Autumn and winter is all about layering so here’s some suggestions from ‘Inflate‘, a Dazed & Confused feature. Styling by Robbie Spencer, photography by Anthony Maule. Via Homotography.
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Fashion
Richard de Chazal’s Zodiac
top left: Scorpio; top right: Gemini.
bottom left: Cancer; bottom right: Libra.
Following the zodiac sets from August, here’s a distinctly homoerotic variation on the theme by Australian photographer and fashion designer Richard de Chazal. See the full set here. Also on his site is a selection of his erotic photography which may interest some of the visitors who’ve been arriving here all week from porn site Queerclick. The small size of the photos should be taken as an encouragement to buy Mr De Chazal’s book. Via Chateau Thombeau.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Mucha’s Zodiac
• Owen Wood’s Zodiac
• Palladini’s Zodiac
• The Major Arcana by Jak Flash
Weekend links 31
One of a series of illustrations by Vera Bock for A Ring and a Riddle (1944) by M.Ilin and E. Segal. Via A Journey Round My Skull.
• The Creator of Devotion: Photos from a Vogue Hommes Japan feature by Matthew Stone. And also here.
• Dressing For Pleasure: Jonny Trunk gets out the rubber gear. Related: King of Kinky.
• Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) is having a show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
• Hackney Dissenting Academy #1: Throbbing Gristle, Iain Sinclair & Alan Moore.
• Out Of The Flesh (1984) by Chakk. A great single never reissued on CD.
• Photographer Charles Gatewood remembers William Burroughs.
The Endless Mural. Follow links here to have a play around.
• Vinyl record sales are at the top of a four-year sales trend.
• Can explosions move faster than the speed of light?
• Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Car is reborn.
• Maximus Clarke talks with William Gibson.
• Why Stephen Fry loves Wagner.
• Alice Coltrane in concert, Warsaw, 1987: Harp solo | Impressions | Lonnie’s Lament | A Love Supreme.
The Art Nouveau dance goes on forever
Catalogue for Art Nouveau Revival 1900 . 1933 . 1966 . 1974. Peacock feather not included.
Regular readers may recall my mention of the Musée d’Orsay exhibition Art Nouveau Revival which was launched late last year. I didn’t get to see the exhibition, unfortunately, but this week I finally ordered a copy of the catalogue, an expensive cloth-bound volume with essays (in French) by Philippe Thiébaut, Stephen Calloway, Irene de Guttry, Thierry Taittinger and Philippe Thieryre. Despite the ruinous postal charges incurred by the book’s weight this was worth every euro, it being the kind of polymorphous production which in solipsistic moments one can choose to believe was created solely for your own benefit.
Aubrey again, album covers from 1974.
Much of the subject matter has been explored here in various small ways, with the curators following the influence of Art Nouveau through Surrealism (mainly Dalí) to the psychedelic art of the 1960s and on into the Pop Nouveau (for want of a better term) which flourished in the first half of the 1970s. Among the familiar Aubrey Beardsley graphics and psychedelic posters there are also some pleasantly surprising inclusions, including illustrations by Philippe Jullian (yes, I’m still intending on writing about him at some point), yet more Beardsley album covers, film posters, and even some of the sillier films of the late-60s such as Casino Royale. Being a French exhibition there’s a section devoted to comic strips which includes work by Moebius, Philippe Druillet and Guido Crepax.
Sex and LSD, a spread from Playboy, 1967.
It’s common to see parallels drawn between the 1890s and the 1960s but the strange blooms of vulgarised fin de siècle style which burgeoned in the wake of psychedelia are seldom given much attention. One of the great things about this catalogue is the amount of ephemera the curators chose to include such as magazine ads and trend-chasing album sleeves. It was precisely this blend of 1890s + 1960s + 1970s I sought to capture in my recent cover for Dodgem Logic. As I said, it’s an expensive book but for anyone drawn to this aesthetic hothouse it’s also an essential purchase. Art Nouveau Revival can be ordered direct from the museum shop. Further samples follow.
Missoni by Kenneth Anger
I did have another Ludwig post planned for today but that’s been set aside for a different kind of fabulosity following the news that Kenneth Anger has made a new film. Italian fashion house Missoni commissioned Anger to make a short promo for their Fall/Winter collection and you can see the delirious results in high-resolution here. The film features Missoni family members peering out from among the layered moons and stars, with titles by Arthur magazine’s Psychedelic Healing Visions Correspondent, Alia Penner.
“I’m fascinated by Kenneth Anger’s use of colour and his ability to transform a film into a three-dimensional texture, a fabric of images in movement,” explained Angela Missoni. This is how she introduced her decision to entrust the Missoni F/W 2011 campaign to one of America’s most famous authors and directors of avant-garde cinema.
Anger—a hyperactive octogenarian who loves working in the wee hours of the night and at dawn using sophisticated instruments such as the RED digital camera that has the characteristics of a classic 35 mm camera—flew in from Los Angeles to film the campaign in Sumirago that involved all the members of the great Missoni family. They are the stars of this campaign that was conceived as a series of superimposed and overlapping portraits. (More.)
Via Arthur!
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Anger in London
• Arabesque for Kenneth Anger by Marie Menken
• Edmund Teske
• Kenneth Anger on DVD again
• Mouse Heaven by Kenneth Anger
• The Man We Want to Hang by Kenneth Anger
• Relighting the Magick Lantern
• Kenneth Anger on DVD…finally