Gustave Moreau, L’Apparition (1876-7)
Autoritratto (1902) di Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Conteur Compatissant – Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant, translated by Marjorie Laurie (Everyman’s Library 1934)
• Riff-Raph – 100 Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces, Gordon Kerr (Flame Tree Publishing 2011)
• Fall of the Wild – A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C. Clarke (1961)
• Orchid and Oak – Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, W.E. Vine et al (Thomas Nelson 1984)
• Hoare Here – Risingtidefallingstar, Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate 2017)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
David Inshaw, The Badminton Game (1972-3)
I first came across this beautiful and mysterious painting in a book devoted to British art. Then I forgot the name of both artist and painting, and couldn’t get at the book any more. Years later, I’ve found it again on the cover of a paperback in a secondhand shop. I like the way it combines zones: the domestic and the dendric, the lunar and the ludic, the terrestrial and the celestial. And it’s full of fractals: the trees, the clouds and, implicitly, the moon and the two girls playing badminton.
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• David Inshaw — official website
• David Inshaw at Wikipedia
Gustave Moreau, Jason et Médée (1865)
“Once, in a contest with a rival, he painted a blue curve on a huge sheet of paper. Then he dipped the feet of a chicken in red paint and persuaded the bird to walk all over the paper. The resulting image, he said, represented the Tatsuta river with red maple leaves floating in it. The judge gave him the prize.” — The Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (c. 1760-1849) described in Thomas W. Hodgkinson’s and Hubert van den Bergh’s How to Sound Cultured (2015)
Dante Gabriel Rosetti, The Damsel of the Sanct Grael (1874)
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Humanist Hubris – The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited, John Carroll (Scribe 2010)
• Paw is Less – The Plague Dogs, Richard Adams (Penguin 1977)
• I Like Bike – Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World, Alex Newson (Conran Octopus 2013)
• Morc is Less – The Weird Shadow Over Morecambe, Edmund Glasby (Linford 2013)
• Nekro-a-Kokoa – Comfort Corps: Cuddles, Calmatives and Cosy Cups of Cocoa in the Music of Korpse-Hump Kannibale, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (University of Nebraska Press 2015)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady (1460)
Moonlight Walk by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93)
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 