tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43940911348431739112024-03-05T01:35:53.421-08:00ephemera assemblymanjoel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-38920486782753906832010-05-20T14:34:00.000-07:002010-05-20T14:43:32.342-07:00Qué caso tieneAnother big thanks to for <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17074922908015083753">Borr</a> who identified Rogelio Naranjo as the artist of much of the work in <a href="http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-revista-nexos.html">the last post on Nexos magazine</a>. I went searching for more of <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_Naranjo">Rogelio Naranjo's</a> work and found scans of his 1982 book <span style="font-style: italic;">Qué caso tiene</span> at <a href="http://dieumsnh.qfb.umich.mx/ARTECULTURA/quecaso.htm">La Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo's site</a>, where Naranjo studied. Here are some favorites:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4624418075/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 1 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4624418075_bd1b3139ac_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 1" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4625020284/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 70 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4625020284_b93a11975c_o.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 70" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4625022090/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 27 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4625022090_36ce949e4c_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 27" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4624413529/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 45 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4624413529_ae566d60c0_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 45" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4624414289/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 59 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4624414289_bd8a5c312c_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 59" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4625016316/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 8 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4625016316_b9204f045c_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 8" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4624411713/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 25 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4624411713_718e71a5f2_o.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 25" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4625017320/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 29 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3328/4625017320_4951d0000c_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 29" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4625017960/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 30 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4625017960_dcec6e6f7f_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 30" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4624414887/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 63 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3392/4624414887_ea6f0b0f23_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 63" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4624416173/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 40 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/4624416173_3b94355ee0_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 40" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4625021496/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 19 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3366/4625021496_2a117e05ec_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 19" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4624417733/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 35 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4624417733_9f370ebd0d_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 35" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4624418395/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 67A by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4624418395_d61df5a41b_o.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 67A" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4625020734/" title="Rogelio Naranjo 20 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4625020734_213fb03118_b.jpg" alt="Rogelio Naranjo 20" width="550" /></a><br /><br />-<br />Many more (including some great caricatures) at la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo [<a href="http://dieumsnh.qfb.umich.mx/ARTECULTURA/quecaso.htm">link</a>]<br />Rogelio Naranjo at Wikipedia (en español) [<a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_Naranjo">link</a>]<br />Qué caso tiene at WorldCat [<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/que-caso-tiene/oclc/10526794&referer=brief_results">link</a>] at OpenLibrary [<a href="http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL972806A/Rogelio_Naranjo">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-5014715335007698022010-05-16T19:46:00.000-07:002010-05-20T14:03:17.637-07:00La revista Nexos<a href="http://www.nexos.com.mx/">Nexos</a> is a monthly cultural magazine published in Mexico City. The magazine was started in 1978, and is not related to the South American <span style="font-style: italic;">Nexos Magazine</span> published by American Airlines. Following are some visual works from the first several issues that I found. Unfortunately, I have no information on the artists. (And <a href="http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/2009/06/el-rostro-face.html">once again</a>, thank you to <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3390/4613442661_f89447a4a8_b.jpg">my beautiful graduating gf</a> for the below translations.)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">EDIT: huge thanks to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17074922908015083753">Borr</a> for identifying <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_Naranjo">Rogelio Naranjo</a> as the artist of many of the below illustrations.</span><br /><br />"It was founded in 1978 by historian Enrique Florescano, with the idea of presenting segments of society, science, and literature in a publication that would think about and consider public life, and criticize the society and politics of Mexico. Since then, Nexus has followed the fundamental transformation of the country. During thirty years, its pages have fostered intellectual and academic debate, documenting the precariousness of the state of the Right, economic stagnation, and poverty and inequities, among other obstacles of change. As a magazine that advocates ideological diversity, Nexos has encouraged and stimulated democratic reform which makes us think that the Mexico of 1978 may have occurred in another country." -translated from the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grupo-NEXOS/124789519100">Nexos Group Facebook page</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4516377608/" title="1 - 1978 Jan Cover Detail by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4516377608_c1ab728c34_b.jpg" alt="1 - 1978 Jan Cover Detail" width="500" /></a><br />No. 1, Jan 1978 Detail, possibly by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grosz">George Grosz (?)</a> (thanks to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12674967689346214956">P-E Fronning</a>)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grosz"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4516380902/" title="1 - 1978 Jan Cover by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2719/4516380902_d577ce270f_b.jpg" alt="1 - 1978 Jan Cover" width="500" /></a><br />No. 1, Jan 1978<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Nexus desires to be what its name announces: a place of intersection and connections, a point of links for experiences and disciplines that specialization tends to segregate, and even oppose. It aspires to be a forum where problems of science and technology, economic and social research, literary essays, and historical and contemporary politics are expressed."</span> -from Issue number 1, January 1978.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504055919/" title="2 - 1978 Feb Cover Detail by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4504055919_84aced8aa8_b.jpg" alt="2 - 1978 Feb Cover Detail" width="450" /></a><br />No. 2, Feb 1978 Detail<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504688022/" title="2 - 1978 Feb Cover by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4504688022_51bde72d70_b.jpg" alt="2 - 1978 Feb Cover" width="500" /></a><br />No. 2, Feb 1978, by Rogelio Naranjo<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4515617819/" title="4 - 1978 Apr Cover by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4515617819_50a8c7bc5e_b.jpg" alt="4 - 1978 Apr Cover" width="500" /></a><br />No. 4, April 1978<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4516249476/" title="6 - 1978 Jun Cover by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4516249476_e9a2f5a9f0_b.jpg" alt="6 - 1978 Jun Cover" width="500" /></a><br />No. 6, June 1978<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504040543/" title="14 - 1979 D by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4504040543_81910fb26c_o.jpg" alt="14 - 1979 D" width="450" /></a><br />by Rogelio Naranjo<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504051821/" title="2 - 1978 B by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2727/4504051821_ef940ee069_b.jpg" alt="2 - 1978 B" width="450" /></a><br />by Rogelio Naranjo<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504672928/" title="14 - 1979 C by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4504672928_dc1b6dbc5b_o.jpg" alt="14 - 1979 C" width="450" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504051241/" title="2 - 1978 A by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4504051241_21da22b8a1_o.jpg" alt="2 - 1978 A" width="450" /></a><br />by Rogelio Naranjo<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504033615/" title="13 - 1979 A by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4504033615_be10e9fa16_o.jpg" alt="13 - 1979 A" width="450" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"I will only judge on personality and talent,"</span> by Rogelio Naranjo<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504040987/" title="17 - 1979 A by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4504040987_e1e0f70e98_o.jpg" alt="17 - 1979 A" width="450" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504042803/" title="17 - 1979 B by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2722/4504042803_c3284ba040_o.jpg" alt="17 - 1979 B" width="250" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504672330/" title="14 - 1979 A by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img style="width: 250px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2691/4504672330_31a84bc774_b.jpg" alt="14 - 1979 A" /></a><br />by Rogelio Naranjo<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504077939/" title="12 - 1978 A by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4504077939_c10b729ddb_o.jpg" alt="12 - 1978 A" width="450" /></a><br /><br />Nexos website [<a href="http://www.nexos.com.mx/">link</a>]<br />Image gallery of recent issues on their website [<a href="http://www.nexos.com.mx/?P=galcartones">link</a>]<br />Nexos Facebook group page [<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grupo-NEXOS/124789519100">link</a>]<br />more works are posted on my flickr page [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/sets/72157623688363209/">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4504075205/" title="1978 B by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4504075205_69db959efe_b.jpg" alt="1978 B" width="650" /></a>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-39780732410915802392010-04-15T10:03:00.000-07:002010-04-16T08:42:34.720-07:00Selections from the Intl. Exhibition of CalligraphyThere are already a few posts about from this incredible <a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/">exhibition</a>, including one by the great <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/08/calligraphy-exhibition.html">BibliOdyssey</a>, but I couldn't help but post a few more.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512939954/" title="Ruslan Naiden - Signs list #1 (Paper, ink, pen, 46x46 cm, 1994) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2391/4512939954_a04c89cb68_o.jpg" alt="Ruslan Naiden - Signs list #1 (Paper, ink, pen, 46x46 cm, 1994)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=36&sw=p&idsub=176">Ruslan Naiden</a> - Signs list #1 (Paper, ink, pen, 46x46 cm, 1994)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4513609338/" title="Georgy Kozubov - Expromt (Paper, ink, worn brush, pointed pen. 1989) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2407/4513609338_3abae77f56_o.jpg" alt="Georgy Kozubov - Expromt (Paper, ink, worn brush, pointed pen. 1989)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=30&sw=p&idsub=153">Georgy Kozubov</a> - Expromt (Paper, ink, worn brush, pointed pen, 1989)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512297215/" title="Georgy Kozubov - Schriftomahia ( Digital copy. Original- blotting paper for lithography, watercolor, Сhinese ink, brush, metal pen, 56x46 cm, 1986) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4512297215_2006652251_o.jpg" alt="Georgy Kozubov - Schriftomahia ( Digital copy. Original- blotting paper for lithography, watercolor, Сhinese ink, brush, metal pen, 56x46 cm, 1986)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=30&sw=p&idsub=153">Georgy Kozubov</a> - Schriftomahia (Digital copy. Original- blotting paper for lithography, watercolor, Сhinese ink, brush, metal pen, 56x46 cm, 1986)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512297501/" title="Karin BAUER - We will find us (Wir werden uns finden) (Ink on handmade paper, 29x21 cm, 2008) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4512297501_17710a1629_o.jpg" alt="Karin BAUER - We will find us (Wir werden uns finden) (Ink on handmade paper, 29x21 cm, 2008)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=160&sw=p&idsub=1447">Karin Bauer</a> - We will find us (Wir werden uns finden) (Ink on handmade paper, 29x21 cm, 2008)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512939264/" title="Olga Varlamova - From the choir of the Borovichsky Saint-Spirit cloister (Book sign. Color paper, ink, pointed nib, 8.9x9.05 cm, 2009) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2057/4512939264_3885e10978_o.jpg" alt="Olga Varlamova - From the choir of the Borovichsky Saint-Spirit cloister (Book sign. Color paper, ink, pointed nib, 8.9x9.05 cm, 2009)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=157&sw=p&idsub=1411">Olga Varlamova</a> - From the choir of the Borovichsky Saint-Spirit cloister (Book sign. Color paper, ink, pointed nib, 8.9x9.05 cm, 2009)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512296443/" title="Abdul Baki Abu Bakar - The powerful (Paper & Holbein ink, Bamboo, 92x60 cm, 2008) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2310/4512296443_debd293b54_o.jpg" alt="Abdul Baki Abu Bakar - The powerful (Paper & Holbein ink, Bamboo, 92x60 cm, 2008)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=145&sw=p&fotka=1438">Abdul Baki Abu Bakar</a> - The powerful (Paper & Holbein ink, Bamboo, 92x60 cm, 2008)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4513038214/" title="Claudio Gil - et&et (Sketchbook spread. Felt marker, 33x23cm, 2006) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/4513038214_33bfb8c0d9_o.jpg" alt="Claudio Gil - et&et (Sketchbook spread. Felt marker, 33x23cm, 2006)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=87&sw=p&idsub=663">Claudio Gil</a> - et&et (Sketchbook spread. Felt marker, 33x23cm, 2006)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512941502/" title="Zarkh Ekaterina - Beyond the circle bounds II (Poem ''My city strewed with gold in autumn'') (Paper, ink, pen, 42x60 cm, 2003) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2418/4512941502_f10510a7be_o.jpg" alt="Zarkh Ekaterina - Beyond the circle bounds II (Poem ''My city strewed with gold in autumn'') (Paper, ink, pen, 42x60 cm, 2003)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=163&sw=p&idsub=1461">Zarkh Ekaterina</a> - Beyond the circle bounds II (Poem "My city strewed with gold in autumn") (Paper, ink, pen, 42x60 cm, 2003)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512940470/" title="Vera Evstafieva - Literature map of the St.-Petersburg (for the Russia! journal) (Lettering, Adobe Photoshop, 43х28 cm, 2008) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4512940470_fca8f69dbe_o.jpg" alt="Vera Evstafieva - Literature map of the St.-Petersburg (for the Russia! journal) (Lettering, Adobe Photoshop, 43х28 cm, 2008)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=95&sw=p&idsub=732">Vera Evstafieva</a> - Literature map of the St. Petersburg (for the Russia! journal) (Lettering, Adobe Photoshop, 43х28 cm, 2008)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512940900/" title="Yury Toreev - ''The snow is falling, thus drawing veil up to horizon…'' ( Arttext after the verse by Nakhakara Tuya) (Paper, pen, ink, 84x84 cm, 2008.) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/4512940900_ff007cae06_o.jpg" alt="Yury Toreev - ''The snow is falling, thus drawing veil up to horizon…'' ( Arttext after the verse by Nakhakara Tuya) (Paper, pen, ink, 84x84 cm, 2008.)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=32&sw=p&idsub=165">Yury Toreev</a> - "The snow is falling, thus drawing veil up to horizon..." (Arttext after the verse by Nakhakara Tuya) (Paper, pen, ink, 84x84 cm, 2008)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512941314/" title="Yury Toreev - Coming ( Writing on glass with a rubber brush upon wet gouache, photoprint from glass by a contact method, scanning, printer, 84x68 cm, 2003.) