Dada artist: Hannah Höch exploring the dark side Corneliu Baba randoms forgotten realities 90s flashback: heroin chic poem-photo-painting

 

Jan 28, 2011

3-2-1


Collar by Oren Eliav

Young Girl with a Ruffled Collar
by Juana Romani, 1892

by Zdzisław Beksiński

unknown

Glynis Johns
in Miranda, 1948

Veruschka

Iwase Yoshiyuki


Modernist Nude #10, c.1955

Modernist Nude #8, c.1955

Modernist Nude #5, c.1955

Modernist Nude #14, c.1955

Rinsing Off the Salt, 1950

Dozing in Cool Sand, 1950
(source: here)

Jan 27, 2011

esoteric


I Like America and America Likes Me
by Joseph Beuys (performance, 1974)


Saint Francis in Meditation
by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1632-3

Jan 26, 2011

trois


by Ellen von Unwerth

Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, 1958

Audrey Tautou by Ellen Von Unwerth

hypnosis & hysteria


Images of hysterics under hypnosis at Salpêtrière
from D.M. Bourneville and P. Régnard

Photographic Iconography of Salpêtrière (Paris, 1876-1880)

Manuel pratique d'hypnotisme, 1941

Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Theater of Medicine

Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière
(A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière)
by André Brouillet, 1887


Hysteria - chronophotography
Jean-Martin Charcot


Jean-Martin Charcot’s Vibration Chair
for Parkinson disease, 1892


illustration by Brian Rea

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"Theory is good, but it doesn't prevent things from existing"
Jean-Martin Charcot, 1886


Jean-Martin Charcot
by Eduardo Tofano, 1881

round & red


Emma K by Martina Olsson
styled Linda Portman Sagum


Svala by Saga Sig
styled by Jessica Hannan

Jan 25, 2011

Gertrude Abercrombie

"the queen of the bohemian artists"

Untitled, 1961

The Bride, 1946

Flight, c.1946

The Stroll

A Terribly Strange Tree, 1949

Sunset, c.1954

Black Cat, 1957

Pin Point, 1958

White Horse, 1938

Flood, c.1948

Design for Death, 1946

Self-portrait

Self-portrait, 1953

Gertrude with Sonny Rollins

Gertrude Abercrombie