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I’m working against a deadline this week so I’ll apologise in advance if posts tend to be brief.<\/p>\n
I’ve had this picture hanging around for a couple of months, something that good friend Thom sent me (thanks Thom!) to add to the apparently limitless catalogue of Salom\u00e9-related pictures. The subject is everyone’s favourite fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> aristocrat Robert de Montesquiou\u2014eccentric poet, waspish aesthete and chiroptophile\u2014posing as the head of John the Baptist in a cyanotype from circa 1885 which may be embellished in the Comte’s own hand.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Michelangelo writes to inform me of a feature-length Super-8 film on the Salom\u00e9 theme by Mexican filmmaker T\u00e9o Hernandez<\/a> (1939\u20131993) which will receive a screening at the Pleasure Dome, Toronto, in February. Sound very Jarmanesque so naturally I’d love to see it. Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Previously on { feuilleton } I’m working against a deadline this week so I’ll apologise in advance if posts tend to be brief. I’ve had this picture hanging around for a couple of months, something that good friend Thom sent me (thanks Thom!) to add to the apparently limitless catalogue of Salom\u00e9-related pictures. The subject is everyone’s favourite fin de … Continue reading “La t\u00eate de Robert”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,5,12],"tags":[136,2042,123,4520],"class_list":["post-13026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-gay","category-photography","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-robert-de-montesquiou","tag-salome","tag-teo-hernandez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3o6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u2022 Philippe Jullian, connoisseur of the exotic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"