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“Old time” and “old timey” are terms used to describe stereotypical images and representations from the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States, generally those corresponding to a generation before or after the turn of the 20th century.

Sentimental longing for a near past prompted several artists to make a revival of those images, a remake of an earlier era.

They worshipped certain qualities representative of the diversity of artistic concerns emerging during this period; but the new lines of research find renewed expressions in contemporary artistic practices: those practices …