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Temptation of St. Anthony (detail), Hieronymus Bosch

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Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Right panel detail), c. 1506.

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Hieronymus Bosch - The Hermit Saints Triptych, central panel (detail). N.d., between 1493 and 1499

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Advertisements for Oneida Silverware, made by members of the polyamorous Victorian Oneida Community. The Oneida Community “was designed for the pursuit of love and the encouragement of sexual pleasure. Intercourse, according to Noyes, should be an ‘innocent and useful communion,’ a ‘joyful act of fellowship,’ and a ‘purely social affair,’ comparable to a stroll in the park, a conversation, or a dance, differing from these pursuits only in its superior intensity and beauty. In a society trained to Noyes’ principles, intercourse would take its place among the fine arts. Indeed, it would rank above music, painting, and sculpture, for it combined ‘the charms and benefits of them all.’” (https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/flesh/reinventing-sex)

#oneida community #polyamory #vintage #free love #utopia

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Illustration by Dorothy Lathrop for “The Lost Merry-Go-Round” (1934)

#dorothy lathrop #the lost merry go round #art nouveau #illustration #fairy tale

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Photos from the August 14, 2003 Northeast Blackout (source)

#disaster #community #primitivism #new york city #blackout

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Convicts’ garb is striped pink and white. Though it was at my heart’s bidding that I chose the universe wherein I delight, I at least have the power of finding therein the many meanings I wish to find: there is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. Should I have to portray a convict—or a criminal—I shall so bedeck him with flowers that, as he disappears beneath them, he will himself become a flower, a gigantic and new one. Toward what is known as evil, I lovingly pursued an adventure which led me to prison. Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil possess the manly virtues. Of their own volition, or owing to an accident which has been chosen for them, they plunge lucidly and without complaining into a reproachful, ignominious element, like that into which love, if it is profound, hurls human beings. Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down.

The Thief’s Journal, Jean Genet (1949)

#jean genet #literature #quotes #eroticism #flowers #evil

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Our children are vessels of hope and light. Let us all provide them with all the

Love Care Opportunities

to fulfill their destinies.

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Graphic - 遅野井梨絵

#collage #fairy tale

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Jean Jacques Lequeu, Et nous aussi nous serons meres (1794)

#jean jacques lequeu #lequeu #eroticism #18th century #art

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Artist unknown, date unknown

Shunga, traditional Japanese erotic art (shunga, literally 'spring pictures'), was produced from 1600 to 1900 and banned in Japan for much of the 20th century. 

#shunga #art #eroticism #japanese art #mirror

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“A ‘lover's eye’ miniature is a painted miniature of the giver's eye, presented to a loved one. The notion accompanying this very short lived fad (c.1790 through 1820) was that the eye would be recognizable only to the recipient and could therefore be worn publicly keeping the lover's identity a secret. In contradiction however, portraits from the period rarely show the sitter overtly wearing or holding an eye miniature thereby perhaps indicating that the wearers concealed these intimate portraits from view to further guard their secrecy.” (source)

#painting #lovers eye #miniature #art

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Marcel Duchamp, Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage ("Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas") (1946-1966)

This work is a tableau, visible only through a pair of peepholes (one for each eye) in a wooden door, of a nude woman lying on her back with her face hidden, legs spread, holding a gas lamp in the air in one hand against a landscape backdrop.

Duchamp worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his Greenwich Village studio. It is composed of an old wooden door, nails, bricks, brass, aluminum sheet, steel binder clips, velvet, leaves, twigs, a female form made of parchment, hair, glass, plastic clothespins, oil paint, linoleum, an assortment of lights, a landscape composed of hand-painted and photographed elements and an electric motor housed in a cookie tin which rotates a perforated disc. The Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, Duchamp's girlfriend from 1946 to 1951, served as the model for the female figure in the piece, and his second wife, Alexina (Teeny), served as the model for the figure's arm. Duchamp prepared a "Manual of Instructions" in a 4-ring binder explaining and illustrating how to assemble and disassemble the piece.

#marcel duchamp #eroticism #installation #postmodernism #art

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after With Hidden Noise. Marcel Duchamp. Ball of twine between two brass plates, joined by four long screws, containing unknown object added by Walter Arensberg. 1916. I wrap my miniature, miscarried baby in fine white linen then fine softest red wool, which I wrap in a miniature box of thin wood, the kind with a one-way track and an invisible catch that slides into place then snaps shut forever and forever. And I wrap the box in packing paper and twine like a gift. I suspend the miniature package with red silk thread over my side of the bed so my miniature, miscarried baby and everything I’ve wrapped around her can haunt me properly. Then I cut the whole bed, chest of drawers, wingback rocker, mirror, painting on the wall, and the walls themselves, the whole room, out of my house and put it up in a room in a museum where I go to sleep at night leaving traces of myself on the things in the room (hair on the pillows, new dust made out of my skin) and alchemizing my small suspended package into something entirely new, something entirely, entirely other than what is was.

‘Hidden Noise.’ Kathryn Cowles. Wood, cloth, paper, twine, thread, furniture, building materials, body. 2017

#kathryn cowles #poetry #marcel duchamp

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For the Memory of a Lifetime by Gio Forbice.

(insp. Google Street View).

#surveillance

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With Hidden Noise by Marcel Duchamp,1916. Readymade sculpture of brass, string and unknown object. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection.

Jen Graves wrote in The Stranger:

On Easter Day in 1916, the artist Marcel Duchamp—the man who invented the readymade (or is “invented” the right word?)—gave his friend Walter Arensberg a ball of nautical twine and asked Arensberg to insert an object into the center of the ball. Duchamp asked Arensberg not to tell him what was in the center of his own artwork. He sandwiched the ball between two brass plates held together by four screws, and titled the sculpture With Hidden Noise because when you shake it, the secret contents make a rattling sound.

Read the rest on The Stranger.

I am posting a Duchamp today because Scott Kindall created a a web-based program that will compete with YOU in a chess match as if you were playing against Master Duchamp himself. Kindall writes on Playing Duchamp:

Based on 72 recorded tournament games by played by Marcel Duchamp in the 1920s and 1930s alongside conversations with Jennifer Shahade, a chess and Duchamp expert, I abstracted various principles regarding his chess strategies. From this knowledge, I modified the GNU Chess code, under GPL license.

I played him and lost in 24 moves. I think I might have done better if I didn’t mix up which was my king and which was the queen. PROTIP: The queen is the one with the crown.

#marcel duchamp #surrealism #1910s #mystery

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Installation view of Portia Munson’s Pink Project; Bedroom, 1994-2018, at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2018. Photography by Steven Probert.

#portia munson #art #pink project #installation #pink

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Dorothy Lathrop ~ The Little Mermaid ~ 1939 ~ via

His limbs were numbed, his beautiful eyes were closing, and he must have died if the little mermaid had not come to his rescue. She held his head above the water and let the waves drive them whithersoever they would.

#dorothy lathrop #illustration #little mermaid #fairy tale