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4512941314_50efb67917_o.jpg" alt="Yury Toreev - Coming ( Writing on glass with a rubber brush upon wet gouache, photoprint from glass by a contact method, scanning, printer, 84x68 cm, 2003.)" width="600" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=32&sw=p&idsub=165">Yury Toreev</a> - Coming (Writing on glass with a rubber brush upon wet gouache, photoprint from glass by a contact method, scanning, printer, 84x68 cm, 2003)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512298321/" title="Pavel Semchenko - Sacred melody (Graphic, 61x61 cm) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4512298321_1af06e06e5_o.jpg" alt="Pavel Semchenko - Sacred melody (Graphic, 61x61 cm)" width="440" height="438" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=21&sw=p&idsub=205">Pavel Semchenko</a> - Sacred melody (Graphic, 61x61 cm)<br />-<br /><br />All images from the International Exhibition of Calligraphy's website [<a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/">link</a>]<br />Russia's National Union of Calligraphers [<a href="http://www.calligraphy-union.ru/">link</a>]<br />BibliOdyssey's post from the same exhibition [<a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/08/calligraphy-exhibition.html">link</a>]<br />More calligraphy at BibliOdyssey [<a href="http://delicious.com/BibliOdyssey/calligraphy">link</a>]<br />A post on the exhibition at 79 Ideas [<a href="http://www.79ideas.org/2009/10/calligraphy.html">link</a>]<br />The Blog Notes: A Calligraphic Journal [<a href="http://contemporarycalligraphy.blogspot.com/">link</a>]<br />Many great calligraphy links at Omniglot [<a href="http://www.omniglot.com/links/calligraphy.htm">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4512300401/" title="Shahnawaz Alam Ahmed - Poetry by Meer Taqi Meer, a renown poet of India (Paper, self made ink and bamboo pen, 21х29.7 cm, 2009) c by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2024/4512300401_b0d2b8ca52_o.jpg" alt="Shahnawaz Alam Ahmed - Poetry by Meer Taqi Meer, a renown poet of India (Paper, self made ink and bamboo pen, 21х29.7 cm, 2009) c" width="350" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.calligraphy.mvk.ru/en/?idx=144&sw=p&idsub=1227">Shahnawaz Alam Ahmed</a> - Poetry by Meer Taqi Meer, a renown poet of India (Paper, self made ink and bamboo pen, 21х29.7 cm, 2009)joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-71827709977615692022010-04-07T16:45:00.000-07:002010-04-07T16:45:46.806-07:00Alvin Lustig miscellany<a href="http://www.alvinlustig.com/index.php"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4495369937/" title="Beverly Hills High School Commencement (Alvin Lustig, 1942)a by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4495369937_f1b24108f3_o.jpg" alt="Beverly Hills High School Commencement (Alvin Lustig, 1942)a" width="500" /></a><br />Beverly Hills High School Commencement, 1942<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4495368999/" title="Philately in Europe brochure, by Alvin Lustig, 1939 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4495368999_3079ee2196_o.jpg" alt="Philately in Europe brochure, by Alvin Lustig, 1939" width="500" /></a><br />Philately in Europe brochure, 1939<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4496049760/" title="Incantation, Textile Design 1947 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/4496049760_3a72f374bb_o.jpg" alt="Incantation, Textile Design 1947" width="500" /></a><br />Incantation, Textile Design, 1947 [<a href="http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2006/09/16/alvin-lustig-modern-american-design-pioneer-1915-1955/">via</a>] (see it in fabric form at Alki1's flickr ---> [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/2196180583/">link</a>])<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4225427857/" title="Alvin Lustig christmas card 1938-42 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4225427857_10245045fa_o.jpg" alt="Alvin Lustig christmas card 1938-42" width="500" /></a><br />Christmas card, 1940<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4495367611/" title="Typography Manual by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4495367611_cd00b47ef9_o.gif" alt="Typography Manual" width="500" /></a><br />Typography Manual, Art Teacher's Association of LA, 1941 [<a href="http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2006/09/16/alvin-lustig-modern-american-design-pioneer-1915-1955/">via</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4495367699/" title="1941 Alvin Lustig LETTERPRESS Self-Promotion broadside by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4495367699_90ed6016ba_o.jpg" alt="1941 Alvin Lustig LETTERPRESS Self-Promotion broadside" width="500" /></a><br />Self-Promotion broadside, 1941<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4496008224/" title="Beverly Hills High School - 23rd commencement (Alvin Lustig, 1940)a by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2719/4496008224_01060abdd6_o.jpg" alt="Beverly Hills High School - 23rd commencement (Alvin Lustig, 1940)a" width="500" /></a><br />Twenty-Third Commencement - Beverly Hills High School, 1940<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4496006092/" title="Beverly Hills High School - 25th commencement (Alvin Lustig, 1942) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2707/4496006092_4ed1e30c5c_o.jpg" alt="Beverly Hills High School - 25th commencement (Alvin Lustig, 1942)" width="500" /></a><br />Twenty-Fifth Commencement - Beverly Hills High School, 1942<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4496006996/" title="From These Basic, Standard, Typographic - design by Alvin Lustig by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4496006996_8c49497459_o.jpg" alt="From These Basic, Standard, Typographic - design by Alvin Lustig" width="500" /></a><br />Sheet with typographic shapes, 1939<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4495368893/" title="Ninth Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, 1950 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/4495368893_ba4a03421c_o.jpg" alt="Ninth Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, 1950" width="500" /></a><br />Ninth Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, 1950<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4495368565/" title="Joints for special install, at the Alvin Lustig exhibition at the A-D Gallery, 1949 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4495368565_cb5ab1eeb0_o.jpg" alt="Lustig one-man exhibiton at the A-D Gallery (NY) joints for special install. structure to hold panels for displays" width="450" /></a><br />Joints for special install, at the Alvin Lustig exhibition at the A-D Gallery, 1949<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4496006744/" title="Alvin Lustig Office 1951 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4496006744_2b53a4dc49_o.jpg" alt="Alvin Lustig Office 1951" width="450" /></a><br />Alvin Lustig's Office(?), 1951<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4496007606/" title="Photo of Alvin Lustig, 1945 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4496007606_4073afa813_o.jpg" alt="Photo of Alvin Lustig, 1945" width="400" /></a><br />Alvin Lustig, 1945<br />-<br />The fantastic Alvin Lustig website [<a href="http://www.alvinlustig.com/index.php">link</a>]<br />The Alvin & Elaine Lustig Design flickr pool [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/lustigdesign/pool/">link</a>]<br />Articles & Texticles has a great entry on Mr. Lustig, from which several of the above images are from [<a href="http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2006/09/16/alvin-lustig-modern-american-design-pioneer-1915-1955/">link</a>]<br />More of Lustig's works at the Smithsonian's collection [<a href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/search/results.cfm?q=lustig">link</a>]<br />Great bio and more works at AIGA [<a href="http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-alvinlustig">link</a>]<br />More works at Dr. Leslie's project [<a href="http://www.drleslie.com/ADGallery/lustig8.shtml">link</a>]<br />Books on/of Alvin Lustig's works at worldcat [link]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4495368271/" title="Fireplace sculpture, by Alvin Lustig"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4495368271_c5c03b87f1_o.jpg" alt="Charles house - fireplace sculpture, design by Alvin Lustig" width="200" /></a>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-59143277251769518762010-03-21T21:00:00.000-07:002010-03-21T21:42:16.972-07:00Chinese Book CoversWhile checking out my town's new rare/used book store, <a href="http://logosbooks.wordpress.com/">Logos Books</a>, I found this book of a collection of works from China's 'Central Academy of Arts & Design'. The full (and awkwardly translated) titled is "Selections of Designing Work the Central Academy of Arts & Design, 1956-1986" by Zhong Yang, Gong Yi Mei Shu Xue Yuan and She Ji Pin Xuan. I can find no information about the book online. Here are a few of my favorite book covers from the book. I'll post some posters and record designs from the book sometime soon.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4452383153/" title="Design, Wang Xiaofei by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4452383153_4f77e0b869_b.jpg" alt="Design, Wang Xiaofei" width="500" /></a><br />Design, Wang Xiaofei<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453157712/" title="The Selected Works of the Film songs, Chen Shaohua by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4453157712_b26034b540_b.jpg" alt="The Selected Works of the Film songs, Chen Shaohua" width="500" /></a><br />The Selected Works of the Film songs, Chen Shaohua<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453146564/" title="Clown Hans, Yu Bingnan by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4453146564_dca5a95892_b.jpg" alt="Clown Hans, Yu Bingnan" width="500" /></a><br />Clown Hans, Yu Bingnan<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453168892/" title="Contemporaries, He Yanming by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4453168892_c018bec10d_b.jpg" alt="Contemporaries, He Yanming" width="500" /></a><br />Contemporaries, He Yanming<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453171592/" title="Motherland in My Heart, Wu Guanying by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2687/4453171592_45e3649f53_b.jpg" alt="Motherland in My Heart, Wu Guanying" width="500" /></a><br />Motherland in My Heart, Wu Guanying<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453147588/" title="Time and Life, Chen Yadan by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2677/4453147588_cd1b0986b4_b.jpg" alt="Time and Life, Chen Yadan" width="500" /></a><br />Time and Life, Chen Yadan<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453152750/" title="Eagle, Ci Xiangqun by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4453152750_819a108145_b.jpg" alt="Eagle, Ci Xiangqun" width="500" /></a><br />Eagle, Ci Xiangqun<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4452378663/" title="Aesop's Fables, Li Meng by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2762/4452378663_cba70944fb_b.jpg" alt="Aesop's Fables, Li Meng" width="500" /></a><br />Aesop's Fables, Li Meng<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453156566/" title="Wall, Yue Xin by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4453156566_d7041a4c5b_b.jpg" alt="Wall, Yue Xin" width="500" /></a><br />Wall, Yue Xin<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4452385893/" title="The Timber Processing and its Utility, Kang Renping by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4452385893_d516764c1c_b.jpg" alt="The Timber Processing and its Utility, Kang Renping" width="500" /></a><br />The Timber Processing and its Utility, Kang Renping<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453160234/" title="Frontier Town, Kang Renping by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2706/4453160234_514ab4c787_b.jpg" alt="Frontier Town, Kang Renping" width="500" /></a><br />Frontier Town, Kang Renping<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453165450/" title="Frontier Town, Ren Jianmin by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4453165450_fbc0e66904_b.jpg" alt="Frontier Town, Ren Jianmin" width="500" /></a><br />Frontier Town, Ren Jianmin<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4452387353/" title="The Selected Works of Zhang Henshui, Yu Bingnan by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2737/4452387353_9b146821f4_b.jpg" alt="The Selected Works of Zhang Henshui, Yu Bingnan" width="500" /></a><br />The Selected Works of Zhang Henshui, Yu Bingnan<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453166490/" title="Gas Press-Container, Kang Renping by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4453166490_1ae9bca0d6_b.jpg" alt="Gas Press-Container, Kang Renping" width="500" /></a><br />Gas Press-Container, Kang Renping<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4453168026/" title="The Great Wall, He Yanming by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4453168026_1b6735db09_b.jpg" alt="The Great Wall, He Yanming" width="500" /></a><br />The Great Wall, He Yanming<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4452398277/" title="The Spring of the Beauties, Chen Xiaohong by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2771/4452398277_11145f5ab5_b.jpg" alt="The Spring of the Beauties, Chen Xiaohong" width="500" /></a><br />The Spring of the Beauties, Chen Xiaohong<br /><br />-<br />Found this at my newly reopened local independent bookstore, Logos Books [<a href="http://logosbooks.wordpress.com/">link</a>]<br />a few more covers are posted over at my flickr [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/sets/72157623667919530/">link</a>]<br />The Central Academy of Arts & Design (who put out this book) seems to be now known as "China Central Academy Of Fine Arts" [<a href="www.cafa.edu.cn">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-75150174238803204012010-02-28T21:42:00.000-08:002010-03-14T21:27:53.339-07:00From the Netherlands Architecture InstituteFrom various collections at the Netherlands Architecture Institute's <a href="http://www.nai.nl/">website</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369929522/" title="H Klopma and JB Bakema, architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema, City on Pampus, drawing, 1964 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4369929522_85930dec8a_o.jpg" alt="H Klopma and JB Bakema, architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema, City on Pampus, drawing, 1964" width="500" /></a><br />City on Pampus, Megastructure, by H. Klopma and J.B. Bakema, from the architectural firm <span style="font-style: italic;">Van den Broek and Bakema</span>, drawing, 1964 [<a href="http://static.nai.nl/nai_101_en/stuk/114">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369924340/" title="J.M. de Casseres, Eindhoven city expansion map, 1930 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4369924340_ba713c70d4_o.jpg" alt="J.M. de Casseres, Eindhoven city expansion map, 1930" width="500" /></a><br />Eindhoven city expansion - <span class="inleiding">an expansion model based on a regional concept</span>, J.M. de Casseres, 1930 [<a href="http://static.nai.nl/nai_101_en/stuk/11">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369926432/" title="Utrecht Music Society. Jupiter Amans. Schipbreuk (PJ C Klaarhamer 1924) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2739/4369926432_aeb507fbbd_o.jpg" alt="Utrecht Music Society. Jupiter Amans. Schipbreuk (PJ C Klaarhamer 1924)" width="600" /></a><br />Utrecht Music Society, Jupiter Amans, Schipbreuk, PJ C Klaarhamer, 1924 [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/webpresentations/picture_galleries/detail/_rp_left1_elementId/1_103037">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369924222/" title="Granpré Molière, Verhagen and Kok, Expansion plan for the Left Bank of the Maas, Rotterdam map, 1921 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4369924222_79c3c500b6_o.jpg" alt="Granpré Molière, Verhagen and Kok, Expansion plan for the Left Bank of the Maas, Rotterdam map, 1921" width="600" /></a><br />Expansion plan for the Left Bank of the Maas - Rotterdam map, Granpré Molière, Verhagen and Kok, 1921 [<a href="http://static.nai.nl/nai_101_en/stuk/58">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369926572/" title="Spring Clothing from Schocken Store (Johan Niegeman 1926) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2704/4369926572_a1be6cab83_o.jpg" alt="Spring Clothing from Schocken Store (Johan Niegeman 1926)" width="500" /></a><br />Spring Clothing from Schocken Store, Johan Niegeman, 1926 [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/webpresentations/picture_galleries/detail/_rp_left1_elementId/1_103037">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369927260/" title="Design drawing by W. la Croix for the cover of the magazine De 8 and Opbouw, 1937. NAI Collection - CROX by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4369927260_2aea11944e_o.jpg" alt="Design drawing by W. la Croix for the cover of the magazine De 8 and Opbouw, 1937. NAI Collection - CROX" width="500" /></a><br />Cover of the magazine De 8 and Opbouw, W. la Croix, 1937 [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/collection__research/archives__collections/ready_to_use/detailready/_rp_left1_elementId/1_394272">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369180477/" title="Design drawing by W. la Croix for the Holland America Line, n.d. NAI Collection - CROX by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2696/4369180477_bcb011e216_o.jpg" alt="Design drawing by W. la Croix for the Holland America Line, n.d. NAI Collection - CROX" width="500" /></a><br />Holland America Line, W. la Croix, no date [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/collection__research/archives__collections/ready_to_use/detailready/_rp_left1_elementId/1_394901">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369180887/" title="Luber, Poster for the seventh CIAM congress, 1949 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4369180887_0c0851b7ab_o.jpg" poster="" for="" the="" seventh="" ciam="" 1949="" width="600 alt=" /></a><br />Poster for the seventh CIAM congress, Max Huber, 1949 [<a href="http://static.nai.nl/nai_101_en/stuk/10">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369923678/" title="Theo van Doesburg, De Stijl magazine, 1917 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2798/4369923678_ec14713b7c_o.jpg" alt="Theo van Doesburg, De Stijl magazine, 1917" width="500" /></a><br />De Stijl magazine, Theo van Doesburg, 1917 [<a href="http://static.nai.nl/nai_101_en/stuk/36">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369177353/" title="Theo van Doesburg and architect Cornelis Van Eesteren, drawing, 1923 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2738/4369177353_7ceb8653a7_o.jpg" alt="Theo van Doesburg and architect Cornelis Van Eesteren, drawing, 1923" width="500" /></a><br />Contra-construction - Maison Particulière, Theo van Doesburg and architect Cornelis Van Eesteren, 1923 [<a href="http://static.nai.nl/nai_101_en/stuk/43">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369924796/" title="J.B. Bakema, Van stoel tot stad, book, 1964 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4369924796_6b930cf7a8_o.jpg" alt="J.B. Bakema, Van stoel tot stad, book, 1964" width="500" /></a><br />Van stoel tot stad, book, J.B. Bakema, 1964 [<a href="http://static.nai.nl/nai_101_en/stuk/14">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369926712/" title="Architecture Exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright (H. Th. Wijdeveld 1931) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2662/4369926712_854ce44c6f_o.jpg" alt="Architecture Exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright (H. Th. Wijdeveld 1931)" width="500" /></a><br />Architecture Exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright,H. Th. Wijdeveld, 1931 [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/webpresentations/picture_galleries/detail/_rp_left1_elementId/1_103037#">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369178267/" title="City Hall on the Amstel (Wim Brusse 1958) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4369178267_ee0e1c2aac_o.jpg" alt="City Hall on the Amstel (Wim Brusse 1958)" width="500" /></a><br />City Hall on the Amstel, Wim Brusse, 1958 [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/webpresentations/picture_galleries/detail/_rp_left1_elementId/1_103037#">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369178329/" title="Rietveld (Jan Bons 1959) by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2477/4369178329_b5d5dd0b1e_o.jpg" alt="Rietveld (Jan Bons 1959)" width="500" /></a><br />Rietveld, Jan Bons, 1959 [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/webpresentations/picture_galleries/detail/_rp_left1_elementId/1_103037#">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369928868/" title="Design drawing by W. la Croix for the Metal Workers’ Union, 1927. NAI Collection - CROX by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2803/4369928868_ce764e5179_o.jpg" alt="Design drawing by W. la Croix for the Metal Workers’ Union, 1927. NAI Collection - CROX" width="600" /></a><br />Metal Workers’ Union, W. la Croix, 1927 [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/collection__research/archives__collections/ready_to_use/detailready/_rp_left1_elementId/1_394272">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369176889/" title="Piet Blom, Dwelling as an urban roof, collage, 1965 by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2680/4369176889_0d99c0f18d_o.jpg" alt="Piet Blom, Dwelling as an urban roof, collage, 1965" width="600" /></a><br />Dwelling as an urban roof, collage, Piet Blom, 1965 [<a href="http://static.nai.nl/nai_101_en/stuk/1">link</a>]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4369178983/" title="Design drawing for name stamp G.F. la Croix and J.M. van der Mey, 1906. NAI Collection by ephemera assemblyman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2742/4369178983_7f572aa0d2_o.jpg" alt="Design drawing for name stamp G.F. la Croix and J.M. van der Mey, 1906. NAI Collection" width="500" /></a><br />Design drawing for name stamp, G.F. la Croix and J.M. van der Mey, 1906 [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/collection__research/archives__collections/ready_to_use/detailready/_rp_left1_elementId/1_394272">link</a>]<br /><br />-<br />all images come from the Netherlands Architecture Institute's website [<a href="http://en.nai.nl/">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-42267581255498587842010-02-10T20:40:00.000-08:002010-02-11T16:15:38.459-08:00Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov Theatre PostersI came across a worn Russian book of Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov’s theatre posters, called <span style="font-style: italic;">Teatralʹnyĭ plakat N. Akimova</span>. The book was published in Moscow in 1963 and is now out-of-print, but can be found at <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13387653&referer=brief_results">a few libraries</a> in the US, UK, and Japan. Below are some of my favorites. <span style="font-weight: bold;">EDIT - Huge thanks to Ingvar for providing the below translations</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4331377187/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 6 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2696/4331377187_2a3a747b83_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 6" width="500" /></a><br /><i> The Labyrinth<br /><br /></i>Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (1901 – 1968) was a "Russian stage designer, director, painter and graphic artist of Ukranian birth. He studied in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) from 1915 to 1919 in an artists' workshop under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Aleksandr Yakovlev and Vasily Shukhayev. From 1920 to 1922 he worked as a stage designer in Khar'kov (now Kharkiv). In 1923 he returned to Petrograd, where he worked as a book illustrator and stage designer at the Theatre of Musical Comedy, the Theatre of Drama and the Gor'ky Bol'shoy Theatre of Drama; he also worked in Moscow, at the Theatre of the Revolution, the Vakhtangov Theatre and the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). From 1929 he worked as a director, designing his own productions. He was the Art Director of the Leningrad Theatre of Comedy (1935-49), where the most notable productions he directed and designed were Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1938), Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger and Widow of Valencia (1939) and Yevgeny Shvarts's The Shadow (1946), among others. From 1951 to 1955 Akimov was the artistic director of the Leningrad Soviet Theatre; Shadows (by Saltykov-Shchedrin) and The Case (by Sukhovo-Kobylin) stand out among the productions he directed and designed there. From 1955 to the end of his life he was at the Leningrad Theatre of Comedy as Artistic Director; among his best productions there were Shvarts's An Ordinary Miracle (1956) and The Dragon (1962), and Motley Stories (1960) after Chekhov."