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Notes on mechanical reproducibility of artworks with regard to Baudelaire and Benjamin

French text:
Il y a dans le monde, et même dans le monde des artistes, des gens qui vont au musée du Louvre, passent rapidement, et sans leur accorder un regard, devant une foule de tableaux très intéressants, quoique de second ordre, et se plantent rêveurs devant un Titien ou un Raphaël, un de ceux que la gravure a le plus popularisés; puis sortent satisfaits, plus d'un se disant: "Je connais mon musée." <p>English translation:
“The world—and even the world of artists—is full of people who can go to the Louvre, walk rapidly, without so much as a glance, past rows of very interesting, though secondary, pictures, to come to a rapturous halt in front of a Titian or Raphael—one of those that would have been most popularized by the engraver’s art; then they will go home happy, not a few saying to themselves, ‘I know my Museum.‘” -- Charles Baudelaire </blockquote> In this excerpt, quoted from the Charles Baudelaire's 1863 The Painter of Modern Life, an essay on Constantin Guys, Charles Baudelaire comments on the fact that works of art have lost their aura (a term I borrow here from Walter Benjamin) because of the technique of engraving. For the first time in history, engraving allowed images of works of art to be mass-popularized in posters and postcards. This essay foreshadows Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. It is precisely this mass-reproducibility of works of art, in two-dimensional (postcards of the Mona Lisa) as well as three-dimensional forms (plastic statues of the Venus de Milo), which has given birth to the concept of kitsch. see also: 1863 - Painter of Modern Life - culture theory - media theory - Walter Benjamin - Charles Baudelaire - reproduction - aura - aesthetics - modernism --Jahsonic 11:18, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Gershon Legman

Gershon Legman's Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (New York: Grove Press, 1968); reprinted in hardcover by Indiana University.

Colin Henry Wilson

Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931) is a British writer. The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988) -- Colin Henry Wilson


Crime and sexual perversion Wilson seeks to establish a link between crime and perversion.

On Sade In his excellent Misfits, Colin Wilson states that Marquis de Sade's philosophy was one of extreme selfishness, mentioning Sade's denial of the existence of benevolence and altruism. Wilson's portrait of Sade is the first well-balanced I encountered, neither villifying (as it was customary during the 19th century) nor exalting him as it was done in the 20th century (see De Beauvoir and Apollinaire). [Sept 2005]

Biographies D.H. Lawrence, Swinburne, James Joyce, Mishima, Henry Miller, Tillich, Koestler, Percy Grainger, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld - Ludwig Wittgenstein - Charlotte Bach


Synopsis The history of human civilization is the history of daydreaming, escapism and imagination and the nature of fiction (tale, drama novel, sexual imagination, sex crimes, ...)

Culture

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Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream, 1883

Culture is an ambiguous term usually signifying high culture. It is my thesis that culture arises from and is made of elements of high culture and low culture. In this sense, culture equals mainstream or popular culture.

This point you made is interesting - I'd agree in that we have to see both, high and low, yet the conclusion - might need a discussion - you might have fun with my articles at de:Literatur and de:Kult (Status). --Olaf Simons 06:21, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, I'd noticed your articles before and enjoyed your work on literature --Jahsonic 09:21, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Pierre Bourdieu and street fashion

When Pierre Bourdieu contends that taste always "trickles down" from the ruling classes he forgets about street fashion, which "trickles up". --Jahsonic 19:42, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

High Renaissance

The High Renaissance (1480s - 1520s) is a rather subjective art term denoting the culmination of the art of the Early Renaissance. Generally counted among High Renaissance artists are Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raphael Sanzio and Leonardo da Vinci.

Also active at this time were Giorgione, Titian and Giovanni Bellini.

By about the 1520s, High Renaissance art gives way to a style known as Mannerism.



