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Showing posts with label vincent van gogh. 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...
24 Sept 2024

Reflections on Stephen Alexander's 'Lascivious' (1985) - A Guest Post by Sally Guaragna

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  Fig. 1: Stephen Alexander: Lascivious   Oil on canvas (c. 1985)      Stephen Alexander's aureate canvas entitled Lascivious depictin...
19 Apr 2024

A Tale of Two Toby Jugs

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Fig. 1: Paul Gauguin: Jug Self-portrait (1889) Fig. 2: Friar Tuck character jug made in England (mid-20thC)   I.    The 19th-century French...
3 Jul 2018

Hollywood Tales: Notes on the Relationship between Kirk Douglas and John Wayne

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John Wayne as Taw Jackson and Kirk Douglas as Lomax in The War Wagon (dir. Burt Kennedy, 1967) I. Commenting on a recent po...
17 Oct 2016

Floraphilia Redux (With Reference to the Case of Rupert Birkin)

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Floraphilia   YouTube (2009)   Flowering plants don't just grow in soil: they are also rooted in our hearts and blossom in ...
3 Mar 2016

Dementia: From Bad to Verse

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People who leave the obscure and try to define  whatever it is that goes on in their heads, are pigs.   Living Words  is a...
19 Feb 2015

Anyone Can Be Van Gogh With an iPhone

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Sunfuckingflower (2015) by Stephen Alexander Bored, I decided to take a picture of the one cheerful thing in the room: a sunflower...
25 Mar 2014

All Hail the New Flesh! (On D. H. Lawrence's Impure Pictures)

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D. H. Lawrence: The Rape of the Sabine Women (1928) D. H. Lawrence's great faith is in the flesh, to which he makes an insist...
25 Jan 2014

On Van Gogh's Ear and the Dangers of Sungazing

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Picture by Phischer: Van Gogh's Ear (2007) www.worth1000.com Although the facts of the case were disputed in 2009 by two...