-<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/nikolay-akimov">answers.com</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4331391613/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 11 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4331391613_24d370ff8c_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 11" width="500" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Hunter</span>, 1956<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4332117874/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 7 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4332117874_2248a21cb0_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 7" width="500" /></a><br /><i>1905<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4331366681/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 1 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2702/4331366681_01984b3011_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 1" width="500" /></a><br /><i>Dictatorship<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4333471123/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 19 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4333471123_6a1fa3fbc0_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 19" width="500" /></a><br /><i>3 Minute Talk<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4331371033/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 3 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2684/4331371033_edbf957503_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 3" width="500" /></a><br /><i>The Profiteer<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4331389625/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 10 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2683/4331389625_e78700c9a8_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 10" width="500" /></a><br /><i>Night Shindy<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4332125850/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 9 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4332125850_02941a9da2_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 9" width="500" /></a><br /><i>Trees Die Upright<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4334212170/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 17 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4334212170_fae3a66f28_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 17" width="500" /></a><br /><i>The Suitcase<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4334209194/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 15 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4334209194_b4a4604ba8_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 15" width="500" /></a><br /><i>Seat Nr. 16<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4333477921/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 27 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4333477921_95a1503185_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 27" width="500" /></a><br /><i>The Salesmen of Glory<br /><br /></i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4334222762/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 28 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4334222762_6329ebfd2f_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 28" width="500" /></a><br /><i>The Tragic Story of Hamlet the Danish Prince </i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4333478731/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 29 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2790/4333478731_5220e26ee2_o.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 29" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4333479029/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 30 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4333479029_2e42cbb5ae_o.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 30" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4334225230/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4334225230_29588e768c_b.jpg" alt="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov" width="300" /></a><br />-<br />brief biography at answers.com [<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/nikolay-akimov">link</a>]<br />@ worldcat [<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300593060?referer=di&ht=edition">link</a>]<br />more posters at Museum of Russian Poster [<a href="http://eng.plakaty.ru/authors?id=303">link</a>]<br />more of his work at <span style="font-style: italic;">Russian Art & Books</span> [<a href="http://www.russianartandbooks.com/cgi-bin/russianart/results.html">link</a>]<br />see more from the book at my flickr page [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/sets/72157623355407606/">link</a>]<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/4333478731/" title="Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 29 by jwebb202 (ephemera assemblyman), on Flickr"><br /></a>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-65906195226738898862010-01-31T21:52:00.000-08:002010-02-01T08:59:12.225-08:00Women, Snakes and Stalkers: South Asian book coversThis is a dual post with Will, from the great <a href="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/">A Journey Around My Skull</a>. All of these magnificent covers come courtesy of <a href="http://www.quinndombrowski.com/">Quinn Dombrowski</a>'s impressive South Asian books project, in which she photographs book covers from the "PK" section (Indo-Iranian languages and literatures) of the University of Chicago's <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.uchicago.edu%2Fe%2Freg%2F&ei=lmxmS76QH4XgtgPMmLGdAw&usg=AFQjCNFC7sSlHxxgvBCctqJHezLHLCU92g&sig2=U9pB7GkkRApUuu5PcJbt8A">Regenstein library</a>. See more covers at her blog, <a href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Women, Snakes and Stalkers</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;">,</span> and at her <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/sets/72157622500568106/">flickr</a>. And be sure to view Will's picks <a href="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2010/02/women-snakes-and-stalkers-south-asian.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Thank you to <a href="http://twitter.com/weetstraw">@weetstraw</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/Coudal">@Coudal</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/posteroffensive">@posteroffensive</a> who first <a href="http://twitter.com/weetstraw/status/7515805323">linked me</a> to <span style="font-style: italic;">Women, Snakes and Stalkers</span>.<br /><br />(click photos to visit the corresponding post at her blog)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/2010/01/when-you-out-of-design-ideas-just.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4317865800_58e706919e_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/2010/01/transgender.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4317855402_90bd1db187_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4317137357_dc2c22ba8f_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/2010/01/swimming-in-shower.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4317866874_758715fbb6_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4317869616_b7c3a3cc9a_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/2010/01/man-who-grew-flower-out-of-his-back.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2706/4317129879_ba6c83a333_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2739/4317146277_6030d26d62_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/2010/01/super-running-boy-and-perfect-hair-girl.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4321204760_42d5dc586b_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/2009/12/i-think-that-i-shall-never-see-book.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2746/4317852772_cd3f4517c2_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/2010/01/mind-unraveling.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4320467915_2f6db09c00_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/2009/12/book-that-looks-back-at-you.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 650px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4317121109_9c05ddd504_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-<br /><span>visit her blog, <span style="font-style: italic;">Women, Snakes and Stalkers</span></span> [<a href="http://www.womensnakesandstalkers.com/">link</a>]<br />also check out her flickr [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/sets/72157622500568106/">link</a>]<br />and her website [<a href="http://www.quinndombrowski.com/">link</a>]<br />more at A Journey Around My Skull [<a href="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2010/02/women-snakes-and-stalkers-south-asian.html">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-62380369880828849842010-01-25T14:14:00.000-08:002010-01-25T14:37:23.312-08:00Zenit - Зенит (1921 - 1926)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2764/4304142273_e7a2b7d2fb_o.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 350px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2764/4304142273_e7a2b7d2fb_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" TITLE="Ljubomir Micić"/></a>"In February 1921, in Zagreb, the poet Ljubomir Micić launched Zenit, an international magazine for art and culture, as it said in the subtitle; around its zenitist poetics and aesthetics, the magazine gathered representatives of all branches of art, both in the narrow and a broader meaning of the term – of poetry, literature, fine arts, theatre, film, architecture, music – from Yugoslavia, Russia and the West. A total of 43 issues were published, containing contributions in various languages (Ivan Goll’s “The Zenitist Manifesto” was printed in German). After being published regularly for over two years, and after switching the editorial office from Zagreb to Belgrade (the last Zagreb issue, no. 24, was published in May 1923), Zenit was published irregularly, occasionally coming out in the form of a multiple issue (Zenit no. 26-33 was published as an eightfold issue). Apart from the irregularity of its publication, it was characterised by changes of format and changes in outlook in terms of pictural-graphic design.<br /><br />Zenit was launched at a watershed cultural, political and historical moment: it was preceded by events such as the First World War and all its consequences, the October Revolution (its echo is felt in Branko Ve Poljanski’s “October Manifesto”, published in his authorial periodical Svetokret [Worldturn] in 1921, wherein the author draws a line from the Universe – the turning of the Earth around its axis in cosmos – to the inner, subjective revolution of the spirit), the establishment of a common state, made up of three peoples, separated until then by their immanent processes of national development, and the post-war Europe as a scene where various avant-garde groups and movements pursued their activities. Apart from this, Zenit may be viewed as a dialectical moment of provocation and a turning point in connection with the aesthetisation of the Balkans and its culture, which, until then, had not participated in the artistic and historical events of Europe on an equal footing. These external factors left their mark on the initial programme concept of the periodical, mediated through the most general of slogans about the negation of the war and the building of an international brotherhood of artists, along with a radical calling into question of the “sentry/border guard-like” and the “soldier-like” destiny of the Yugoslav people and arguing in favour of creating a new man and a new art." -Irina Subotić, from the <a href="http://digital.nb.rs/zenit/english.html">National Library of Serbia</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/4304140747_217e2cd5b8_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/4304140747_217e2cd5b8_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 4 - May 1921<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4304885262_6584cb22af_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4304885262_6584cb22af_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 8 - October 1921<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2752/4304885628_c7c68ff222_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2752/4304885628_c7c68ff222_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 10 - December 1921<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2508/4304883474_f0bc996b6f_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2508/4304883474_f0bc996b6f_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 13 - April 1922<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4304138605_49caeac84b_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4304138605_49caeac84b_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 15 - June 1922<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/4304138451_897f7237ae_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/4304138451_897f7237ae_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 17-18. - September-October 1922<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4304882936_89e511ecfa_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4304882936_89e511ecfa_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 19-20. - November-December 1922<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4304883792_bfb04d1914_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4304883792_bfb04d1914_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 25 - February 1924<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4304139495_7d75f9a575_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4304139495_7d75f9a575_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 36 - October 1925<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2748/4304140229_ecab41ff34_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2748/4304140229_ecab41ff34_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />No. 41 - May 1926<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4304922754_146a398e13_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4304922754_146a398e13_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Jo Klek, advertising, ink, watercolor, 1923.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4304141795_d9d7efe554_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4304141795_d9d7efe554_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Jo Klek - collage, Zenit no. 26-33, 1924. 26-33, 1924.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4304141737_f3c34a795f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 847px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4304141737_f3c34a795f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Michael S. Petrov, Poster for the first Zenitovu international exhibitions, kolađ, 1924.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2798/4304142095_13d51434c3_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 736px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2798/4304142095_13d51434c3_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />August Černigoj, come attraverso La Strada, collage, 1925.<br /><br />-<br /><br />everything above comes from the National Serbian Library's Digital Collection [<a href="http://digital.nb.rs/zenit/index.html">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-4524899663072112162010-01-22T11:45:00.000-08:002010-01-22T12:18:17.140-08:00SimplicissimusThere are already a lot of illustrations from this famous German political-satire magazine floating around the blogosphere, but a few more wont hurt. Here are some of my favorites:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2756/4296100972_27c466d186_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2756/4296100972_27c466d186_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4296101298_b0cfdfbb73_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4296101298_b0cfdfbb73_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4295354129_fc66f5f35f_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4295354129_fc66f5f35f_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4296100214_fa9451dbb2_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4296100214_fa9451dbb2_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4296100494_a497da4d57_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4296100494_a497da4d57_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4296100374_35308582ea_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4296100374_35308582ea_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2722/4296100620_8cf95c8345_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2722/4296100620_8cf95c8345_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2747/4296100728_ec437893bd_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2747/4296100728_ec437893bd_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4296100860_a3ab9ed6fd_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4296100860_a3ab9ed6fd_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4296101098_6bddb68098_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4296101098_6bddb68098_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2771/4295355651_daa2c11924_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2771/4295355651_daa2c11924_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/4295355771_371ca09549_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/4295355771_371ca09549_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4296101770_1f0134d5a8_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4296101770_1f0134d5a8_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4296099686_a0cb360497_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4296099686_a0cb360497_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4296101184_0e0f435b73_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4296101184_0e0f435b73_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4296100124_86cab5034d_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4296100124_86cab5034d_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-<br />see most of the issues at their amazing archive [<a href="http://www.simplicissimus.info/">link</a>]<br />Simplicissimus at wikipedia [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicissimus">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-86004716963978768472010-01-05T10:10:00.000-08:002010-01-05T10:15:26.210-08:00Swiss Museum PostersAll posters are from the <a href="http://ccsa-a.admin.ch/">Swiss Posters Collection</a> (note the watermark in the bottom-right).