Category Archives: Born this day
Serge Lifar | Icare
These paintings are a rare attempt to capture the sensation of dance from someone who’d actually been there.
Serge Lifar | Icare
These paintings are a rare attempt to capture the sensation of dance from someone who’d actually been there.
Elisàr von Kupffer | paintings
The ritualistic poses of Kupffer’s ephebes suggest not so much an orgy as a clothes-optional Rosicrucian jamboree.
Elisàr von Kupffer | paintings
The ritualistic poses of Kupffer’s ephebes suggest not so much an orgy as a clothes-optional Rosicrucian jamboree.
Ancient dreams and antique corruptions
“She became, in a sense, the symbolic deity of indestructible lust, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, of accursed Beauty…”
Ancient dreams and antique corruptions
“She became, in a sense, the symbolic deity of indestructible lust, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, of accursed Beauty…”
Pierre Loti | drawings
The Frenchman’s journeys and preoccupations can be read just as readily in these images as in his books.
Pierre Loti | drawings
The Frenchman’s journeys and preoccupations can be read just as readily in these images as in his books.
Places: Quinta da Regaleira
It is the hill-hugging grounds which make this place so special. Stepping through the ornate portal, visitors find themselves in a miraculous micronation of evocative follies, a garden refuge out of the dream of a precocious child.
Places: Quinta da Regaleira
It is the hill-hugging grounds which make this place so special. Stepping through the ornate portal, visitors find themselves in a miraculous micronation of evocative follies, a garden refuge out of the dream of a precocious child.
Doubles: R. H. Benson
“He did not exactly aspire to actual creation, but he certainly nourished the notion that several serious mistakes had resulted from his absence during the events described in the first chapter of Genesis.”
Doubles: R. H. Benson
“He did not exactly aspire to actual creation, but he certainly nourished the notion that several serious mistakes had resulted from his absence during the events described in the first chapter of Genesis.”
Pearls: Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly
JABA breaks it down
Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
One of the most prominent of Paris’s 20th century American expatriates, Barney networked at an Olympian level.
Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
One of the most prominent of Paris’s 20th century American expatriates, Barney networked at an Olympian level.
Pages: Décadence Mandchoue
“He, if such there be, who peruses the following pages may deem that they are from the pen of a depraved, peradventure even if a talented, man…”
Pages: Décadence Mandchoue
“He, if such there be, who peruses the following pages may deem that they are from the pen of a depraved, peradventure even if a talented, man…”
The lemon returns
Lotti Huber danced into existence 100 years ago today…
Fidus | temple designs
Fidus absorbed Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach’s vision of an englightened society turning its back on industry and materialism and re-embracing nature, and transformed it into a religion, going as far as producing several designs for temples.
Fidus | temple designs
Fidus absorbed Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach’s vision of an englightened society turning its back on industry and materialism and re-embracing nature, and transformed it into a religion, going as far as producing several designs for temples.
Rosaleen Norton | artworks
“The phantasms which haunted her imagination and opened doorways to other realms of mythic consciousness, serve as a reminder that there are always greater realities in the universe which we can acknowledge and explore.”
Rosaleen Norton | artworks
“The phantasms which haunted her imagination and opened doorways to other realms of mythic consciousness, serve as a reminder that there are always greater realities in the universe which we can acknowledge and explore.”
some pigeons are more equal than others
An example of Lord Berners-style surrealism rematerialising in the present day…
some pigeons are more equal than others
An example of Lord Berners-style surrealism rematerialising in the present day…
Pearls: Fitz Hugh Ludlow
“Who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state?”
Pearls: Fitz Hugh Ludlow
“Who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state?”
Circles: H.D./Bryher
When you’re mapping the relations of H.D. and Bryher, complication is a given. Their relationship lasted from 1918 to H.D.’s death in 1961 but as the diagram indicates, this was a far from exclusive arrangement.
Circles: H.D./Bryher
When you’re mapping the relations of H.D. and Bryher, complication is a given. Their relationship lasted from 1918 to H.D.’s death in 1961 but as the diagram indicates, this was a far from exclusive arrangement.
Alfred Jarry, fixie pioneer
“Rather more than a simple vehicle, the writing machine was powered by human musculature and fueled by alcohols.”
Alfred Jarry, fixie pioneer
“Rather more than a simple vehicle, the writing machine was powered by human musculature and fueled by alcohols.”
