Sunflowers
1887 · National Gallery, London
Some blooms burst with petals and others have gone to seed, all yellow on yellow, painted to decorate the house where Gauguin was to come.
★ 8.2
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On the Genealogy of Morals
1887 · 208 pages
Guilt began as unpaid debt, Nietzsche argues, and conscience is cruelty turned inward for want of anyone else to hurt. Three essays dig up where good and evil came from.
★ 7.3
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
1887 · 444 pages
Ibarra returns from Europe to build a school and finds the friars who destroyed his father waiting. Spain banned the book, Filipinos smuggled it in anyway, and Rizal faced a firing squad.
★ 6.5
Breakfast
1887 · Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo
A family at breakfast, posed so stiffly in the glare that the comfortable room turns faintly airless. Every surface is built from dots.
★ 5.2
Genealogy of Morals · 1887
Requiem · 1887