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4247063474_e79af27161_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4247063474_e79af27161_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />by Claude Kuhn; Natural History Museum of Bern, 1985 (see more by the amazing Claude Kuhn ---> [<a href="http://ccsa-a.admin.ch/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?sessionid=2010010519053230945&skin=affiches&lng=de&inst=consortium&host=biblio-a.admin.ch%2b3603%2bDEFAULT&sourcescreen=INITREQ&scant1=Kuhn,%20Claude&scanu1=1003&elementcount=1&t1=Kuhn,%20Claude&u1=1003&op1=0&pos=1&itempos=1&rootsearch=KEYWORD&function=INITREQ&search=AUTHID&authid=1459&authidu=1003">link</a>] ---> [<a href="http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex58_kun/ex58_kun.htm">link</a>])<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4246288025_1bc8d4ec8a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4246288025_1bc8d4ec8a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Reopening Geology, by Claude Kuhn; Planet and Space, Natural History Museum of the Civic Community of Berne, 1991<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4247063720_a7e902cccd_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4247063720_a7e902cccd_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />A Voyage of Discovery, by Claudia Schmauder; Johann Jacobs Museum, 1996<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2762/4246288761_5ac512636b_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2762/4246288761_5ac512636b_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Natural Garden; Natural History Museum of Lucerne, 1990<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2737/4247064154_abd00ef650_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2737/4247064154_abd00ef650_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Taxidermy and other methods of animal conservation; Natural History Museum, Freiburg, 1982<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4246289451_2be45d8927_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4246289451_2be45d8927_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Museum of Geneva, 1975(?) (more Museum of Geneva posters ---> [<a href="http://ccsa-a.admin.ch/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?sessionid=2009123020224816617&skin=affiches&lng=en&inst=consortium&host=biblio-a.admin.ch%2b3603%2bDEFAULT&search=KEYWORD&function=PREVPAGE&sourcescreen=NEXTPAGE&elementcount=3&t1=%22Mus%C3%A9um%20de%20Gen%C3%A8ve%22&u1=1035&op1=0&pos=1&itempos=1&rootsearch=KEYWORD">link</a>])<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/4246289191_ccb4451853_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/4246289191_ccb4451853_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />by Ralph Schraivoge; Museum of Design Zurich, 1991<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4247063976_f5002ae625_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4247063976_f5002ae625_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Archigram 1961-74, by Ralph Schraivogel; Museum of Design Zurich, 1995<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4246288681_5c74072f23_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4246288681_5c74072f23_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />1930-1970 Fashion; Museum Bellerive Zurich, 1982<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4246288549_72081c0879_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4246288549_72081c0879_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />by Ernst Keller; Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1952<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4246288213_b2bd641f81_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4246288213_b2bd641f81_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Everything in motion, advancement in nature and technology; Nature Museum Lucerne, 2001<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2708/4247062950_6e54dddc8f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2708/4247062950_6e54dddc8f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Beetles, their colors and shapes; Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Natural History Museum of the civic community of Berne, 1996<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4247064256_de42dda3a6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4247064256_de42dda3a6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Zaire, masks, figurines; Museum of Ethnology, Basel, 1986<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4247062818_4caa5749c6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4247062818_4caa5749c6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Bees, Museum of Natural History, 1982<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4247063022_f6cbb1f132_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4247063022_f6cbb1f132_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Wildlife Photography, Wildlife Biology; Natural History Museum of Lucerne, 1982<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4248553916_373b6ac31a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4248553916_373b6ac31a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />by C. Cebreros; Museum d'histoire, ville de Genève, 1998<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4248549222_bcb0b2239f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4248549222_bcb0b2239f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Eskimo Archeology of Alaska; Historical Museum of Bern, 1977<br /><br />-<br />all posters from the Swiss Posters Collection [<a href="http://ccsa-a.admin.ch/">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-70673938178739609412009-12-29T16:10:00.000-08:002009-12-29T16:10:27.993-08:00Lumpenball Flyers by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert'Lumpenball' is a popular(?) type of ball in Germany where guests come dressed in ragged and tattered clothes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4226895024_bdd90af31c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4226895024_bdd90af31c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />2. Lumpenball am Fastnachtssonntag im Industriehof (Second Ragged Clothes Ball on Carnival Sunday at the Industriehof), c. 1925<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4226895282_76aaf3875f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4226895282_76aaf3875f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /> An die Freunde des Lumpenballs!! Das Sommerfest der progressiven Künstler ist am Samstag den 14. Juli (To the Friends of the Ragged Clothes Ball!! The Progressive Artists Summer Party Is on Saturday, July 14), 1928<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4226127723_74c6d47b53_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4226127723_74c6d47b53_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Da ist er wieder Hurra der Lumpenball No 1 im Dekke Tommes am Samstag, den 19. Januar (There It Is Again The Ragged Clothes Ball No. 1 at the Dekke Tommes on Saturday, January 19), 1929<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2494/4226895546_d508d234e8_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2494/4226895546_d508d234e8_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Wo verbringen Sie die kurzen Tage? Der Lumpenball ist Fastnachtssamstag Fastnachtsmontag Fastnachtsdienstag am Dekke Tommes (Where Do You Spend the Short Days? The Ragged Clothes Ball is on Carnival Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday at the Dekke Tommes), 1930<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4226896914_5e8dc69d28_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4226896914_5e8dc69d28_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Der erste Lumpenball ist am Samstag den 17. Januar (The First Ragged Clothes Ball Is on Saturday January 17), 1931<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2541/4226896696_dbbc743406_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2541/4226896696_dbbc743406_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Der 2te Lumpenball ist am Samstag den 31. Januar (The Second Ragged Clothes Ball Is on Saturday, January 31), 1931<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2637/4226127065_26eedf7f73_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2637/4226127065_26eedf7f73_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />3x Lumpenball (Three Times Ragged Clothes Ball), 1931<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2640/4226127229_fb16b26883_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2640/4226127229_fb16b26883_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Der Lumpenball das Fest der progressiven Künstler ist am Samstag den 16. Januar, No 20 (The Ragged Clothes Ball, Party of the Progressive Artists, is on Saturday, January 16, No. 20), 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2775/4226896214_e41d68eb51_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2775/4226896214_e41d68eb51_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Lumpenball No 22, 23, 24- Die Fester der Progressiven Künstler (Ragged Clothes Ball Nos. 22, 23, 24- A Party for Progressive Artists), c. 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2732/4226894788_b04fa35553_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2732/4226894788_b04fa35553_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Der Lumpenball in Silber, der 25. Lumpenball am 28. Januar (The Ragged Clothes Ball in Silver, The Twenty-fifth Ball on January 28), 1933<br /><br />-<br />More of Franz Wilhelm Seiwert's works at the MOMA's website [<a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A8238&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-61709786731983275082009-12-28T19:13:00.000-08:002009-12-29T09:58:01.509-08:00Elaine Lustig CohenYesterday <a href="http://thesilverliningblog.com/2009/12/27/elaine-lustig-cohen/">TheSilverLining</a> posted some great links to Elaine Lustig Cohen works. Here are some more of her works that I have not seen posted elsewhere.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2736/4222251159_92772fc6a2_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2736/4222251159_92772fc6a2_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A Type Specimen page</span>, 1950<br /><br />"Elaine Lustig Cohen (b. 1927) is the pioneering female graphic designer who incorporated the aesthetic vocabulary of European modernism into American graphic design, during the 1950s and 1960s. After training as a painter, she developed her design skills working with Alvin Lustig (whom she married in 1948). Following Lustig's premature death in 1955, she took control of the studio and between 1955 and 1961 produced a distinctive series of covers for publishing houses Meridan Books and New Directions. With their strong concepts, abstract forms and typographic invention, they represented a break from the prevailing tradition of pictorial illustration in book-jacket design. Her ability to summarize the content of text in the cover design was further aided when, working for architects including Eero Saarinen and Philip Johnson she produced signage schemes intended to express a building's character. She designed many posters and catalogues for New York-based arts organizations, including the American Center for the Arts, the Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Jewish Museum. She married Arthur A. Cohen, publisher of Meridian Books; in 1973, they established Ex Libris, New York, a bookshop and gallery specializing in rare volumes of the European avant-garde. In 1995 her contribution to graphic design was acknowledge by an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York." (Livingston, 2003, 51). She continues to paint and create dynamic graphic collage-based work and is represented by Julie Saul Gallery, New York. Elaine Lustig Cohen donated her collection to RIT in 2008. " -<a href="http://library.rit.edu/gda/designer/elaine-lustig-cohen">Graphic Design Archive Online</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4223014244_8a2b179b4c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4223014244_8a2b179b4c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">7th Annual Purim Ball</span>, The Jewish Museum, 1963<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4223015624_c8a479c9d9_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4223015624_c8a479c9d9_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hans Hoffman</span>, 1997<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2540/4223458593_45361cd1d7_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2540/4223458593_45361cd1d7_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Primary Structures: Younger American & British Sculptors</span>, 1966<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4223016932_eb59a5e164_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4223016932_eb59a5e164_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Literature in America</span>, 1957<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4224278464_c854491cfb_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4224278464_c854491cfb_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Philosophy of Spinoza</span>, 1958<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4224216008_9f016e73ab_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4224216008_9f016e73ab_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Federalist</span>, 1961<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2555/4224217364_51208689fe_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2555/4224217364_51208689fe_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dangling Man</span>, 1959<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2501/4224217002_401b1342d8_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2501/4224217002_401b1342d8_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Max Ernst: Sculpture and Recent Painting</span>, The Jewish Museum, 1966<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2555/4222253065_66d5950726_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2555/4222253065_66d5950726_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Jonathan Edwards</span>, 1959<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/4222257161_23f8c1e3b1_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/4222257161_23f8c1e3b1_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Silver and Judaica Collection</span>, The Jewish Museum, 1963<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/4222256413_14e6387e1c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/4222256413_14e6387e1c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Recollections of Alexis De Tocqueville</span>, 1958<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4223019522_880d6b5528_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4223019522_880d6b5528_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Ideal Reader</span>, 1997<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4223018844_bee2d2a129_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4223018844_bee2d2a129_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Disinherited Mind, 1958<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4222253235_6330d27975_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4222253235_6330d27975_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Joseph Conrad</span>, 1947 (co-designed with Alvin Lustig)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4223018480_6308799d3a_o.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4223018480_6308799d3a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Book of Jazz</span>, 1958<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2635/4223017380_cb1d6ee691_o.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2635/4223017380_cb1d6ee691_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy in the Middle Ages</span>, 1959<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/4222254647_de34dc7605_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/4222254647_de34dc7605_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Scenes From the Drama of European Literature</span>, 1959<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2604/4223016154_e278c99e19_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2604/4223016154_e278c99e19_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Jerusalem and Rome: The Writings of Josephus</span>, 1960<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2523/4223014536_de2416a4e7_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2523/4223014536_de2416a4e7_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Clear Writing</span>, 1959<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4223015098_ccfdaa9b37_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4223015098_ccfdaa9b37_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">God and the Way of Knowning</span>, 1957<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2623/4224216550_fa8884c8a1_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2623/4224216550_fa8884c8a1_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Artists and Enemies - Three Novelas</span>, 1997<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4224216668_a338d9fa2b_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4224216668_a338d9fa2b_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />New Year's Party Invitation, 1958<br /><br />-<br />see more of Elaine Lustig Cohen's book covers @ Scott Lindberg's excellent flickr page [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sllab/sets/72157608515410655/">link</a>]<br />and at Graphic Design Archive Online [<a href="http://library.rit.edu/gda/designer/elaine-lustig-cohen">link</a>]<br />also see thesilverlining's post which inspired me to finally post these [<a href="http://thesilverliningblog.com/2009/12/27/elaine-lustig-cohen/">link</a>]<br />there are a few more of her works at my flickr page [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/sets/72157622963339831/">link</a>]<br />and even more works at Julie Saul Gallery [<a href="http://www.saulgallery.com/cohen/statement.html">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-56260258864796185072009-11-01T20:15:00.000-08:002009-11-01T20:15:20.415-08:00¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3519/4067205514_900c7cdcba_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3519/4067205514_900c7cdcba_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Muerte en cruceta</span>; by Lola Cueto, 1947<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2686/4066072957_fcb5dbebf7_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2686/4066072957_fcb5dbebf7_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">La bohemia de la muerte;</span> anonymous, 1958<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4066829030_e50bd138a7_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4066829030_e50bd138a7_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">El crepusculo de la noche</span>, in Tricolor no. 35; July-August 1924<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/4066822458_d55bb0123b_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/4066822458_d55bb0123b_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">El Hospital Juárez - (Ironia);</span> by Carlos Neve, 1951<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/4066088053_6575fc3c7d_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/4066088053_6575fc3c7d_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />detail of <span style="font-style: italic;">Calaveras televisiosas todo por un hoyito</span>; by Leopoldo Méndez and Mariana Yampolsky, 1949<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2540/4066828652_3c7996aa8d_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2540/4066828652_3c7996aa8d_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Levantaos de sus fosas, calaveras, que aquí se halla el mayor de los troneras</span>; by Manuel Manilla, 1971<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2432/4066086249_d728b0bf6e_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2432/4066086249_d728b0bf6e_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Levantaos de sus fosas, calaveras, que aqui se halla el mayor de los troneras</span>, by Manuel Manilla, 1904<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/4066085085_b53235ece6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/4066085085_b53235ece6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from <span style="font-style: italic;">Veinte años de vida del Taller de Gráfica Popular</span>; Andrea Gómez, 1957<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4066075745_eecc827c76_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4066075745_eecc827c76_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />by Julio Ruelas, 1903<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2748/4066826792_b827b48b65_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2748/4066826792_b827b48b65_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from L'ABC no 15; by José Clemente Orozco, November, 1 1925<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2800/4066084369_3dfa315d41_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2800/4066084369_3dfa315d41_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from Don Timorato no. 19; by Hector Ramírez, Ram, November 3 1944<br /><br />-<br />all images are from the stunning book <span style="font-style: italic;">La muerte en el impreso mexicano / Images of Death in Mexican Prints</span> by Mercurio López Casillas [<a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL23194106M/La_muerte_en_el_impreso_mexicano">link</a>]<br />for more prints see Doce Palabras excellent post 'Diálogo con los muertos' [<a href="http://selvahernandez.blogspot.com/2009/01/dilogo-con-los-muertos.html">link</a>]<br />also see Morbid Anatonmy's 'La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte (The Astounding Life of Death)' post on Joaquin Bolaños [<a href="http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-portentosa-vida-de-la-muerte.html">link</a>]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2760/4066549795_f85e0e1b52_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2760/4066549795_f85e0e1b52_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-3390473839688302452009-10-27T09:53:00.000-07:002009-10-27T10:06:20.191-07:00Avant-garde's LetterheadThe following are from Elaine Lustig Cohen and Ellen Lupton's book <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL8691173M/Letters_from_the_Avant-Garde">Letters from the Avant Garde: Modern Graphic Design</a>,</span><span> most of which came from </span>Elaine Lustig Cohen's personal collection. Elaine Lustig Cohen was an excellent artist/designer [more on that in a later post] who was married to the great Alvin Lustig. She and her second husband, author/publisher Arthur Cohen, began collecting letterhead in the 1970s for their <span style="font-style: italic;">Ex Libris</span> gallery, but the letters rarely sold. Although collectors at the time tended to view them as unimportant, they offer an unique and personal perspective into many of the most important artistic movements of the early twentieth century.