Category Archives: Outriders
Dress-down Friday: Valeska Gert
Gert was pathologically unable to conform to any larger social grouping than that found within her own eccentric outfits.
Dress-down Friday: Valeska Gert
Gert was pathologically unable to conform to any larger social grouping than that found within her own eccentric outfits.
Laure Albin-Guillot | micrography
The French photographer’s experiments in micrography revealed tiny terrains of wonder and beauty.
Laure Albin-Guillot | micrography
The French photographer’s experiments in micrography revealed tiny terrains of wonder and beauty.
Dress-down Friday: Dorelia McNeill
“Dorelia and Augustus were seen as representing the principle of living through your ideas, not merely conveying them to canvas or on paper.”
Dress-down Friday: Dorelia McNeill
“Dorelia and Augustus were seen as representing the principle of living through your ideas, not merely conveying them to canvas or on paper.”
Georgina Berkeley | photomontage
This English noblewoman’s methods of incorporating fragments of photographs into beguilingly strange compositions, which she practised around the late 1860s, prefigured Surrealist collage by about 60 years.
Georgina Berkeley | photomontage
This English noblewoman’s methods of incorporating fragments of photographs into beguilingly strange compositions, which she practised around the late 1860s, prefigured Surrealist collage by about 60 years.
Aimless Walk
Alexander Hammid’s film follows an unidentified man through Prague, although the camera is largely disengaged from the expected multitudes and monuments, instead following this enigmatic flaneur to the liminal spaces of the city.
Aimless Walk
Alexander Hammid’s film follows an unidentified man through Prague, although the camera is largely disengaged from the expected multitudes and monuments, instead following this enigmatic flaneur to the liminal spaces of the city.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
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.
Lichtspiel
It was a meeting with French Dadaist Philippe Soupault in Berlin’s Romanisches Café in the early 1920s which helped Walter Ruttmann synthesize art and music into cinema.
Lichtspiel
It was a meeting with French Dadaist Philippe Soupault in Berlin’s Romanisches Café in the early 1920s which helped Walter Ruttmann synthesize art and music into cinema.
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.”
Spectres of Artaud
As with the Reina Sofia’s Roussel survey, ‘Spectres of Artaud. Language and the Arts around 1952′ acknowledges a figure whose influence ranged far beyond the literary, reaching into performance, music, visual arts and cinema.
Spectres of Artaud
As with the Reina Sofia’s Roussel survey, ‘Spectres of Artaud. Language and the Arts around 1952′ acknowledges a figure whose influence ranged far beyond the literary, reaching into performance, music, visual arts and cinema.
Benevolent deity (repost)
Rolfe became the archetype of a semi-forgotten literary character, stuffed, labelled and musty in the glass cases of the antiquarian, lauded by a small but fervent group of admirers. It is no coincidence that his three major biographers to date have been bibliophiles.
Benevolent deity (repost)
Rolfe became the archetype of a semi-forgotten literary character, stuffed, labelled and musty in the glass cases of the antiquarian, lauded by a small but fervent group of admirers. It is no coincidence that his three major biographers to date have been bibliophiles.
Pages: Bohemian Paris (repost)
Bohemian Paris is one of those books so stuffed with ideas and names and references and cross-references and things you’re just dying to look up that it almost induces a state of neurasthenic overload in the reader (well, it did in this reader).
Pages: Bohemian Paris (repost)
Bohemian Paris is one of those books so stuffed with ideas and names and references and cross-references and things you’re just dying to look up that it almost induces a state of neurasthenic overload in the reader (well, it did in this reader).
Always yes (repost)
If you’re wearing a bra while reading this (and you know what? you don’t have to tell me – Strange Flowers’ Market Research department respects boundaries)…anyway, if you’re wearing a bra as opposed to, oh, a whalebone corset, you should thank Caresse Crosby.
Always yes (repost)
If you’re wearing a bra while reading this (and you know what? you don’t have to tell me – Strange Flowers’ Market Research department respects boundaries)…anyway, if you’re wearing a bra as opposed to, oh, a whalebone corset, you should thank Caresse Crosby.
The King of Redonda (repost)
M.P. Shiel is the unlikely answer to an improbable question: what links 1890s Decadence with 20th century science fiction? The answer is a West Indian who moved in Bohemian circles in London and claimed kingship of a guano-rich Caribbean outcrop.
The King of Redonda (repost)
M.P. Shiel is the unlikely answer to an improbable question: what links 1890s Decadence with 20th century science fiction? The answer is a West Indian who moved in Bohemian circles in London and claimed kingship of a guano-rich Caribbean outcrop.
Venus as a boy (repost)
Though her business card proclaimed her a “man of letters”, Rachilde was the only female author of note among the Decadents but arguably the one who pushed their preoccupation with gender meddling the furthest.
Venus as a boy (repost)
Though her business card proclaimed her a “man of letters”, Rachilde was the only female author of note among the Decadents but arguably the one who pushed their preoccupation with gender meddling the furthest.
Ubu unleashed (repost)
The violent cultural disruptions dotted like bonfires across the landscape of the 20th century — Dadaism, Surrealism, Theatre of Cruelty, Absurdism and Situationism — were lit at the moment when Firmin Gémier uttered the first word of the play: merdre.
Ubu unleashed (repost)
The violent cultural disruptions dotted like bonfires across the landscape of the 20th century — Dadaism, Surrealism, Theatre of Cruelty, Absurdism and Situationism — were lit at the moment when Firmin Gémier uttered the first word of the play: merdre.
Franziska zu Reventlow | artworks
The fragments of her artistic output which survive are a modest yet intriguing glimpse into a highly unconventional life.
Franziska zu Reventlow | artworks
The fragments of her artistic output which survive are a modest yet intriguing glimpse into a highly unconventional life.
Pearls: Arthur Rimbaud
“Let strange flowers burst forth…”
Scenes from a pataphysical life
“Depending on one’s tastes, inclinations, and social situation, the 1890s were either the Belle Époque, a virile culmination of French culture promising a yet more glorious future; or the fin-de-siècle, the last gasp of an enfeebled civilization on the verge of extinction.”
Scenes from a pataphysical life
“Depending on one’s tastes, inclinations, and social situation, the 1890s were either the Belle Époque, a virile culmination of French culture promising a yet more glorious future; or the fin-de-siècle, the last gasp of an enfeebled civilization on the verge of extinction.”
Hester’s last ride
“The young missionary took a wrong turn in the dim light…The first thing he saw was a pile of bones with a skull on top, a lighted taper flickering through each eye socket, grinning at him amidst the shadows of plants and trees…”
Hester’s last ride
“The young missionary took a wrong turn in the dim light…The first thing he saw was a pile of bones with a skull on top, a lighted taper flickering through each eye socket, grinning at him amidst the shadows of plants and trees…”
