Lubok

Kasimir Malevich - Harvest - 1912

Nikolay Karahan - Women's Brigade - Early 1930s

via Соцреализм

Vladimir Lebedev - Untitled - ??
via Vision

Dulcinea del Toboso

Francis Picabia - L'Espagnole - 1938

Natalia Goncharova - Spanish Women Polyptych - 1923-24

Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Olga Khokhlova with Mantilla - 1917

Henri Matisse - Espagnole à la mantille - 1925

The Depths

"Then don’t weep for the horrors of war 
Before the war we had only the surface 
Of the earth and the seas 
After it we’ll have the depths 
Subterranean and aerial space..." 
Guillaume Appolinaire, War, 1915

Diego Rivera - The Manufacture of Poisonous Gas Bombs 

Sketch - Detroit Industry Mural - 1932

via Daoud Martin

Alexander Rodchenko - Costume for The Bedbug, pt. 2 - 1929

Leon Bibel - Family with Gas Masks - 1936

via Third Organ

Building Material for an Edifice

“If metaphysics claims to he made up of concepts which were ours before its advent, if it consists in an ingenious arrangement of pre-existing ideas which we utilize as building material for an edifice, if, in short, it is anything else but the constant expansion of our mind, the ever-renewed effort to transcend our actual ideas and perhaps also our elementary logic, it is but too evident that, like all the works of pure understanding, it becomes artificial.” 
Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics, 1903

Stefan Jasienski – Miss Metrópolis - 1931

Joseph Astor - Philip Johnson wearing the PPB tower as a hat - Vanity Fair - 1996

Unknown Photographer - Costumes at the Arts Ball - Hotel Astor - 1931

via Dwell

Alexander Rodchenko - Sketch for a costume for "The Sixth Part of The World" - 1931

via +acne