<br />-<br /><br />"A global network of avant-garde movements flourished during the first half of the twentieth century, connecting artist and designers across Europe and the United States. Written correspondence, presented on dramatically designed stationery, was a vital part of the infrastructure of this international community. Artist and designers translated concepts from painting, poetry, and architecture onto the commercial format of the letterhead, creating, in effect, ‘corporate identities’ for modernism. Stationery for Futurism, Dada, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and other groups and institutions served as typographic manifestos for the avant-garde. Some of the works drew on the normative conventions of commercial stationery – often with a flash of irony – while others reflected new concepts of typographic rationality." - Ellen Lupton<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/4049005622_92138fa8da_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/4049005622_92138fa8da_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Bruno Munari, <span style="font-style: italic;">Mazzotti</span>. Italy, 1934<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/4048262845_46f1fc1a9c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/4048262845_46f1fc1a9c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />FT Martinetti, drawing by Giacomo Ball, <span style="font-style: italic;">Movimento Futurista</span>. Rome, 1939<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4049007376_ed51cbd372_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4049007376_ed51cbd372_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Fortunato Depero, <span style="font-style: italic;">Depero</span>. Italy (Trentino), c. 1927 (Collection Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4048258967_b2c2c7df63_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4048258967_b2c2c7df63_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Anonymous, <span style="font-style: italic;">Fernando Cervelli</span>. Rome, 1932 (Collection Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities, Santa Monica)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2528/4049012116_75fc441f73_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2528/4049012116_75fc441f73_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Tristan Tzara, MoUvEmEnT DADA. Paris c. 1918<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2490/4048263439_f4b455b0bf_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2490/4048263439_f4b455b0bf_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Johannes Baader and Raoul Hausmann, Club Dada postcard. Berlin, c. 1919<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2428/4049004818_e420e056c1_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2428/4049004818_e420e056c1_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Anonymous, <span style="font-style: italic;">Cause Le Surréalism</span> (a Surrealist association). Paris, 1940s<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2651/4049005124_1f0c470c4e_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2651/4049005124_1f0c470c4e_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Benjamin Péret. Paris (Collection W Michael Sheehe, New York)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4048258517_7d0a4a40a6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4048258517_7d0a4a40a6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Alexander Rodchenko, <span style="font-style: italic;">Dobrolet State Merchant Air Service</span>. Moscow, 1923<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4048260713_67dc9f6fb8_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4048260713_67dc9f6fb8_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />El Lissitzky. Moscow, 1924<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3504/4048261193_dca40e16fe_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3504/4048261193_dca40e16fe_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />El Lissitzky, <span style="font-style: italic;">Vesc/Object/Gegenstand</span>. Berlin, 1922 (from the collection of Hans Berndt, Germany)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3481/4049010446_e5f607edd4_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3481/4049010446_e5f607edd4_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Theo Van Doesburg,<span style="font-style: italic;"> De Stijl NB</span> postcard. Netherlands (The Hague and Leiden), 1920<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2672/4048264641_4181aaa203_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2672/4048264641_4181aaa203_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Piet Zwart, <span style="font-style: italic;">Wij Nu Experimenteel Tooneel</span>. The Hague, 1925<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2607/4048429289_47e9c7a2c1_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2607/4048429289_47e9c7a2c1_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Piet Zwart, <span style="font-style: italic;">Laga-Compangnie</span>. The Hague, 1922<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/4048265759_8408304360_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/4048265759_8408304360_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Thon De Does, <span style="font-style: italic;">Reclame Ontwerper</span>. Rotterdam, 1930<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2502/4049009462_e07794fced_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2502/4049009462_e07794fced_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Josef Peeters, <span style="font-style: italic;">Het Overzicht</span> postcard. Antwerp, 1923<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4048422403_6d5971a256_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4048422403_6d5971a256_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Kurt Schwitters, <span style="font-style: italic;">Merz Werbezentrale</span> envelope. Hanover, 1924<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4049009166_8bfccd4e2d_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4049009166_8bfccd4e2d_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Joost Schmidt, <span style="font-style: italic;">Das Bauhaus in Dessau</span> postcard. Dessau, 1925-26<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/4048267143_a8e332f482_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/4048267143_a8e332f482_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Herbert Bayer, <span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Ernst Kraus Glasmaler Weimar.</span> Weimar, 1924 (Collection W Michael Sheehe, New York)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4049012400_c32f965eee_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4049012400_c32f965eee_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />E McKnight Kauffer, <span style="font-style: italic;">Lumium Limited</span>. London, 1935 (Collection Cooper-Hewitt, Nat. Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution)<br /><br />-<br />all images from Elaine Lustig Cohen and Ellen Lupton's book <span style="font-style: italic;">Letters from the Avant Garde: Modern Graphic Design</span> [<a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL8691173M/Letters_from_the_Avant-Garde">link</a>]<br />also see the blog <span style="font-style: italic;">Billheads & Receipts</span> [<a href="http://billheads.blogspot.com/">link</a>]<br />David A Bontrager has a remarkable collection of trucking company letterhead [<a href="http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/dab_letterheads1.htm">link</a>]<br />letterhead at <span style="font-style: italic;">amassblog </span>[<a href="http://amassblog.com/?cat=14">link</a>]<br />Insurance Letterhead and Covers [<a href="http://www.immediateannuities.com/museumofinsurance/covers_and_letterhead/">link</a>]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2719/4049012780_14da0620fc_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 220px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2719/4049012780_14da0620fc_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-41913995465448611332009-10-12T17:53:00.000-07:002009-10-18T17:55:12.202-07:00More from the 1905-1906 Russian Underground PressA few months back I <a href="http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/2009/04/russian-revolutionary-periodicals-1905.html">posted</a> images from 1905-1906 Russian revolutionary periodicals that I found at Yale University’s <a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/russiangraphic.html">digital library</a>. Recently I (accidentally) came across a related book called <span style="font-style: italic;">Blood and Laughter: Caricatures from the 1905 Revolution</span> that contains more illustrations of the 1905-1906 Russian underground press.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2774/4023768573_e97e4fce49_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2774/4023768573_e97e4fce49_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from Leshii (Woodgoblin) No. 2, 1906<br /><br />"Sunday 9 January 1905: Hundreds of thousand of workers assemble in the streets of St Petersburg. They are in their Sunday best and accompanied by their elderly relatives and children. There are no banners or slogans though some carry icons or church emblems, for this is to be a peaceful demonstration led by an Orthodox priest, Father Gapon. They set off for the Winter Palace, bearing to the Tsar their petition for a constitution. ‘Sire!!’ it reads. ‘We workers have come to you to seek justice and protection. We are in great poverty, we are oppressed and weighed down with labors beyond our strength. We are insulted, we are not recognized as human beings…’<br /><br />For two cold hours they stand waiting in the snow for Tsar Nicholas to appear and receive their petition. A shot rings out, and they stamp their feet. Another, and they laugh that it must be blanks. A third, and suddenly women and children slump lifeless int eh snow. Still they assure themselves that this must be a mistake, for the Tsar would not shoot down unarmed civilians. But now the gendarmes are galloping in the crowd, and the slaughter has begun. The shooting continues all day long. The dead are counted in the hundreds, the wounded in the thousands, their blood spilt on the Schlusselberg Highway, the Troitsky Bridge and the Nevsky Gates. But the police cart away the bodies so quickly that it is impossible to know the full toll.<br /><br />Bloody Sunday killed superstition, the old faith in a just Tsar, and unleashed a tumultuous rage among the masses. Father Gapon was soon forgotten, ‘his priestly rode’, wrote Trotsky, ‘a mere prop in the drama whose true protagonist was the proletariat’. A huge wave of strikes swept the country, paralyzing more than 100 towns and drawing in a million men and women. Throughout the summer peasants rioted while terrorists struck at figures of authority.<br /><br />Alongside the struggle in street and factory was the struggle for the free press. Ministers and clerics suffered assassination more by the pen than the bullet as the revolution strove for the expression of powerful emotions long suppressed. A flood of satirical journals poured from the presses, honouring the dead and vilifying the might. Drawings of frenzied immediacy and extraordinary technical virtuosity were combines with prose and verse written in a popular underground language, veiled in allegory, metaphor and reference to the past.<br /><br />Russia had a rich history of satirical journalism. In the 1770s, in the reign of Katherine the Great, an elite of intellectuals close to the court developed a new ‘aesopian’ language – deeply subversive to the enlightened autocracy – to express their opposition to the old regime. The satire of the court flourished until the shadow of revolution in Europe drove the Empress to suppress it. Again in the 1860s highly popular satirical journals sprang up, drawing consciously on their courtly predecessors to curse the Crimean War and Tsar Alexander II’s empty promises of reform. While populist revolutionaries went ‘to the people’ to make common causes with the peasants, radical journalist set out to collect folk-stories, popular sayings, soldiers’ songs and workers’ ballads. The old allegorical vocabulary was joined to the language of popular satire. By the 1870s these journals has been closed down, but this language was now part of the everyday speech. Satirical writing returned to the underground, where it flourished, rooted in popular protest, until 1905. It was then that satire achieved its full power.<br /><br />Fore a few brief months the journals spoke with a great and unprecedented rage that neither arrest nor exile could silence. At first their approach was oblique, their allusions veiled, and they often fell victim to the censor’s pencil. But people had suffered censorship for too long. Satirist constantly expanded their territory and their targets of attack, demolishing one obstacle after another as they went, thriving on censorship. The workers’ movement grew in boldness, culminating in the birth of the St Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies, the people’s government. For fifty days the Tsar and his ministers were confronted by another power, another law. Journalist and printers seized the right to publish without submitting to the censor. The satirical journals then reached their apotheosis, until the revolution died as it had risen, bathed in blood.<br /><br />More clearly than any party resolution or government proclamation, the caricatures of 1905 tell the story of that heroic failure – and they are a symptom of that failure too…they chronicle with incredible vividness that moment of the transition from Tsarist despotism to Bolshevik revolution." -by Cathy Porter, from <span style="font-style: italic;">Images of Revolution: Graphic Art from 1905 Russia</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2651/4005590942_7aa88a4990_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2651/4005590942_7aa88a4990_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from K Svetu (Towards the Light) No. 3 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/4004822205_939c95663b_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/4004822205_939c95663b_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"In the State Duma. 'Interpellation'"by Alexander Kudinov. Leshii No. 1, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/4005611282_5bfb382b66_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/4005611282_5bfb382b66_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from K Svetu (Towards the Light) No 2, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/4024528872_6fafa89a23_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/4024528872_6fafa89a23_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Strana Mechty (Land of Dreams) No. 1, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/4005895332_cefd4e59bd_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/4005895332_cefd4e59bd_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"The Moscow Vampire" - Volshebny Fonar No. 2, 1906 (depiction of Governor-General Fedor Vasilevich Dubasov)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4024532988_ff05c8fe2f_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4024532988_ff05c8fe2f_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from Kosa No. 4, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/4005599202_d405f33050_o.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/4005599202_d405f33050_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from Pchela No. 3, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2673/4005607820_4211d8e6e7_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2673/4005607820_4211d8e6e7_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from Zarnitsy No. 8, 1906 (Witte and Durnovo burning the books)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/4005595506_db0c077e18_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/4005595506_db0c077e18_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Krasny Smekh (Red Laughter) No. 2 1906, by Boris Kustodiev<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/4004835561_4d35645aa7_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/4004835561_4d35645aa7_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Satiricheskoe Obozrenie (Satirical Review) No. 1, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2615/4005798814_9b12e5be5a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2615/4005798814_9b12e5be5a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"The Triumphant Pig" - Maski (Masks) No. 8, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2549/4005610248_6b5830c26d_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2549/4005610248_6b5830c26d_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"The Treacherous Neva Reflected Everything" - Volshebny Fonar (Magic Lantern). No. 1, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2518/4004822643_53e46def78_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2518/4004822643_53e46def78_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"Christmas Tree" - Burelom (Storm-Wood), Christmas 1905<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3508/4005585566_c33e2285d0_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3508/4005585566_c33e2285d0_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"31 December 1905" Burelom (Storm-Wood), Christmas 1905. Facing is Drubasov, the Governor-General of Moscow and organizer of the suppression of the Moscow uprising, and Prime Minister Witte is shown with his back turned, playing with death.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3484/4005606150_c7ea4bdc01_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3484/4005606150_c7ea4bdc01_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from Zarevo (Dawn) No. 3, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2554/4005021307_9d469e1368_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2554/4005021307_9d469e1368_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />from Zarnitsy (Summer Lightning) No. 1, 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2602/4005588764_657cc7e1df_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2602/4005588764_657cc7e1df_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />-<br /><br />All of the images come from David King and Cathy Porter's <span style="font-style: italic;">Blood and Laughter : Caricatures From the 1905 Revolution</span> [<a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL3242078M/Blood_laughter">link</a>]<br />I haven't yet got my hands on it but David King and Cathy Porter also published <span style="font-style: italic;">Images of Revolution: Graphic Art from 1905 Russia</span> [<a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL3186700M/Images_of_revolution">link</a>]<br />also, once again, see Yale University's collection at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library [<a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/russiangraphic.html">link</a>]<br />my previous post on the subject [<a href="http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/2009/04/russian-revolutionary-periodicals-1905.html">link</a>]<br />see Trixie Treat's post on the journals [<a href="http://trixietreats.blogspot.com/2009/03/russian-zines-revolution-of-1905.html">link</a>]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2614/4004840739_6a7dd87649_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2614/4004840739_6a7dd87649_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-11629174039019979042009-10-06T22:21:00.000-07:002009-10-19T15:39:59.165-07:00Relating to Quacks, Quackery and Nostrums, Part 1"Quack is a pejorative term, disparagingly, albeit sometimes defensively, applied by a member of the establishment, the orthodox, regular, professional, credentialed and accepted class to describe the unorthodox, unlicensed, disapproved member of a fringe or irregular group. It is a term of condemnation employed when one wants to belittle another. Above all, the term has become associated with the sellers of medicines and the marketers of medical systems, those with the "true" method of curing specific ills or, in an earlier day, <span style="font-style: italic;">all </span>the ills of mankind.<br /><br />While the origins of the term are obscure, the term "quack" probably came from the Dutch <span style="font-style: italic;">Quacksalber</span>, a charlatan, mountebank, empiric or itinerant seller of medicine. It may also have been derived from the sounds made by a duck, the term applied to the hawker of nostrums whose excessive zeal in describing the merits of his or her cure may well have sounds similar to the squawking of a duck. The chatter of the quack, in most cases more like torrent s of words, would have been familiar to both town and rural populations even in the ancient periods, for quacks have long been well known in every society. Over the past four hundred years they have been representative figures in folktales, stories and especially in prints, drawings and political caricatures..." –William H. Helfand, from <a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL22493629M/Quack_Quack_Quack_the_sellers_of_nostrums_in_prints_posters_ephemera_books.">Quack Quack Quack</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2456/3986934817_9f4ec5ac4c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2456/3986934817_9f4ec5ac4c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Detail from "Quid hic nobis lumine satium", c. 1670, Anonymous<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/3987686948_3240d93063_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2630/3987686948_3240d93063_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Detail from advertisement for Dr. Rock's Tincture, 1738, Anonymous<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3462/3986932909_34d014f2c7_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3462/3986932909_34d014f2c7_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"The Dance of Death: the Undertaker and the Quack." 