Literature

Ergodic literature

Ergodic literature is literature that requires special effort to comprehend or read, perhaps due to a "non linear" structure. Ergodic literature demands an active role of the reader, such that they become "users" who may need to perform complex semiotic operations to construct the reading.

Examples

The März-Verlag

The März-Verlag was a German editing house run by Jörg Schröder, similar in style to Eric Losfeld's Éditions Le Terrain Vague. He was also responsible for the “Melzer Verlag” and the german “Olympia Press”. He went broke in the early or middle eighties. One of his current activieties is a blog for the tageszeitung (taz).

Here are some of the authors he published: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Castaneda, Leonard Cohen, Robert Crumb, Fassbinder, John Giorno, Gerhard Malanga, Kenneth Patchen and lots of others. In the Melzer Verlag he was responsible for the first and only german edition of Ballards “Love and Napalm”. The books had a very distinctive look - yellow with thick black and red types.

List of authors on the index

This is a list of authors whose work has been on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The quantity of the work per author varies from complete works to one title.

Alberto Moravia - Alexandre Dumas fils - Alexandre Dumas - Anatole France - André Gide - Andrew Lang - Honoré de Balzac - Baruch Spinoza - Benedetto Croce] Bishop Berkeley - Blaise Pascal - Casanova - Condillac - Condorcet - d'Alembert - Daniel Defoe - David Hume - De Stael - Denis Diderot - Descartes - Baron d'Holbach - Edward Gibbon - Emanuel Swedenborg - Emile Zola - Erasmus - Ernest Renan - Eugène Sue - Francis Bacon - Gabriele D'Annunzio - George Sand - Gustave Flaubert - Heinrich Heine - Helvétius - Henri Bergson - Honoré de Balzac - Immanuel Kant - Jean Paul Sartre - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - John Calvin - John Milton - John Stuart Mill - Jonathan Swift - Joseph Addison - La Fontaine - La Mettrie - Laurence Stern - Maeterlinck - Malebranche - Michel de Montaigne - Montaigne - Montesquieu - Nicholas Machiavelli - Oliver Goldsmith - Pascal - Pierre Abélard - Rabelais - Rene Descartes - Richard Simon - Richard Steel - Sade - Samuel Richardson - Stendhal - Swedenborg - Thomas Hobbes - Victor Hugo - Voltaire -

Anthology of Black Humor (1940) - André Breton

featured authors:

Jonathan Swift D.-A.-F.de Sade Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Charles Fourier Thomas De Quincey Pierre-François Lacenaire Christian Dietrich Grabbe Petrus Borel Edgar Allan Poe Xavier Forneret Charles Baudelaire Lewis Carroll Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Charles Cros Friedrich Nietzsche Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautréamont) Joris-Karl Huysmans Tristan Corbière Germain Nouveau Arthur Rimbaud Alphonse Allais Jean-Pierre Brisset O. Henry André Gide John Millington Synge Alfred Jarry Raymond Roussel Francis Picabia Guillaume Apollinaire Pablo Picasso Arthur Cravan Franz Kafka Jakob van Hoddis Marcel Duchamp Hans Arp Alberto Savinio Jacques Vache Benjamin Peret Jacques Rigaut Jacques Prevert Salvador Dali Jean Ferry Leonora Carrington Gisèle Prassinos Jean-Pierre Duprey

Just saw that Gisèle Prassinos was empty, so created a stub article about her - please feel free to contribute to it. Thanks Patchen 11:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

List of banned authors during the Third Reich

List of banned authors during the Third Reich

Histories (history of the novel)

novel romance literature term catalogue "histories" Don Quixote Fénelon Manley's New Atalantis (1709) Menantes' Satyrischer Roman (1706) Madame de La Fayette's Princesse de Cleves (1678) Robinson Crusoe (1719) Daniel Defoe Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (1644-1712) d'Artagnan's Alexandre Dumas the elder Ian Fleming James Bond


Creation Books bibliography

Creation Books is a British publishing house. Contributors and authors include Jeremy Reed, Peter Sotos, David Kerekes, David Slater and Jack Sargeant Stephen Barber

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1944) - Phyllis Cerf Wagner

Phyllis Cerf Wagner?

