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In which the marvellous Hedi Slimane captures dancer Oscar Nilsson resting during a performance involving a percussive score tapped out by someone wearing a bear’s head. (Video here and here.) There’s probably a joke to be made there about bears and twinks but you won’t find me attempting it.
The picture below is from a fishnets [...]

One of a series of stunning ads by Y&R of Chicago for the River North Chicago Dance Company which give the old “body as machine” a contemporary and rather erotic twist. (I would have credited the photographer but the ad agency site is the usual Flash interface which refuses to work in any of [...]

Les Chansons de Bilitis (1922).

I’ve posted examples of George Barbier’s Art Deco drawings before but online examples of his work outside the world of fashion illustration have been difficult to find. The Bunka Women’s University Library corrects that with a collection of high-quality scans which include a book about the artist, George Barbier, Étude Critique [...]

The Juggler Sun (1895).
On the shortest day of the year it seems fitting to post a picture of the sun and hope that in 2009 the clouds clear long enough for us Brits to see more than a month of it. Claude Fayette Bragdon’s poster is a remarkably stylised work for 1895 and might [...]

The Peacock (no date).
Dancer Ruth St Denis (1879–1968) strikes Art Nouveau poses in the New York Public Library’s Denishawn Collection, now at Flickr.

Radha (1904).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Peacocks
• Rene Beauclair
• Elizabetes Iela 10b, Riga
• The Maison Lavirotte
• Whistler’s Peacock Room
• Beardsley’s Salomé
• The art of Hernan Gimenez
• Images of Nijinsky

Jacob, a dancer with the Canadian National Ballet, photographed by Toxicboy.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Chris Nash
• Peter Reed and Salomé After Dark
• Felix D’Eon
• Dancers by John Andresen
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953

Previous posts about gay or homoerotic art or artists.

• The recurrent pose #32

• Le livre blanc by Jean Cocteau

• Michelangelo’s Dream

• Sherbert and Sodomy

• The art of Yannis Tsarouchis, 1910–1989

• Ecce homo

• Joseph Cavalieri’s stained glass

• Eros: From Hesiod’s Theogony to Late Antiquity

• The end of Orpheus

• The art of Robert Sherer

• The art of [...]

Dancer Javier de Frutos (1998).
Dance photography by Chris Nash.

Bread—Bedlam Dance Company.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Peter Reed and Salomé After Dark
• Felix D’Eon
• Dancers by John Andresen
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953

Peter Reed from a 1977 photo shoot for After Dark magazine. The Flickr page this is from also has photos of the dancer by Robert Mapplethorpe, while the After Dark pools here have a wealth of scanned material ranging from the sexy to the iniquitous, with hair and fashion crimes aplenty.

David Meyer in Salomé.
And [...]

Previous posts about illustrators.

• Frans De Geetere’s illustrated Maldoror

• Jugend, 1897

• The art of Melchior Lechter, 1865–1937

• Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration

• Jugend, 1896

• Keim & Czeschka’s Nibelungen

• Les Papillons, métamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l’air

• Jugend Magazine revisited

• Heinrich Vogeler’s illustrated Wilde

• Peter Edwards times two

• Sinister silhouettes

• More science fiction covers

• The art of [...]

Nijinski I (2006).
More photographs and montages by Hernan Gimenez at his ArtsCad pages. Via Fabulon.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The art of Andrey Avinoff, 1884–1949
• The Decorative Age
• Images of Nijinsky

Dancer by Felix D’Eon at his Flickr pages. His artwork based on the photos, including some gay erotica, can be seen at his website.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Dancers by John Andresen
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953

Man Emerging from a Tree Stump (no date).
Yet another artist I’d be unlikely to have come across had it not been for the web. Andrey Avinoff’s art manages to be both mystical and homoerotic in equal measure and there’s a good selection of his paintings and drawings to be found in a collection at the [...]

We tend to think of cinema as quintessentially 20th century and a modern medium. But the modern medium was born in the 19th century, of course, and the heyday of the Silent Age (the Twenties) was closer to the fin de siècle Decadence (mid-1880s to the late-1890s) than we are now to the 1970s. This [...]

Andreas and Paulo photographed by John Andresen.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953
• John Andresen

Continuing the George Barbier theme from the Nijinsky post, his work reminded me I’d had Artdecoblog bookmarked for some time. Searching there turned up some more of his pictures including this mythological scene done in his post-Beardsley style. The men in the picture below are hilariously effete for rugby players, they look more like a [...]

I have an abiding fascination with the Ballet Russes, Sergei Diaghilev’s company which electrified the art world from 1909 up to the impressario’s death in 1929. One of the reasons for this—aside from the obvious gay dimension and the extraordinary roster of talent involved—is probably Diaghilev’s success in carrying the Symbolist impulses of the fin [...]