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The Art of Louis Sabattier II: 1900 – 1918
Many of Louis Sabattier´s soft focussed photo-paintings for the French magazine L Illustration conveyed a ambiguous cultural – critical content. Especially his popular scenes of colonial tourism could easily be read as a subversive comment on the Eurocentric perspective of the oriental painting tradition of his teachers Jean-Léon Gérôme and Gustave Boulanger. Exoticism and alienness, […]
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Henry James: Image & Text II
Not translated: Das Feature zu Henry James´ gesammelten Essays zur Illustrationskunst, die 1893 unter dem Titel Picture and Text im Verlag Harper & Brothers in New York erschienen sind, gibt ausschnitthaft und in collagierter Form einige Passagen aus der kommentierten deutschen Erstübersetzung wieder, die jetzt im Piet Meyer Verlag erschienen ist. Das Vorwort stammt von […]
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Henry James: Image & Text I
Not translated: Das Feature zu Henry James´ gesammelten Essays zur Illustrationskunst, die 1893 unter dem Titel Picture and Text im Verlag Harper & Brothers in New York erschienen sind, gibt ausschnitthaft und in collagierter Form einige Passagen aus der kommentierten deutschen Erstübersetzung wieder, die jetzt im Piet Meyer Verlag erschienen ist. Das Vorwort stammt von […]
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The Art of Louis Sabattier I: 1897 – 1904
The trained history painter Louis Sabattier was one of the most interesting press illustrators of the late 19th century. None of the numerous accredited special artists managed to catch the tense atmosphere of the spectacular trials against Alfred Dreyfus and Émilé Zola in a comparable subtle way. Many of his soft focussed photo-paintings for the […]
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United States of Plutocracy or The New Wold Order.
Winsor McCay, 1905
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(Update November)
Feature: The creation of Science-Fiction out of the financial bubble / Technische Paradiese aus der Spekulationsblase. Theo Matejko, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, 1928 (MePri-Coll.) Pictorial: Gustave Dore´s works for “Journal pour Rire” (1847-51) – II Gustave Doré: Journal pour Rire, 1847 (MePri-Coll.)
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drawing reportage – now and here (Exhibition)
Now, that photojournalism generates so many discussions about ethics, enforcement of stereotypes, manipulation, drawing reportage is called to rediscover itself. From the point of view of its means, it is capable of yet unexplored analytical depths. Its subjectivity exempts it from being irrevocably. The reader is aware that what is being revealed is an experience, […]
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Back to the future or the creation of Science-Fiction out of the financial bubble. A Pictorial Gallery
The following commented image show was inspired by the exhibition Technische Paradiese. Die Zukunft in der Karikatur des 19. Jahrhunderts of the museum LA8 in Baden-Baden. The pictorial departs from the selection of this exhibition and combines it with other materials, mostly from the archive of the Melton Prior Institute. Bernard Picart, Monument consacré à […]
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Technische Paradiese. Die Zukunft in der Karikatur. (Ausstellung und Katalog)
Das von Mathias Winzen geleitete Museum mit dem an die konkrete Prosa von Staumeldungen erinnernden Namen LA8 in Baden-Baden leistet seit nunmehr sieben Jahren in einer ununterbrochenen Folge spannender Themenausstellungen eine imponierende kulturhistorische Aufarbeitung des lange verdrängten und immer aktueller werdenden 19. Jahrhunderts. Daß diese Institution in ihrer Orientierung an Kunst und Technik nicht nur […]
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Doré´s works for “Journal pour Rire” (1847-51) – II
Thirteen years before his coeval successor Wilhelm Busch began his career at the Munich “Fliegende Blätter”, young Gustave Doré had already established a mature and distinct Comic imagery in Charles Philipon´s groundbreaking “Journal pour Rire”. Doré´s Art of Comic was a livley blend of various influences: The loose improvised “romans en images” of Rodolphe Töpffer […]