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Still[1] from Le gai savoir by Godard. This[2] is a similar...

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:28:11 -0400

Still[1] from Le gai savoir by Godard. This[2] is a similar still from that same film, depicting Freudo-Marxism. I’ve never seen the film, I’m curious where these nudes are featured in the film. Who is the blonde one, who is the brunette?

Via nosex.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Wilhelm Reich (II). Here...

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:40:18 -0400

I’ve always had a soft spot for Wilhelm Reich (II).

Here is the cover of Der Sexuelle Kampf der Jugend.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Wilhelm Reich, or rather,...

Sat, 25 May 2013 07:27:00 -0400

I’ve always had a soft spot for Wilhelm Reich, or rather, I’ve had a soft spot for Reich since seeing Sweet Movie (1974).

Here is the cover of Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis (Dialektischer Materialismus und Psychoanalyse, 1929), the first text of Freudo-Marxism.

I watched The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) by Terry...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:03:36 -0400

I watched The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) by Terry Gilliam for the first time (everything up until and including the Vulcan and Venus scene).

I was particularly impressed with the mind–body problem scene of Robin Williams as King of the Moon.

Also, during the Sultan’s harem scene, did anyone notice that Gilliam reinterpreted Grand Bath at Bursa (above) by Jean-Léon Gérôme?

Frontispiece from «Essai Historique, Philosophique et...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:33:24 -0400

Frontispiece from «Essai Historique, Philosophique et Pittoresque sur les Danses des Morts» by Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois.

Found while researching Félicien Rops frontispiece in Baudelaire’s ‘Les Épaves’.

Uncredited photo of woman in Japanese bondage from the article...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:09:01 -0400

Uncredited photo of woman in Japanese bondage from the article “Scholars in Bondage”[1] , an essay by Camille Paglia published yesterday, May 20 in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

orsola-puecher: SPACE INVADERS Arcade Games [1980] [ Spara con...

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:42:42 -0400

orsola-puecher:

SPACE INVADERS Arcade Games [1980]

[ Spara con Barra Spaziatrice ———> sposta con > & < ]

The Conjurer by Bosch I love the expression on the face of the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:54:09 -0400

The Conjurer by Bosch

I love the expression on the face of the fool who is being robbed while trying to figure out where the ball is. Also, there is something wrong with the horizon and/or perspective which works quite well for me.

Come unto These Yellow Sands, is a 1842 painting by Richard...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:41:46 -0400

Come unto These Yellow Sands, is a 1842 painting by Richard Dadd and a 1985 radio play based on Richard Dadd’s life, written by Angela Carter.

The title is a reference to Ariel’s Song from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Dr. Krackq, Dr. Puff and Dr. Hahblle are the three protagonists...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:09:28 -0400

Dr. Krackq, Dr. Puff and Dr. Hahblle are the three protagonists of Grandville’s Un autre monde, in which they explore a parallel world. They call themselves néo-dieux (Neo-Gods), a kind ofdemiurges, as one source describes them.

Above[1] is their portrait, I’ve been unable to determine who is who. Presumably, the one in the middle is Puff, since the caption reads: “Le Dieu Puff fit les deux autres néo-dieux à son image.”

Here[2] are their signatures, and here[3] is their tomb.

Title page of Un autre monde by Grandville (1803 – 1847). The...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:13:00 -0400

Title page of Un autre monde by Grandville (1803 – 1847).

The subtitle reads

transformations - visions - incarnations - ascensions - locomotions - explorations - pérégrinations excursions - stations

cosmogonies - fantasmagories - rêveries - folâtreries facéties - lubies

métamorphoses - zoomorphoses

lithomorphoses - métempsycoses - apothéoses

et autres choses.

See my two recent posts on this chef-d’œuvre: Grandville as the sorcerer-priest of commodity fetishism and There is another world, but it is in this one.

Detail from the Altarpiece, The Last Judgment. Vienna (central...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:05:52 -0400

Detail from the Altarpiece, The Last Judgment. Vienna (central panel, bottom right of the page).

From this page[1], an HTML-version of the book The Pictorial Language of Hieronymus Bosch by Clement A. Wertheim Aymes.

Ascent of the Blessed is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made after...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:20:37 -0400

Ascent of the Blessed is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made after 1490. It is currently in the Palazzo Ducale, in Venice, Italy.

This painting is part of a polyptych of four panels entitled Visions of the Hereafter.

It depicts a tunnel of light and spiritual figures, often described in reports of near-death experiences.

See light at the end of the tunnel.

Detail of La Tentation de St Antoine, ornée de figures et de...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:15:57 -0400

Detail of La Tentation de St Antoine, ornée de figures et de musique[1], engraving by Antoine Borel after François-Rolland Elluin.

The Kreutzer Sonata[1] (1901) is a painting by French...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:01:00 -0400

The Kreutzer Sonata[1] (1901) is a painting by French painter René-Xavier Prinet based on The Kreutzer Sonata (1889). It shows a violinist, overcome with passion, breaking off his performance to embrace his female accompanist. The painting was used for years in the Tabu by Dana perfume ads.

See also The Awakening Conscience, another painting on the aphrodisiac powers of music, or so it would seem.

Charles au jersey rayé (portrait of Evenepoel’s son,...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:18:00 -0400

Charles au jersey rayé (portrait of Evenepoel’s son, c.1898) is a painting by Henri Evenepoel, in the collection of the King Baudouin Foundation.

Series of photo booth images of Guillaume Apollinaire and André...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:36:23 -0400

Series of photo booth images of Guillaume Apollinaire and André Rouveyre

Via angeheurtebise

Detail of the May 1917 “Théatre du Chatelet”-...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:08:45 -0400

Detail of the May 1917 “Théatre du Chatelet”- publication that presents Diaghilev’s “Ballets Russes” in Paris in which the term surrealism is coined.

the May 1917 “Théatre du Chatelet”- publication that...

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:43:44 -0400

the May 1917 “Théatre du Chatelet”- publication that presents Diaghilev’s “Ballets Russes” in Paris

A Th. Dostoiewski[1] Félix Vallotton does Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wed, 08 May 2013 05:34:54 -0400

A Th. Dostoiewski [1]

Félix Vallotton does Fyodor Dostoyevsky