Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Early Riser — Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh (1928)
• The Future is Fascist — Futurism, Richard Humphreys (1999 Tate Publishing)
• Mystery and Meaning — Dictionary of Plant Names, Allen J. Coombes (1985)
• Noshing on Noxiousness — Nekro-Noxious: Toxic Tales of True Transgression in Miami Municipal Mortuary, Norberto Fetidescu (TransVisceral Books 2018)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Autoritratto (1902) di Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (c. 1612), Cristofano Allori (1577-1621)
Interesting facts in-terms-of-issues-around this painting, known as Judith with the Head of Holofernes in English: according to Allori’s first biographer Filippo Baldinucci, the severed head is a self-portrait of Allori, the decapitatrix is an ex-girlfriend, Maria di Giovanni Mazzafirri, and the old servant is her mother (from A Face to the World, Laura Cumming, 2009).
