A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Photography
“February” from Bad Behaviour 2008, a calendar by Australian photographers Ross Brownsdon and Travis de Jonk.
Bad Behaviour 2008 is a collection of fetish inspired images, celebrating the art of fantasy and the expression of alternative desires. These dark, erotic fantasies are created with great sensitivity and detail, making them captivating, beautiful and sexy.
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• February boy
Here we go again… Okay, so it’s not quite the Flandrin pose since he has his head up, but I love Lindsay Lozon’s photography and can use the topical excuse that he has a new book of his work out, All My Boys, which includes this picture.
Previous posts in this series have now been archived to a single page for convenience.
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• The recurrent pose archive
Still from Blowjob by Andy Warhol (1963).
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now opens today at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, and runs until 27 January 2008.
Seduced explores the representation of sex in art through the ages. Featuring over 300 works spanning 2000 years, it brings together Roman sculptures, Indian manuscripts, Japanese prints, Chinese watercolours, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and 19th century photography with modern and contemporary art.
Seduced presents the work of around 70 artists including Nobuyoshi Araki, Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt van Rijn and Andy Warhol among others. Stimulating the mind and the senses, provocative and compelling, Seduced provides the historical and cultural framework to explore the boundaries of acceptability in art. Seduced is curated by Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp and Joanne Bernstein.
• Barbican gallery selection
• Guardian gallery selection
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• The Male Gaze
A great addition to the growing collection of Flandrin-derived poses, courtesy of The Other Andrew. Probably a piece of Fifties physique photography, although it could be a more private example like the Flickr photo in #2.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive
Erwann and Bruz photographed at Rêve d’hommes aka Men of my dreams.