October
13
/ 2022
How do we make sense of old and ancient artworks depicting laptops with USB ports, smartphones, spaceships, astronaut suits, and wrist watches? Historians say it is easy and that every one of these seemingly bizarre and puzzling images have a perfectly logical explanation! [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"100221","attributes":{"alt":"A Native American using an iPhone? Or, an indigenous person curious about a mirror brought by the Europeans? Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield by Umberto Romano, 1937 depicts the English colonist's arrival in 1636 at what was to become Springfield. Credit: U.S POSTAL SERVICE","class":"media-image","height":"291","style":"width: 610px; height: 291px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] A Native American using an iPhone? Or, an indigenous person curious about a mirror brought by the Europeans? Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield by Umberto Romano