1816, by Thomas Rowlandson (from Wellcome Library)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3420/3987689094_a4820bcc9e_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3420/3987689094_a4820bcc9e_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"Nancy Linton: A faithful representation of her actual appearance & condition after having been cured by the use of Swann's Panacea", c. 1833, by C Hullmandel (from a drawing by WH Kearney)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2476/3986937045_14ecb65237_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2476/3986937045_14ecb65237_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"Singular Effects of the Universal Vegetable Pills on a Green Crocer! A Fact!", 1841, by Charles Jameson Grant<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/3986934275_710f97403e_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/3986934275_710f97403e_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Detail from "The Great Lozenge Maker", 1858, by John Leech - from Punch<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/3989476602_d647a2a582_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/3989476602_d647a2a582_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"Dr S.B. Collins' Painless Opium Antidote" Advertisement, 1874<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3469/3987691850_22acd2acb2_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3469/3987691850_22acd2acb2_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"Quackery - Medical Minstrel Performing for the Benefit of Their Former Patients - No other Dead-heads Admitted", 1879, by Joseph Keppler - from Puck<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2661/3986937509_094e4d9b71_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2661/3986937509_094e4d9b71_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"Death's-Head Doctors - Many Paths to the Grave", 1881, by Joseph Keppler - from Puck<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2606/3986941697_fda04b0c2c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2606/3986941697_fda04b0c2c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Detail of "Death's-Head Doctors - Many Paths to the Grave", 1881, by Joseph Keppler - from Puck<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/3986941073_c1185c375c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/3986941073_c1185c375c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Detail of "Death's-Head Doctors - Many Paths to the Grave", 1881, by Joseph Keppler - from Puck<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3986940427_0348f11300_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3986940427_0348f11300_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"Death in the Pestle", c. 1885, by Henry Nappenbach - from The Wasp<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2551/3987694824_a92152ef3c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2551/3987694824_a92152ef3c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Detail of "Death in the Pestle", c. 1885, by Henry Nappenbach - from The Wasp<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/3986939213_61de5d6049_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/3986939213_61de5d6049_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"The Travelling Quack", 1889, by Tom Merry<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2531/3988149970_f5db3c3dd2_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 548px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2531/3988149970_f5db3c3dd2_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />An itinerant medicine vendor known as Medicine Jack carrying his wares in a knapsack on his back. (from Wellcome Library)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/3986936269_8c4f91f4a2_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/3986936269_8c4f91f4a2_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"William Radam, Microbes and the Microbe Killer", 1890<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3987693012_f852ebf9ea_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3987693012_f852ebf9ea_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />"The Great American Fraud, an investigative article by Samuel Hopkins Adams", 1907<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3988730053_0ed0ef038a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 411px; height: 548px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3988730053_0ed0ef038a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Quack advertisement for the cure of cancer, 1912 (from Wellcome Library)<br /><br />-<br />Unless noted all of these come from <span style="font-style: italic;">Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera, & Books</span> by William Helfand - @ Open Library [<a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL22493629M/Quack_Quack_Quack_the_sellers_of_nostrums_in_prints_posters_ephemera_books.">link</a>]<br />Wellcome Library has a good collection of quackery related images [<a href="http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/">link</a>]<br />The excellent blog The Quack Doctor [<a href="http://quackdoctor.wordpress.com/">link</a>]<br />The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices [<a href="http://www.museumofquackery.com/">link</a>]<br />see the blog Quack Cogitations [<a href="http://quackcogitations.blogspot.com/">link</a>]<br />Quack cartoons at cartoonstock [<a href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/vintage/directory/q/quacks.asp">link</a>]<br />BBC slideshow: Quacks and Cures [<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8129447.stm">link</a>]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3987691062_7a0a20355d_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 213px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3987691062_7a0a20355d_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-21349440074573989232009-09-05T19:15:00.000-07:002009-09-05T19:15:51.638-07:00Year of the Monkey PostcardsAbout a week ago Amy at <a href="http://aqua-velvet.com/">Aqua Velvet</a> posted some remarkable <a href="http://aqua-velvet.com/2009/08/the-japanese-postcard/">Japanese Postcards</a> from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Here are more Japanese postcards from the same collection, all related to the <a href="http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/zodiac/Monkey.htm">Year of the Monkey</a> ( <a title="Year of the Monkey (sarudoshi) in Japanese" target="_blank" href="http://www.gokanji.com/cgi-bin/j-e/inline/dosearch?sDict=on&H=PW&L=J&T=sarudoshi&WC=none&FG=w&BG=b&S=26&I=on&IK=on&LI=on"><img longdesc="Year of the Monkey (sarudoshi) in Japanese" src="http://www.stockkanji.com/Names/images/s/sarudoshi_02.gif" /></a>).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/3890714669_091fab58b2_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/3890714669_091fab58b2_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Monkey Trainer from Towa shinpo, Ogawa Usen, 1908<br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Born 2004, 1992, 1980, 1968, 1956, 1944, 1932, 1920, 1908. People born in the year of the Monkey are the erratic geniuses of the Zodiac cycle. They are clever and skillful in grand-scale operations and are smart when making financial deals. They are inventive, original and are able to solve the most difficult problems with ease.</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">" -</span></span>Namiko Abe, <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><a href="http://japanese.about.com/od/japanesecultur1/a/100498.htm"><span style="font-family: georgia;">about.com</span></a><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3424/3891507066_fdc4696851_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3424/3891507066_fdc4696851_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Monkey in Morning Suit of New Year's cards, unknown artist, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/3891506794_d43f605738_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/3891506794_d43f605738_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Monkey Celebrating with Ozoni of New Year's cards, unknown artist, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/3890715831_937deddbd6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/3890715831_937deddbd6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Monkey's Baseball of New Year's cards, unknown artist, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3891506600_3b77612b95_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3891506600_3b77612b95_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Monkey's Rugby of New Year's cards, unknown artist, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3434/3891507542_0487e7f16d_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3434/3891507542_0487e7f16d_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Monkey Pounding Rice (Osaru no mochitsuki) of New Year's cards, unknown artist, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2498/3891522514_749a34384a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2498/3891522514_749a34384a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Monkey's Playing Ball (Osaru no hogan nage) of New Year's cards, unknown artist, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3421/3890716379_de2205cb4f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3421/3890716379_de2205cb4f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Monkey and Crab, Takahashi Haruka, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2623/3891508786_a98903a129_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2623/3891508786_a98903a129_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Three Monkeys with Spade Shape Motifs, Takahashi Haruka, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/3890717199_bdc4967fa8_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/3890717199_bdc4967fa8_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Monkey in the Guise of a Shinto Priest, Takahashi Haruka, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2584/3891508170_0708f95810_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2584/3891508170_0708f95810_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Takahashi Haruka, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3469/3890716871_b2bccdf99a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3469/3890716871_b2bccdf99a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Takahashi Haruka, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3511/3891508482_704ddd4bc7_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3511/3891508482_704ddd4bc7_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Takahashi Haruka, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/3890714975_8d0b11b0f6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/3890714975_8d0b11b0f6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Takahashi Haruka, 1932<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2597/3891506182_c550ce444a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2597/3891506182_c550ce444a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Takahashi Haruka, 1932 [<a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01820/images/mojo.gif">?</a>]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3891508982_39ef2eaffa_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3891508982_39ef2eaffa_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Three Monkeys: See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil, Takahashi Haruka, 1932<br /><br />-<br />Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Japanese Postcards Collection [<a href="http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=2&coll_package=26169&coll_start=1">link</a>]<br />Information about the Year of the Monkey in the Japanese Zodiac @ about [<a href="http://japanese.about.com/od/japanesecultur1/a/100498.htm">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-52270896378091864032009-09-02T09:22:00.000-07:002009-09-05T11:39:18.787-07:00Collages of Wilfried "Sätty" PodriechI first saw the work of Wilfried "Sätty" Podriech a few weeks back at the <a href="http://www.californiamuseum.org/exhibits/gold-bay">California History Museum</a>, which was showing his collages of Gold Rush illustrations. They were surreal and fantastic and I went hunting for more. Here are some of my favorites of his work (that I couldn't already find online) from his books Time Zone and The Cosmic Bicycle.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070300_cbb8180157_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070300_cbb8180157_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />"Sätty (Wilfried Podriech) was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1939. As a child he played in the ruins of the city, which was heavily bombed during World War Two. After three years of apprenticeship in mechanical engineering, he worked in Canada, then moved to San Francisco in 1961. For a few years he worked as a steward on the Pacific cruise ships of the Matson Line, and later as a heating and ventilating systems designer.<br /><br />In San Francisco he lived in North Beach, and associated with artists and bohemians of the Beat Generation. Since childhood he had demonstrated artistic potential. In 1966, inspired by the openness and creativity of San Francisco’s emergent Hippie culture, he began making pictorial collages. Some of these were sold as poster size prints, which were then very popular. He became a prolific artist, concerned with fine technique and with expression of the broadest range of human experience. He intended his art to engage the imagination and counteract the pernicious stimulus-response programming of media advertising.<br /><br />Sätty created many colorful artworks and lithographic prints, and hundreds of black and white collages. During the 1970s many were used as illustrations in both the counter culture and establishment periodicals. He produced two collage books, The Cosmic Bicycle and Time Zone, a pictorial allegory. He created illustrations for the comprehensive treatise, The Annotated Dracula and for The Illustrated Edgar Allen Poe, a book of stories he selected. During the late 1970s until his death in 1982, he produced numerous collages inspired by events in San Francisco’s often dramatic, unruly history, from the Gold Rush to the 1890s. Many of these occasionally bizarre images have recently been published in Visions of Frisco, by Regent Press, Berkeley.<br /><br />In a review of Sätty’s art, S.F. Chronicle art critic Thomas Albright stated, “His work evidenced his Germanic roots with a somber, dreamlike realm of utopian, surrealist fantasy spiced by disarming accents of the bizarre and grotesque.” His art has been exhibited in many galleries and museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the National Museum of Art, Belgrade; and the National Museum, Warsaw."<br />-by Walter Medeiros, The Archive of Counter Culture Art. (via <a href="http://www.iwantyoumagazine.com/satty/">I Want You Magazine</a>)<br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">from The Cosmic Bicycle (1971) -</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070271_84f5dc1da4_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070271_84f5dc1da4_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079515_f0a50f65cd_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079515_f0a50f65cd_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079593_9c824cd87e_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079593_9c824cd87e_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070313_28a6d018b9_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070313_28a6d018b9_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8071746_1f1077bbbd_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8071746_1f1077bbbd_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070298_371a5d7ab7_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070298_371a5d7ab7_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070311_2949a7028a.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070311_2949a7028a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079639_f7c5e56fb4_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079639_f7c5e56fb4_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070294_1b78ac26d5_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070294_1b78ac26d5_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070292_90a5b0ba56_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8070292_90a5b0ba56_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">from Time Zone (1973) - </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8071094_3a8d88084a_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8071094_3a8d88084a_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8071101_1e0b79349c_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8071101_1e0b79349c_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079494_7ba22bfd3d_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079494_7ba22bfd3d_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079490_6ed1b72fdd_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8079490_6ed1b72fdd_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p>not a collage, but an illustration from <span style="font-style: italic;">The Annotated Dracula</span> (1975) that I can't help but post -<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8071098_b5dcfc26bc_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8071098_b5dcfc26bc_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-<br />Information, interviews, articles, and exhibition at zpub [<a href="http://www.zpub.com/satty/index.html">link</a>]<br />John Coulthart has writen about Sätty on his great blog <a href="http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?s=S%C3%A4tty&x=7&y=8">feuilleton</a> and in <a href="http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/">Strange Attractor Journal</a> Vol. 2, which you can buy <a href="http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/SAJ2_sell.html">here</a>.<br />Sätty @ I Want You magazine [<a href="http://www.iwantyoumagazine.com/satty/">link</a>]<br />posters of/by Sätty @ Wolfgangs Vault [<a href="http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ar/wilfred-satty/9604.html">link</a>]<br />album covers by Sätty <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5UxAkovhJN3MVLPOyGpF3OZQKWiezOvcRLpce0PA6zF4CQcuqBr6I8cerQNJ_0PePuKHv5mp_TRaA5hzInBDwicGsXOxKowICDxkw60z6SVn-5XB7vk4Hqg_apFNpzO8l8wPd3W4pL94/s1600/folder.jpg">1</a>, <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kxsmk3RQUjU/ReZT0FEMc_I/AAAAAAAAACI/td26TOpiStw/s1600/front_cover.jpg">2</a>, <a href="http://goingdigitalmusic.com/images/album%20covers/duke,%20george%20-%20feel%20%28resized%29gdmac.jpg">3</a>, <a href="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/LordBlak/duke_george_1975.jpg">4</a><br />more Sätty at the excellent blog The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus [<a href="http://dolorosa-reveries.blogspot.com/search/label/Wilfried%20Satty">link</a>]<br />Prayer and Ode for Satty by Alan Cohen [<a href="http://www.zpub.com/satty/satty-ac.html">link</a>]<br />Sätty is Dead essay by Michael Bowen [<a href="http://www.zpub.com/satty/satty-dead.html">link</a>]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Visions of Frisco</span> @<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213846089&referer=brief_results">worldcat</a> @<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Visions-Frisco-Imaginative-Depiction-Francisco/dp/1587901404/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251777501&sr=8-1">amazon</a>; <span style="font-style: italic;">The Cosmic Bicycle</span> @<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156224&referer=brief_results">worldcat</a>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Time Zone</span> @<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/762716&referer=brief_results">worldcat</a>; <span style="font-style: italic;">The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe</span> @<a href="http://www.blogger.com/The%20illustrated%20Edgar%20Allan%20Poe">worldcat</a> @<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Edgar-Allan-Poe/dp/B001UQQKK2/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251777600&sr=8-9">amazon</a>; <span style="font-style: italic;">The Annotated Dracula</span> @<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317395969&referer=brief_results">worldcat</a>, @<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Dracula-Bram-Stoker/dp/034525130X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251777545&sr=8-4">amazon</a>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-30293277904236636222009-09-01T11:12:00.000-07:002009-09-01T11:14:58.357-07:00George Cooke CaricaturesGeorge Cooke was a caricatures artist who drew Edwardian music hall performers for the Grand Theatre of Varieties, in Hanley Worcestershire. He compiled them in a series of albums.