A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Maren writes: “When I saw your recurrent gallery I couldn’t help but think of this photo my partner took of me one weekend here in San Francisco.” Many are the contemporary imitations of the Flandrin pose but this is one of the most accurate I’ve seen for its recapitulation of the details, from the ocean background to the fabric seat. My thanks to Maren for letting me post this!
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive
Le Cadavre Exquis by Yukio Michishita. As featured in The Purple Book: Sensuality & Symbolism in Contemporary Art & Illustration by Angus Hyland & Angharad Lewis.
• ” Like Polo’s magic cities, which in the end all turn out to be Venice, fantasy finally refers us back to reality and the challenge of everyday social engagement.” Jonathan Galassi on The Dreams of Italo Calvino. In the same edition of the NYRB, Anna Somers Cocks on The Coming Death of Venice?
• Mix of the week: Solid Steel Radio Show 7/6/2013 Part 3 + 4: Peter “Look Around You” Serafinowicz compiles 70 minutes of Boards of Canada-inflected ambience.
• “Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.” Alan Moore talks to Peter Bebergal.
The gay rights movement around the world has promoted a basic idea: we want to show society that we are human beings like everyone else. The problem is that the train driver at the Kashirskaya train station doesn’t necessarily think that those few dozen passengers in whose face he closes the doors are a priori inferior and deserve such treatment. He feels that he becomes superior to them by means of using his power over them. This sense of superiority can be trumped only by some higher superiority.
On the Moscow Metro and Being Gay by Dmitry Kuzmin.
• “I went from being a very promising young writer to being completely ignored in two novels.” Madeleine Monson-Rosen on Angela Carter.
• Sequence6, another excellent sampler from Future Sequence: 40 new pieces of music as a free download.
The Arrival on Mars, an illustration from The Ship That Sailed to Mars (1923) by William Timlin.
• At PingMag: An Icon for Everyone: Shoryu Hatoba, Japanese Crest Artist.
• More Japanese weirdness at Sardines Bizarres.
• Larry Nolen on Bruno Schulz.
• Magic Ritual (1976) by Black Renaissance | Magic Fly (1977) by Space | Magic Vox (1981) by Ippu-Do
After a week or so of posts looking back over a century of dance, this brings everything into the present. Eric Paré’s LightSpin used stop-motion photography and twenty-four cameras to capture half a million photos which were then edited into a short video. All of the lighting, which floats around the dancers, is done by hand. Core77 goes into the technical detail, and also has some astonishing jpeg loops from the same sessions.
Paolo Garretto (1933).
I always enjoy the month of June if the weather is decent. This week happens to be very sunny and relatively warm, the first time in years that the month’s weather hasn’t been wet, windy, and even cold. In celebration, here’s some June magazine covers which avoid the usual seasonal imagery. All are from an excellent collection of Fortune cover designs at VTS.
Antonio Petruccelli (1937).
Hans Barschel (1938).
Charles Sheeler (1939).
Salomé: portrait of Tamara Karsavina (1914) by George Barbier.
A slight return to the Russian ballet, and another Barbier portrait. Tamara Karsavina danced lead roles for the Ballets Russes, most notably with Nijinsky in the original performances of The Firebird. The pictures here are from La Tragedie de Salome, a ballet with music by Florent Schmitt, and costumes based on Beardsley’s illustrations by Sergei Sudeikin, another member of the Diaghilev circle.
Tamara Karsavina as Salomé in the Beecham Russian ballet season, 1913.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The Salomé archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• George Barbier’s Nijinsky