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Showing posts with label georges bataille. Show all posts
4 Dec 2025

Sacred Lovers: On Colette Peignot and Her Bad Romance With Georges Bataille

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Colette Peignot (aka Laure) and Georges Bataille   No one has ever seemed to me as uncompromising and pure as she,  or more decidedly sovere...
30 Nov 2025

On the Anointed and the Accursed

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Fig. 1: Marko Rupnik: The Anointing at Bethany  (date unknown)  Fig. 2: Marti Blue in Dirty (dir. Annabel Lee and Tessa Hughes-Freeland, 19...
3 Aug 2025

The Big Toe Reconsidered

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Swollen Big Toe: Male Subect: 62 Years Old (2025)  Photo by Stephen Alexander à la Jacques-André Boiffard [1]     "Le gros orteil est l...
20 Dec 2024

Philematology: On Kissing and Cannibalism

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Daniel Silver: Kissing (2024) [1] Statuario Altissimo marble and bronze, with a stainless steel baseplate   I.    It wasn't until I saw...
21 Oct 2024

On My Convoluted Relationship With Walter Benjamin

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 Walter Benjamin and Stephen Alexander illumined by Paul Klee's blessed Angelus Novus (1920)     Readers familiar with this blog will kn...
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7 Sept 2024

My Naked Nakedness is Positive Atrociousness: Notes on The Deadman (1989)

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  Jennifer Montgomery as Marie in The Deadman   (dir. Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, 1989)   "When Edouard fell back dead an emptines...
10 Aug 2024

It is But Death Who Comes at Last

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Keith Haring Untitled (For James Ensor) 1 (1989) Acrylic on canvas (36 x 72 in) The Keith Haring Foundation   Apparently, having penetrated...
31 Mar 2024

Piss Artists 3: Andres Serrano (Piss Christ)

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Andres Serrano: Immersion (Piss Christ) (1987)  Cibachrome print photograph (150 x 100 cm) [1]   I.    For most British people, a piss arti...
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22 Mar 2024

André Masson and the Sex Pistols

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The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...