Nostalgia
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Artworks recalling memories and meanings from the past in a way that might be painful—the term nostalgia is derived from the Greek words for “return” and “suffering”. 18th- and 19th-century Romantic landscape painters like J.M.W. Turner and John Constable often depicted a mythical countryside, touching on a widespread nostalgic yearning for the pastoral, bountiful rural life thought to have been lost as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Contemporary American artists often wax nostalgic for the America of the 1950s (in search of a simpler, more peaceful time) through a focus on mid-century iconography, such as cars and the open road.
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80s nostalgia - the decade that never ended - Admind
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Why lockdown is making us nostalgic
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Nostalgia Coffee Roasters
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What is liminal space? The nostalgia aesthetic used in the most
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The Nostalgia Aesthetic – Guernica
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What is a song that gives you nostalgia? : NPR
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What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
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New Critical Nostalgia
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Yesterday — Harvard University Press