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Oddest Book Title of the Year shortlist announced.
Seaweed, Shopping Carts and the Spoon Boxes of Daghestan.

Giulio Artistide Sartorio is generally counted as one of the Italian Symbolists, along with painters such as Giovanni Segantini. He’s also one of the few notable artists of the period to have worked as a film director.
I’ve been fascinated by the curiously erotic academic style of Sartorio’s early work for years but these paintings rarely [...]