Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Primacy of Matter over Thought

Man Ray, The Primacy of Matter over Thought, 1931

Mario De Biasi, Gli italiani si voltano, Milano, 1954

Anom., Tom Wesselmann & Model, c. 1965

Somewhere in Paris

Lucien Clergue, Room with a View, 1970s

T.W. Salomon, Female Nude in Armchair, 1935

Bill Brandt, Hampstead, 1945

Bill Brandt, Campden Hill, 1949

Horst P. Horst, Bending Nude, 1941

Willy Kessels - Nu à la Fleur Appliquant son Maquillage, 1937

Judy Dater, Imogen Cunningham And Twinka At Yosemite, 1974

Rudolf Koppitz, Motion Study, 1926

Atelier Manassé, Untitled, 1930s

Heinz Hajek-Halke, Hamse nich ne Braut für mich?, 1928

Max Dupain, Brave New World, c. 1933

Jean Moral, Female Nude in Lingerie and Boots, 1930s

Willy Ronis, Deena de dos, 1955

Marianne Breslauer, Ruth von Morgen, Berlin, 1934

Elmer Batters

Grâce à FANTOMATIC

Erwin Blumenfeld, Wet Veil, Paris, 1936

Man Ray, Anatomy II, 1930s

Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, 1923

Willy Ronis, Le Nu Provençal, Gordes, 1949

Brassaï, Matisse drawing his model in the studio lent to him by Mrs. Callery - an American sculptor, at the Villa d'Alesia, 1939

Heinz Hajek-Halke, Ripe Fruit, 1930s

„Heute morgen mußte ich daran denken, daß reif sein soviel bedeutet, wie zweifach jung sein. Reife ist doppelte Jugend. Jede reife Frucht bezeugt es. Wie etwa der Pfirsich. Gelb im Fleisch, die eine Seite krapplackrot, die andere orange. Herausfordernd und begehrenswert. Reif sein ist das Größte, sagt Shakespeare, ripeness is all. Nichts ist jünger als so eine kokette Rundheit.“ (Béla Hamvas, Silentium)

Stéphane Lallemand, L'odalisque blonde (d'après Boucher), 2007

What. in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither:
Ripeness is all. Come on.

Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V. Scene II

Irving Penn

Grâce à FANTOMATIC

Ellen von Unwerth

Retro Sisters

František Drtikol, Two Nudes, 1932

Imogen Cunningham, Two sisters, 1928

T.W. Salomon, Revuegirls, ca. 1935

Raoul Hausmann, Two Nudes on a Beach, c. 1930

Alfred Stieglitz, Rebecca Strand, 1923

Jeanloup Sieff

John A.S. Coutts, Holly Faram, 1930s

Man Ray, Natasha Miller en robe de soie, 1930

George R. Hoxie - Solarized Legs in Stockings and Heels, 1940s

Horst P. Horst, Round the Clock, 1987

Helmut Newton

André Gelpke, Angelique aus dem Salambo, St. Pauli, Hamburg, 1976

Ruth Bernhard, Neck Study, 1958

Daido Moriyama, Letter to Nakahira Takuma, Fin (Ueno), 1988

Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina (Detail), 1622

Man Ray, The Return of Reason, 1923

Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Meowmorphosis

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. (Mark Twain)

Luciano Rigolini, Untitled, 2008

Aubrey Beardsley, Black Cat, 1894

Paul Landacre, Sultry Day, 1930s

Paula Rego, Nursery Rhymes, 1990s

Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Chat au Clair de Lune, c. 1900

Walter Schnackenberg, The Sleepwalker, 1956

Lullaby for the Cat
by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Minnow go to sleep and dream,
Close your great big eyes:
Round your bed Events prepare
The pleasentest surprise.

Darling Minnow, drop that frown,
Just cooperate.
Not a kitten shall be drowned
In the Marxist State.

Joy and Love will both be yours,
Minnow, don’t be glum.
Happy days are coming soon –
Sleep, and let them come . . .

Minnow

Somewhere in Moscow ...

Jean Bourdichon, The 'grandes Heures' of Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 1500

Sean Landers, Ms. Kitty, 1999

Thanks to thisisnthappiness.com/

Gregor Samsa is a humble young man who supports his unemployed parents and teenage sister by working as a traveling fabric salesman. But his life goes strangely wrong in the very first sentence of The Meowmorphosis, when he wakes up late for work and discovers that he has inexplicably become an adorable kitten. His family must admit that, yes, their son is now OMG so cute — but what good is cute when there are bills to pay?

A Little Fable

by Franz Kafka

"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

I Am A Cat by Soseki Natsume

I Am A Cat is a satirical novel written in 1905–1906 by Natsume Sōseki, about Japanese society during the Meiji Period; particularly, the uneasy mix of Western culture and Japanese traditions, and the aping of Western customs.