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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac

Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.

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Mapping the body

These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.

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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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  • Astrological chart (?). Woodcut (?).
  • Astrology: an astrological chart, with the signs of the Zodiac pointing to the countries and parts of the body they influence. Coloured process print, 1918, after H. Brooks, 1906.
  • Astrology chart: table to indicate lucky and unlucky periods, as well as the chances of undertakings. Chromolithograph.
  • Hindi Manuscript 341, folio 4a
  • Hindi Manuscript 240, folio 6a
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • Tibetan cosmological amulet for protection against diseases. Gouache painting, Tibet.
  • Volvelle from 'Clavis astrologiae elimata'
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