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/3862779577_4426c90211.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/3862779577_4426c90211.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">This is the frontispiece for the first of several albums of caricatures of music hall performers by George Cooke. The Dame figure in a roundel is probably a caricature of Cooke himself. The performers below represent the comedian Edwin Boyde, right, and the mimic Leo Tell, left. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/result.html?_IXFIRST_=89&_IXSS_=_IXFIRST_%3d1%26_IXINITSR_%3dy%26%2524%253dIXID%3d%26_IXACTION_%3dquery%26%2524%253dIXOBJECT%3d%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d15%26%252asform%3dvanda%26%2524%253dIXNAME%3d%26_IXSESSION_%3d54MQlIecuwk%26%2524%253dIXPLACE%3d%26_IXadv_%3d0%26search%3dsearch%26%2524%253dIXMATERIAL%3d%26%2524%253ds%3dgeorge%2bcooke%26%2524%253dop%3dAND%26_IXFPFX_%3dtemplates%252ft%26%2524%253dsi%3dtext%26%2524%253dIXFROM%3d%26%2524%253dIXTO%3d%26%2524%253ddelflag%3dy&_IXACTION_=query&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSR_=rlQG4mtk4Ss&_IXSPFX_=templates%2ft&_IXFPFX_=templates%2ft">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3512/3863560140_789d7debef.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3512/3863560140_789d7debef.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Carl Hertz, or Leib Morgenstern, when he was performing at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 9 January 1905. He was billed as ‘The Famous Carl Hertz. In his gigantic show of Marvellous Illusions and Surprises. The most elaborate and sensational conjuring show ever presented. Assisted by Mlle. Dalton’. His acts at Hanley included making a birdcage and canary disappear and discovering the canary in the pocket of an audience member. He also performed there the ‘mystifying movements of a clock dial, which stops at any time spectators may desire, and records the numbers of a throw of a dice before the dice have actually been used’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O84900">link</a>]<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2473/3863560600_429d751a11.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2473/3863560600_429d751a11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Juno Salmo, ‘The Golden Mephisto’, when he was performing at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley. This was either during the week of 2 January 1905 or 16 April 1906. The contortionist Juno Salmo was known as the <i>homme grenouille</i> or ‘frog-man’ when he performed in Paris with the Nouveau Cirque in a frog costume. He dislocated his shoulders, hopped around the aquatic part of the ring and did acrobatic contortions on a trapeze that appeared to be made of bamboo. He is seen here doing a similar act, but balancing on a pole dressed as a yellow devil. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/result.html?_IXFIRST_=23&_IXSS_=_IXFIRST_%3d1%26_IXINITSR_%3dy%26%2524%253dIXID%3d%26_IXACTION_%3dquery%26%2524%253dIXOBJECT%3d%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d15%26%252asform%3dvanda%26%2524%253dIXNAME%3d%26_IXSESSION_%3d54MQlIecuwk%26%2524%253dIXPLACE%3d%26_IXadv_%3d0%26search%3dsearch%26%2524%253dIXMATERIAL%3d%26%2524%253ds%3dgeorge%2bcooke%26%2524%253dop%3dAND%26_IXFPFX_%3dtemplates%252ft%26%2524%253dsi%3dtext%26%2524%253dIXFROM%3d%26%2524%253dIXTO%3d%26%2524%253ddelflag%3dy&_IXACTION_=query&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSR_=KAr_7KhVTQl&_IXSPFX_=templates%2ft&_IXFPFX_=templates%2ft">link</a>]<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3862779215_a8e44212da.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3862779215_a8e44212da.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Comedian Edwin Boyde performing the sketch ‘Bread and Jam’ at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 12 December 1904. He was billed enthusiastically as ‘London’s Greatest Comedian’. From all the principal London music halls’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O86426">link</a>]<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/3863561190_0929a88264_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/3863561190_0929a88264_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">The Three Meers when they were performing at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 17 October 1904. They were billed as ‘An Eccentric Wire Act. Fifteen Minutes of Continuous Laughter’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O86368">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/3878694642_47ce9afb35_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/3878694642_47ce9afb35_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Woody Kelly as a whiskered tramp character. He was performing at the Grand Theatre, Hanley, during the week of 10 June 1907. The act was billed as ‘Kelly and Gilette in the sketch “Fun in a Billiard Room”’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O87081">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2442/3878694792_bc5d6a9737_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2442/3878694792_bc5d6a9737_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Dr Carl Hermann when he was topping the bill at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 26 February 1906. He was billed as ‘The Man who Tamed Electricity! The Human Resistance Coil! The Modern Miracle Worker! Hypnotist! Electrician! Scientist! Performs the Feat of Passing over 10,000 Volts of Electricity Through his Body! The Sensation of the Century! Doctor Amazed! Scientists Puzzled!’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O86795">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3449/3862779345_5a27fff06f.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3449/3862779345_5a27fff06f.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Comedian Will Manning of Manning’s Entertainers. He was performing at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 19 December 1904. The company had appeared there the previous March, and now they were billed as ‘The Welcome Return of Manning’s Entertainers in the Convulsing Carnival of Uproarious Mishaps’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O86432">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2448/3862779443_1af2a36a50.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2448/3862779443_1af2a36a50.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Comedian George Gilbey when he was performing at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 26 December 1904. He was billed as ‘Mr George Gilbey. From the Principal London Variety Theatres’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O86455">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3863561046_fd4d3240e2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3863561046_fd4d3240e2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Caricature of the contortionist George Antill, who performed at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 15 August 1904. He was billed as ‘Comedian. The Evening Shadow’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O86300">link</a>]</span></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2556/3863560842_3e1a4ede63.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2556/3863560842_3e1a4ede63.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Morris & Morris when they were performing at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 1 August 1904. They were billed as ‘a pair of real good comedians’. When they appeared previously at the Grand in September 1903, the review noted that, ‘Their fun in the trapeze is equal to anything that has been seen here’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O86291">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/3862778897_0a93f9f507.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/3862778897_0a93f9f507.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Comic duo Burns & Evans performing spoof acrobatics at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 8 August 1904. They were billed as ‘American comedians, as Alfonso and Gasten in "Funnambulism" [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O86297">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/3862778337_40a74ebb17.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/3862778337_40a74ebb17.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Caricature of the American performer Wieland when he was topping the bill at the Hippodrome, Stoke-on-Trent, during the week of 24 July 1905. He was billed as ‘The Great Wieland. America’s Foremost Comedy Juggler’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/result.html?_IXFIRST_=17&_IXSS_=_IXFIRST_%3d1%26_IXINITSR_%3dy%26%2524%253dIXID%3d%26_IXACTION_%3dquery%26%2524%253dIXOBJECT%3d%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d15%26%252asform%3dvanda%26%2524%253dIXNAME%3d%26_IXSESSION_%3d54MQlIecuwk%26%2524%253dIXPLACE%3d%26_IXadv_%3d0%26search%3dsearch%26%2524%253dIXMATERIAL%3d%26%2524%253ds%3dgeorge%2bcooke%26%2524%253dop%3dAND%26_IXFPFX_%3dtemplates%252ft%26%2524%253dsi%3dtext%26%2524%253dIXFROM%3d%26%2524%253dIXTO%3d%26%2524%253ddelflag%3dy&_IXACTION_=query&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSR_=KAr_7KhVTQl&_IXSPFX_=templates%2ft&_IXFPFX_=templates%2ft">link</a>]</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2454/3862778039_60a8cb64ef.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2454/3862778039_60a8cb64ef.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sam Mayo, ‘The Immobile One’, when he was performing at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 29 May 1905. He was billed as ‘the Original Immobile Comedian’. [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/result.html?_IXFIRST_=12&_IXSS_=_IXFIRST_%3d1%26_IXINITSR_%3dy%26%2524%253dIXID%3d%26_IXACTION_%3dquery%26%2524%253dIXOBJECT%3d%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d15%26%252asform%3dvanda%26%2524%253dIXNAME%3d%26_IXSESSION_%3d54MQlIecuwk%26%2524%253dIXPLACE%3d%26_IXadv_%3d0%26search%3dsearch%26%2524%253dIXMATERIAL%3d%26%2524%253ds%3dgeorge%2bcooke%26%2524%253dop%3dAND%26_IXFPFX_%3dtemplates%252ft%26%2524%253dsi%3dtext%26%2524%253dIXFROM%3d%26%2524%253dIXTO%3d%26%2524%253ddelflag%3dy&_IXACTION_=query&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSR_=KAr_7KhVTQl&_IXSPFX_=templates%2ft&_IXFPFX_=templates%2ft">link</a>]</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">And here is a 1922 song </span><span style="font-size:85%;">that I very much enjoy by Sam Mayo, called <a href="http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/90890_pd9ft/c6%20-%20sam%20mayo%20-%20things%20are%20worse%20in%20russia.mp3">Things Are Worse In Russia</a></span><br /><br />-<br />all of these come from the Victoria and Albert Museum [<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/result.html?_IXFIRST_=1&_IXSS_=_IXFIRST_%3d1%26_IXINITSR_%3dy%26%2524%253dIXID%3d%26_IXACTION_%3dquery%26%2524%253dIXOBJECT%3d%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d15%26%252asform%3dvanda%26%2524%253dIXNAME%3d%26_IXSESSION_%3d54MQlIecuwk%26%2524%253dIXPLACE%3d%26_IXadv_%3d0%26search%3dsearch%26%2524%253dIXMATERIAL%3d%26%2524%253ds%3dgeorge%2bcooke%26%2524%253dop%3dAND%26_IXFPFX_%3dtemplates%252ft%26%2524%253dsi%3dtext%26%2524%253dIXFROM%3d%26%2524%253dIXTO%3d%26%2524%253ddelflag%3dy&_IXACTION_=query&_IXMAXHITS_=15&_IXSR_=4Z57hj9e6fg&_IXSPFX_=templates%2fb&_IXFPFX_=templates%2fb">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-34470854155664143222009-08-21T16:15:00.000-07:002009-08-21T16:33:11.223-07:00Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War"By the early twentieth century, convergent Russian and Japanese imperial ambitions in the Far East reached the boiling point over Manchuria. In February 1904 Japan attacked and sank much of the Russian Pacific Fleet anchored off Port Arthur. Weakened by successive and humiliating defeats that helped spawn the 1905 revolution, the Russians accepted U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s offer of mediation, as did the exhausted Japanese. Representatives of the two sides met in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in September 1905, where they signed the Treaty of Portsmouth. Under the terms of the agreement, Russia was forced to give up many of its earlier gains in Manchuria and the Far East." -<a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfpercep/gal_War.html">Library of Congress</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006761_1b3be4f194_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006761_1b3be4f194_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Side View of Temple Building with Red Sky Background<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006741_9f3f6dd0f2_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006741_9f3f6dd0f2_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Balloon with Japanese Flag in the Sky<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006762_6c8a916891_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006762_6c8a916891_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Sinking Russian Naval Boat<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006757_64b0ce4a0c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006757_64b0ce4a0c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Red Explosion Motif and Silver Lines<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006758_0393df07ea_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006758_0393df07ea_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Rising Sun, Cherry Blossoms, and Eagle<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006745_29a4b3b9e2_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006745_29a4b3b9e2_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Danger Off Port Arthur<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006913_4879185ddf_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006913_4879185ddf_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Fall of the Variag<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8007000_c8dca80ae6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8007000_c8dca80ae6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Letter from the Front<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006753_c494e07f47.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006753_c494e07f47.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Nurse and Soldiers<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006755_149c576545_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006755_149c576545_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Nurse Looking Over a Wounded Soldier<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006760_a1613a9e1c_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006760_a1613a9e1c_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />School Girls' Banzai<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006749_54dc5849b6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006749_54dc5849b6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />News Runners Rushing in with the Latest<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006752_939d18dee3_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006752_939d18dee3_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Newspaper Man Rushing in the Latest<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006747_6b5dfd828d_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006747_6b5dfd828d_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Newboys in Fight<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006750_a2e7b95a13_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006750_a2e7b95a13_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Newsboy Selling Extras<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006744_9b4bfeef44_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006744_9b4bfeef44_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Crowds Gathering to Read the News (by Hashimoto Kunisuke)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006742_5ac90b1a8f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006742_5ac90b1a8f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Children Holding Japanese and Russian Flags<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006759_10d7eb314c.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/8006759_10d7eb314c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Sailor<br /><br />-<br />"The Russo-Japanese War coincided with the emergence of picture postcards as a global phenomenon. Photographers, artists, illustrators, flat-out propagandists—all suddenly possessed, in these engaging little mass-produced graphics, a new vehicle for reaching a huge popular audience.<br /><br />International postal conventions made it possible to circulate these images globally. Collecting postcards became a modest way to become cosmopolitan without much expense, and the war between Japan and Russia provided the first dramatic international spectacle for postcard manufacturers to focus on in common. Admiral Tōgō’s surprise attack triggered a postcard boom—not just in Japan but around the world.<br /><br />This new mode of expression attracted many of the nation’s talented artists, including some who were or would become well known. The postcards themselves became ephemeral little works of art as well as little gems of propaganda.<br /><br />This makes Japanese postcards of the Russo-Japanese War interesting in their own right, but this is just the half of it. Because Russia was also producing postcards of the war, and not only Russia but also France, England, Germany, Italy, and the United States, the great “war in the Far East” of 1904-1905 is the first modern war we can revisit, in a compact and manageable way, from a truly multi-national perspective.<br /><br />We can literally “see,” through thousands of fixed-format images (postcards have remained the same size to the present day), what people throughout the world were being offered as a mirror to the war and all that it portended." -John W. Dower, MIT's Visualizing Cultures [<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/asia_rising/ar_essay01.html">link</a>]<br /><br />-<br />all of these come from MIT's beautiful Visualizing Cultures collections [<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/asia_rising/index.html">link</a>]<br />also see the accompanying collection <span style="font-style: italic;">Yellow Promise / Yellow Peril</span>, a collection of foreign postcards from the war [<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/yellow_promise_yellow_peril/index.html">link</a>]<br />another related collection of woodblock prints from the war [<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_03/index.html">link</a>]<br />an essay by John W. Dower about the war and these postcards (with more postcards) [<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/asia_rising/ar_essay01.html">link</a>]<br />for more information and resources on the war visit the impressive Russo-Japanese War Research Society website [<a href="http://www.russojapanesewar.com/index.html">link</a>]<br />LOC's Russian-Japanese Relations in the Far East [<a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfpercep/rj_mod.html">link</a>]<br />Strange Maps Russo-Japanese War Cartoons post [<a href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/220-russo-japanese-war-cartoons/">link</a>]<br />About Postcards post Russo-Japanese War Military Propaganda Postcard [<a href="http://aboutcards.blogspot.com/2007/08/russo-japanese-war-military-propaganda.html">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-26336285612467992012009-08-19T15:42:00.000-07:002009-08-19T15:42:42.711-07:00Theatre Magazine<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/15/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/15/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Founded in 1900 as a pictorial quarterly called <span style="font-style: italic;">Our Players</span>, it changed its name to <span style="font-style: italic;">The Theatre</span> in May of 1901 when it became a monthly edited by Arthur Hornblow. Subsequently it was known as <span style="font-style: italic;">Theatre Magazine</span> or simply <span style="font-style: italic;">Theatre</span>. It became the finest of popular monthlies devoted to the theatre, as opposed to the more intellectual <span style="font-style: italic;">Theatre Arts</span>, and survived for exactly thirty years, closing after its April 1931 issue. -<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/theatre-magazine">Answers.com</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2473/3837422923_4ae36ca99a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2473/3837422923_4ae36ca99a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />November 1906<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/13/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 667px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/13/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />August 1921<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/0/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/0/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />October 