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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Mona Lisa (detail) is a 16th century painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the most famous paintings in the world, mainly due to its outspoken gaze.

"Nana" by Édouard Manet, see Venus in the 19th century

Hollywood is iconic for modern mythology

Josephine Baker dancing the charleston at the Folies Bergère in Paris for La Revue nègre in 1926. Notice the art deco background.
(Photo by Walery)

"Je est un autre" [I is another] --Arthur Rimbaud. (illustration blackface).

The arts

• Diablerie
• Farnese Collection
• Infrathin
• Death of the avant-garde
• Genre theory, corpus and tautology
• Timeline of surrealism and dada
• Faultlines in 20th century art
• Karlheinz Stockhausen on 9/11
• The Loves of the Gods

Literature

• Antifeminist literature of the Middle Ages
• Facetiae
• Cult poetry
• The Characters
• Reflections on the Novel
• The Romantic Agony
• Thematic literary criticism
• Underground literature

Visual arts

• Pretexts for prurience in art
• Painting within a painting
• Surrealist photography
• Eve Babitz
• Imaginary Prisons

Philosophy

• Language is a virus
• The Metaphysics of Sexual Love
• Moral lesson
• Volksgeist

Morality

• Beneficial side effects of censorship
• Do what thou wilt
• Du Fétichisme dans l’amour
• Machlosophy
• Mad emperors of Rome
• Nothing is true, everything is permitted
• Sittengeschichte
• Venus Caelestis and Venus Naturalis
• War of the sexes

Cinema

• Experiments with cinematic time
• Moviedrome
• World cinema classics

Narratology

• Eros and Thanatos
• Power of Women
• Loves of Zeus
• Fictional portrayals of psychopaths

Music

• Burundi beat
• Paradise Garage classics
• Heavy breathing in music
• World music classics

Categories;

• Category:Canon
• Category:WMC
• Category:World Cinema Classics
• Category:Icons of erotic art

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