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  • Ce soir je sors... : ou alors demain plutôt. Pfff! Tu as déjà  dit ça hier / Ligne Azur.
  • A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • Ce soir je sors... : ou alors demain plutôt. Pfff! Tu as déjà  dit ça hier / Ligne Azur.
  • Besoin de sexe quand ça ne va pas? : dans ces moments-là, multiplier les rencontres en zappant la capote ne résout rien... : déprime, solitude: le préservatif te protège aussi quand tu es plus vulnérable / SNEG association.
  • A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • Five mugshots of gay men of different ages with brief descriptions of the freedom of being single; an advertisement by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A crowd of people sitting in the sun with a tear down the middle to reveal a black triangular cavity; representing the effects of the marginalisation of people with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Enrico Delmastro, ca. 1995.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients receiving women visitors, but a black soldier has no visitor. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Besoin de sexe quand ça ne va pas? : dans ces moments-là, multiplier les rencontres en zappant la capote ne résout rien... : déprime, solitude: le préservatif te protège aussi quand tu es plus vulnérable / SNEG association.
  • Hands grabbing other hands between the words 'SIDA' (AIDS) and 'solitaire' (lonely) within a starry universe with earth beyond, suggesting the loneliness of having AIDS. Silk screen print by Pierre Bernard, Atelier de Création Graphique - Grapus.
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Catalogue

  • view Considerações sobre a nostalgia : these que foi apresentada á Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, e sustentada em 11 de dezembro de 1844 / por Joaquim Manoel de Macedo.
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    Considerações sobre a nostalgia : these que foi apresentada á Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, e sustentada em 11 de dezembro de 1844 / por Joaquim Manoel de Macedo.

    Macedo, Joaquim Manuel de, 1820-1882 | Date: 1844
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    Loneliness in philosophy, psychology, and literature / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic.

    Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare | Date: 2012
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    Alone.

    | Date: 1964
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    Lonely : learning to live with solitude / Emily White.

    White, Emily, 1980- | Date: 2011
  • view Hands grabbing other hands between the words 'SIDA' (AIDS) and 'solitaire' (lonely) within a starry universe with earth beyond, suggesting the loneliness of having AIDS. Silk screen print by Pierre Bernard, Atelier de Création Graphique - Grapus.
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    Hands grabbing other hands between the words 'SIDA' (AIDS) and 'solitaire' (lonely) within a starry universe with earth beyond, suggesting the loneliness of having AIDS. Silk screen print by Pierre Bernard, Atelier de Création Graphique - Grapus.

    Bernard, Pierre, 1942- | Date: [19]93] | Reference: 672801i
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