"Method of this work: literary montage. I have nothing to say only to show" --Walter Benjamin

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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 - folâtreriesfacéties - 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.

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 - folâtreriesfacéties - 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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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Series of photo booth images of Guillaume Apollinaire and André Rouveyre Via angeheurtebise

Series of photo booth images of Guillaume Apollinaire and André Rouveyre

Via angeheurtebise

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