Affinities A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review

An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review. Gathering a remarkable collection of over 500 public domain images, Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review, the book has been assembled from a vast array of sources: from manuscripts to museum catalogues, ship logs to primers on Victorian magic. The images are arranged in a single captivating sequence which unfurls according to a dreamlike logic, through a play of visual echoes and evolving thematic threads - hatching eggs twin with early Burmese world maps, marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways, and fireworks explode beside deep-sea coral. At once an art book, a sourcebook, and a kaleidoscopic visual poem, Affinities is a unique and enthralling publication that will offer something different on each visit. Its playful and imaginative space invites the reader to transcend familiar categories of epoch, style, or historical theme, and to instead revel in a new world of creative possibilities played out between the images - opening up new connections, ways of seeing, and forms of knowledge. Praise for The Public Domain Review 'An Aladdin's cave of curiosity ... the best thing on the web' Guardian 'A gold mine of fantastic images and stories' The New York Times

ISBN:	9780500025208
Publisher:	Thames and Hudson Ltd
Imprint:	Thames and Hudson
Published date:	26 May 2022
DEWEY:	700
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	368
Weight:	2044g
Height:	223mm
Width:	288mm
Spine width:	38mm

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