About this collection
The Art & Graphics collection combines contemporary and historical environmental art, as well as comics and illustrations. The Anthropocene Milestones comic series illustrates 30 eight-panel comic strips depicting items as diverse as the spinning jenny, the scanning tunneling microscope, and the telephone, and events as far apart in time as the 40,800-year-old Altamira cave drawings and the Apollo mission of 1968. All these represent important milestones that have paved the way to a new geological “age of humans.” This collection also includes environmentally relevant early modern broadsheets from the 16th century digitized by the Bavarian State Library. Art & Graphics will soon feature profiles of environmental artist and their art, graphic novels on the human-environment relationship, and environmental photography.
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X-Rays Thoms, René |
1895 |
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Hertz: Electromagnetic Waves Kindli, Csenge |
1886 |
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Linotype Reh, Eric |
1884 |
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Mining Wang, Ruohan |
1880 |
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Altamira Cave Gruber, Marcus |
1879 |
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Telephone Sommerfeldt, Anders Emil |
1861 |
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The Bessemer Process Zahrádková, Klára |
1856 |
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Shaft Drill Lichtenwagner, Hans |
1800 |
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Theodolite Koppelkamm, Leo |
1800 |
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Solar Energy Artz, Sophie |
1767 |
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The Spinning Jenny Bassen, Milena |
1764 |
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"Presenting Wild Animals: Two Sea Lions, a White Whale-bear and a Long-tailed Monkey," June 1754 | 1754 |
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"History of Sea Creatures," 1753 | 1753 |
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"Graphic Story of Elephants According to Their Accomplishments," 1746 | 1746 |
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The Steam Engine Chassignet, Marina Porras |
1700 |