First published in 1944. Represented in the anthology are W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw"; Saki's "Sredni Vashtar" and "The Open Window"; Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"; Conrad Aiken's "Silent Snow, Secret Snow"; Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan"; Edgar Allan Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers").

See also


Art as an excuse for depicting prurient interests

Before the 1850s and the birth of modern art, artists needed an excuse to depict violence and sex in their paintings or engravings. Some themes from mythology or martyrology provided an excuse to display these themes.

Violence

See also: aestheticization_of_violence, graphic violence
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Simone Martini (1285-1344). Dark themes and high emotion were increasingly pronounced in late Gothic art.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Some of the stories included in Saint Anthony's biography are perpetuated now mostly in paintings, where they give an excuse for artists to depict their more lurid or bizarre fantasies. Many pictorial artists, from Félicien Rops and Hieronymus Bosch to Salvador Dalí, have depicted these incidents from the life of Anthony; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert.

Massacre of the Innocents

The theme of the "Massacre of the Innocents" has provided artists with opportunities to compose complicated depictions of massed bodies in violent action. Artists of the Renaissance took inspiration for their "Massacres" from Roman reliefs of the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs to the extent that they showed the figures heroically nude. Guido Reni's early (1611) Massacre of the Innocents, in an unusual vertical format, is at Bologna. Peter Paul Rubens painted the theme more than once.

The Last Judgment

In art, the Last Judgment is a common theme in medieval and renaissance religious iconography. Like most early iconographic innovations, its origins stem from Byzantium. In Western Christianity, it is often the subject depicted on the central tympanum of medieval cathedrals and churches, or as the central section of a triptych, flanked by depictions of heaven and hell to the left and right, respectively (heaven being to the viewer's left, but to the Christ figure's right). The most famous Renaissance depiction is Michelangelo Buonarroti's in the Sistine Chapel. Included in this is his self portrait, as St. Bartholomew's flayed skin.

Judith

The subject: a daring and beautiful woman Judith in her full maturity, dressed as for the feast with all her spectacular jewels, accompanied by an apprehensive maid, succeeds in decapitating the invading general, Holofernes. The moral is as much about the dangers of a beautiful woman, as had been told of Delilah and Samson, but here the woman was a culture-hero to the listeners.

Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes

Michelangelo's Judith carries away the head of Holofernes

Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi

Medusa

Caravaggio's and Rubens's Medusa.

Salome

The Biblical story of Salome has long been a favourite of painters, since it offers a chance to depict oriental splendour, semi-nude women, and exotic scenery under the guise of a Biblical subject. Painters who have done notable representations of Salome include Titian and Gustave Moreau.

Nudity and eroticism

Depictions of The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Venus (mythology), The Three Graces

Leda and the Swan

The motif of Leda and the Swan from Greek mythology, in which the Greek god Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan, was rarely seen in Gothic art, but resurfaced as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in Italian painting and sculpture of the 16th Century.

The Three Graces

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The Graces in a 1st century fresco at Pompeii.

On the representation of the Graces, Pausanias wrote,

"Who it was who first represented the Graces naked, whether in sculpture or in painting, I could not discover. During the earlier period, certainly, sculptors and painters alike represented them draped. [...] But later artists, I do not know the reason, have changed the way of portraying them. Certainly to-day sculptors and painters represent Graces naked."

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Venus

Venus became a popular subject of painting and sculpture during the Renaissance period in Europe. As a "classical" figure for whom nudity was her natural state, it was socially acceptable to depict her unclothed. As the goddess of sexual healing, a degree of erotic beauty in her presentation was justified, which had an obvious appeal to many artists and their patrons. Over time, "venus" came to refer to any artistic depiction of a nude woman, even when there was no indication that the subject was the goddess.

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