1921<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/3838314584_6203e91c4b_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/3838314584_6203e91c4b_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />January 1922<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/1/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/1/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />January 1924<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/14/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/14/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Febuary 1924<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/12/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 656px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/12/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />April 1924<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2444/3837449155_dbe9fccb0a_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2444/3837449155_dbe9fccb0a_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />July 1927<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/3/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/3/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />March 1929<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/4/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/4/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />April 1930<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/5/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/5/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />June 1930<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/6/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/6/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />October 1930<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/11/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/11/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/16/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/16/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/8/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 364px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/gT9CNO0RWQEx-WmS2n6POK3N/thumbnails/1024/8/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-<br />most of these covers come from magazineart.org [<a href="http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/musicandtheater/theatre/">link</a>]<br />you can view more at finsbry's fabulous flickr page [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/picture-perfect-designs-jewelry/sets/72157616899611832/">link</a>]<br />several more are at the always great Art Deco [<a href="http://artdecoblog.blogspot.com/search?q=theatre+magazine">link</a>]<br />more at Gallery Direct Art [<a href="http://search.store.yahoo.net/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=gallerydirectart&query=theatre+magazine&x=0&y=0&.autodone=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gallerydirectart.com%2F45-t26.html%3Futm_source%3DFroogle%26utm_medium%3DShopping%252BPortal%26utm_term%3D45-t26%26utm_campaign%3DShopping%252BPortal">link</a>]<br />thirty or so editions can be read at the Internet Achieve [<a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=theatre%20magazine">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-48871600595525310872009-08-17T20:08:00.000-07:002009-08-17T20:09:22.352-07:00Programs of Boar's Head Dramatic Society<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/13/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/13/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span class="head">"The Boar's Head Dramatic Society of Syracuse University was initiated by a small group of students in the spring of 1903. This group recognized the need for an on-campus organization that was solely committed to all aspects of dramatic production. Their plans did not get underway, however, until 1904 when -- still affiliated with the English Club -- they presented "King Lear" in Syracuse, Rochester and Auburn, under the direction of Professor Frederick D. Losey.<br /><br />On February 9th, 1906, "Boar's Head" was adopted as the official name of the newly founded organization. This name was chosen in honor of the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, London, 'favorite resort of Falstaff, Prince Hal and their companions' in Shakespeare's Henry IV.<br /><br />Boar's Head eventually faded out in the late 1960's, but produced over 200 plays in its sixty year run. Dramatic activities continue at Syracuse University, but no longer under the auspices of Boar's Head.</span>" -<span class="head">Syracuse University archives</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/14/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/14/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/18/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; height: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/18/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/17/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; height: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/17/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/10/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/10/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Great Gatsby - April 3 1928<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/20/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/20/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Time Out - May 11 1931<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/7/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/7/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Life Goes to College - February 14-18 1939<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/5/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/5/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Long Live Love - April 6 1949<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/0/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/0/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Bourgeois Gentleman - March 14 1950<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/16/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/16/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Red Rose and the Briar - April 11-18 1951<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/23/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/23/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Some Faint Star - April 2-5 1952<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/3/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/3/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Gigi - April 26-30 1954<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/11/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/11/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Same old faces - November, December 1955<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/4/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/4/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Lysistrata - May 12-15 1954<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/9/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/9/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Othello - February, March 1960<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/24/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 550px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/24/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Rashomon - March 17-19 1966<br /><br />-<br />& a few of my favorite ads from the programs...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/2/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/2/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/22/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/22/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/21/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/21/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/6/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/6/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/12/photo.jpg?v=1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://mediascache.koffeephoto.com/fmeT_Wn1iFHVMJTwQMSAvzZV/thumbnails/1024/12/photo.jpg?v=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-<br />all of these come from <span class="head">Syracuse University's digital archives [<a href="http://archives.syr.edu/collections/boars_head/">link</a>]<br /></span>joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-70710912161133228392009-08-09T15:16:00.000-07:002009-08-26T11:09:59.944-07:00Film Poster Paintings from GhanaIn the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.<br /><br />In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired - often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies. When the posters were finished they were rolled up and taken on the road (note the heavy damages). The “mobile cinema” began to decline in the mid-nineties due to greater availability of television and video; as a result the painted film posters were substituted for less interesting/artistic posters produced on photocopied paper.<br /><br />The artistic freedom that these artists were given allowed for the creation of some very interesting and sometimes bizarre posters that, as screenwriter Walter Hill wrote, were quite often “more interesting than the films.”<br /><br />Most of these posters come from the book <span style="font-style: italic;">Extreme Canvas: Movie Poster Paintings from Ghana</span> that Will from <a href="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/">A Journey Around My Skull</a> linked me to. The rest were found online at the below links.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3804595157_f765919c4e_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3804595157_f765919c4e_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085382/">Cujo</a> (Lewis Teague, 1983)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2503/3805417910_22029499de_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2503/3805417910_22029499de_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0103064%2F&ei=P3qVSo3EE5TyMdX5zfoH&usg=AFQjCNHoK_a8KNHsawWZWBE0xaRh9qOw5g&sig2=wNOSOTWMN4aR0ChJ2DskUw">The Terminator</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0103064%2F&ei=P3qVSo3EE5TyMdX5zfoH&usg=AFQjCNHoK_a8KNHsawWZWBE0xaRh9qOw5g&sig2=wNOSOTWMN4aR0ChJ2DskUw"> 2</a> (James Cameron, 1991)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2624/3804605451_3a45ced8f5_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2624/3804605451_3a45ced8f5_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092848/">Deadly Prey</a> (David A. Prior, 1987)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/3804614795_a03cc796e8_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/3804614795_a03cc796e8_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/">Evil Dead II</a> (Sam Raimi, 1987)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482/3805442368_0c02e0a8e7_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482/3805442368_0c02e0a8e7_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104083/">Demonic Toys</a> (Peter Manoogian, 1992)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/3804623587_387b61716e_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/3804623587_387b61716e_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091778/">Poltergeist II: The Other Side</a> (Brian Gibson, 1986)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2617/3804619143_376c0e8f2e_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2617/3804619143_376c0e8f2e_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074455/">Eaten Alive</a> (Tobe Hooper, 1977)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2440/3805426772_331aacc089_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2440/3805426772_331aacc089_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076752/">The Spy Who Loved Me</a> (Lewis Gilbert, 1977)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/3804613767_bde4415050_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/3804613767_bde4415050_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105428/">Sleepwalkers</a> (Mick Garris, 1992)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/3805413962_1e00fdfaab_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/3805413962_1e00fdfaab_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099800/">House Party</a> (Reginald Hudlin, 1990)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2577/3804625995_160e6e7a4f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2577/3804625995_160e6e7a4f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104119/">Dolly Dearest</a> (Maria Lease, 1991)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/3804590793_69b5d1d75c_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/3804590793_69b5d1d75c_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109415/">Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest</a> (James D.R. Hickox, 1995)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/3804586223_a1bd6c4f28_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/3804586223_a1bd6c4f28_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880989/">The Stolen Bible 2</a> (Emeka Nwabueze, 2004)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2482/3804587289_a35955836b_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 600px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2482/3804587289_a35955836b_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="kop2">Monster Evil Protact [?]</span><br /><br />-<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Extreme Canvas: Movie Poster Paintings from Ghan</span>a by Ernie Wolfe, Ernie Wolfe III, John Yau, Roy Sieber - worldcat [<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46897015&referer=brief_results">link</a>] amazon [<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Canvas-Movie-Poster-Paintings/dp/096642722X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249848894&sr=8-1">link</a>]<br />GhanaMoviePosters.com [<a href="http://www.ghanamovieposters.com/servlet/StoreFront">link</a>]<br />Killers of Canvas @ the Dutch Poster Museum [<a href="http://www.affichemuseum.nl/nl/435207beabe90">link</a>]<br />online exhibition at Rene Wanner's Poster Page [<a href="http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex136gha/ex136gha.htm">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4394091134843173911.post-20798853008681802802009-08-06T08:48:00.000-07:002009-08-06T09:52:45.009-07:00The Cornell WidowThe Cornell Widow was a humorous student-ran magazine at Cornell University. It was first published on October 4, 1894 and continued until financial problems shut it down in 1962. The magazine's name comes from the term "college widow" who was "the girl who bowled over class after class of freshmen without really landing one." Although much of the humor is dated (and sometimes offensive), it offers a very interesting view into the times and events during which it was published. The Widow's artwork was very often remarkable, but unfortunately many of the best designed issues are still very difficult to find.<br />I dug several of these covers from various places online [see below] and the rest are scans from the misleadingly titled book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cornell-Widow-Hundredth-Anniversary-1894-1994/dp/0960587004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249415924&sr=8-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Cornell Widow Hundredth Anniversary Anthology: 1894-1994</span></a> (as said above The Widow ended in 1962 and this anthology was actually published in 1981 - the title was a humorous response to the 100 year anthology of The Widow's rival <span style="font-style: italic;">The Cornell Daily Sun</span>).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2550/3790275480_b605ccf778_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2550/3790275480_b605ccf778_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />April 1916<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3461/3789462185_cdda752dd6_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3461/3789462185_cdda752dd6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />November 6, 1922<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/3790275126_91594c688f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/3790275126_91594c688f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />January 22, 1923<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/3790274594_5bc41a1988_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/3790274594_5bc41a1988_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />February 1923<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2421/3789462247_3967bda387_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2421/3789462247_3967bda387_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Easter - March 31, 1923<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/3789461729_b8799919f2_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/3789461729_b8799919f2_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />December 1923<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2656/3795794576_c4b98a183c_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2656/3795794576_c4b98a183c_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />November 1925 by Waleter S Beecher<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/3790274966_ff33f94c34_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2580/3790274966_ff33f94c34_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />February 1926<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2628/3790274486_6d83bcff9b_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2628/3790274486_6d83bcff9b_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />March 26, 1926<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2536/3789461875_c0169e5819_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2536/3789461875_c0169e5819_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Christmas 1927<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2440/3790274890_a364357dde_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2440/3790274890_a364357dde_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />May 24, 1928<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2441/3789462971_ff77851862_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2441/3789462971_ff77851862_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />May 1942 by Walter McQuade<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2559/3794978325_f36e4dc5d9_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2559/3794978325_f36e4dc5d9_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />March 1952 by Walt Kelly<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3446/3789464807_59982c8580_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3446/3789464807_59982c8580_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />March 1949 by Richard Koppe<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482/3790276692_49a01c424a_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482/3790276692_49a01c424a_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />by Charles C. Porter<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2600/3789465789_194b6dbb1c_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2600/3789465789_194b6dbb1c_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />1906-1908<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/3790278318_57a5669d91_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/3790278318_57a5669d91_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />1927-1928<br /><br />& a few from the inside:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2432/3789474447_c73c46dbca_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2432/3789474447_c73c46dbca_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/3789464881_361af2186f_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/3789464881_361af2186f_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3589/3789465209_b462430b93_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3589/3789465209_b462430b93_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3789464933_32440c7dd8_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3789464933_32440c7dd8_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />-<br />several covers (though surprisingly not more) can be viewed online at Cornell University's Rare Book and Manuscript Collections [<a href="http://rmc-images.library.cornell.edu/">link</a>]<br />the anthology and several issues at amazon [<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords=cornell%20widow&sourceid=Mozilla-search">link</a>]<br />a bound collection of 1922-1923 issues (with pictures) on ebay [<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1922-23-WIDOW-Cornell-University-Humor-Magazine-Illus_W0QQitemZ220372549936QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAntiquarian_Collectible?hash=item334f3a4130&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116">link</a>]<br />several issues for sale (with pictures) at Ruby Lane [<a href="http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/golden-flower/ilist?ss=cornell+widow&sb=Search&samedb=1&sb=1">link</a>]joel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07778296146683285398noreply@blogger.com1