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Christusgleicher Kunstkönig
Albrecht Dürer, Selbstbildnis (1500)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
Christusgleicher Kunstkönig is German for “Christ-like Art-King”, because Dürer represented himself in a way traditionally reserved for images of Christ.
Ruff Stuff
Zelfportret (1601) by Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) (pron. roughly OO-tuh-vaal), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Previously pre-posted:
• She-Shell — Perseus Rescuing Andromeda (1611) by Wtewael
Brush Bloke
Autoritratto (1902) di Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Ju Dunnit
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).
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #23
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Face Paint – A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits, Laura Cumming (HarperPress 2009; paperback 2010)
• The Aesthetics of Animals – Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour, Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton (BBC Books 2009)
• Less Light, More Night – The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artifical Light, Paul Bogard (Fourth Estate 2013)
• The Power of Babel – Clark Ashton Smith, Huysmans, Maupassant
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 