Herbert List’s Beautiful Young Men
| Photographic allure from the Thirties at Slate.
Month: November 2007
The art of Ron Pippin
left: Museum Box #1; right: Arch Angel (no dates).
Raccoon Kit With Lenses (no date).
• Kimberley Brooks interview
• Ron Pippin at Obsolete
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Custom creatures
• Polly Morgan, fine art taxidermist
• The sculpture of Christopher Conte
• Pierre Matter’s cyborg sculpture
• Cryptozoology
• Insect Lab
• The art of Jessica Joslin
• The Museum of Fantastic Specimens
Exterface
Situla—Fassbinder Homage.
Two samples from a Querelle-themed series based on Fassbinder’s film of Genet’s erotic fantasy. Exterface is Julien and Stéphane in Paris whose luscious, saturated tableaux make them seem a contemporary equivalent of James Bidgood, while the picture below may have been referring to the poster Andy Warhol produced for Querelle.
Via MiamiGlen.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Penguin Labyrinths and the Thief’s Journal
• James Bidgood
• Un Chant d’Amour by Jean Genet
Decorated Russian book covers
left: Histoire du Livre LES EMAUX BYZANTINS (“Byzantine Enamels”) AW Zwenigorodskoi, 1898.
right: PUTESHESTVIE TSESAREVICHA NA VOSTOK (“Journey to the Orient of Tsarevich Nicolas II”), 1893–1897.
Beautiful and very expensive rare books at Russianartandbooks.com.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The book covers archive
Dada Dolls
“Callie” and “Frank” by artist Elaine Benjamin, both of whom are for sale and come with their own biographical epiphanies.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Dada at MoMA