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Animal Fury (Masters of Faits Divers – Painting III)
“Le Petit Journal” was the origin and the leading example of the faits divers press. “Somewhat analogous to a surrealist writing game, fait-divers reportage was an impersonal form of literary production that owed everything to the coincidental arrangement of its sentence elements.” (Robin Walz, Pulp Surrealism) The cover illustrators of” Le Petit Journal” created congenial […]
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spiegeln (mirroring) – Pictorial Improvisations on Heine´s Winter´s Tale (Cycle of aquatint etchings)
In her extensive cycle of graphics, which she began with in 2011, Manuela A. Beck references in a free associative manner motifs drawn from Heinrich Heine´s complex philosophical-political verse-epic. The technique of etching is not employed for reproductive purposes here, but as the original medium of pictorial composition.The artist succeeds in creating pictographic-abstract formulations that […]
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Funeral ceremony for Georg Valsamakis in Athens , Athens, Greece (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
In this episode of her “Enzyklopädie Personae”- project Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi attends the obsequies for the late George Valsamakis in Athens. He was a wholesaler of electrical appliance.
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Accidents will happen (Masters of Faits Divers – Painting II)
The list of outstanding illustrators who worked for the weekly supplement of the tabloid “Le Petit Journal”is impressive: Jose Belon, Charles Bombled, Henri Brispot, Eugene Damblans, Frederic Lix, Fortune Louis Meaulle, Henri Meyer, Lionel Royer, Osvaldo Tofani and Charles Gaston Yrondy. Most of them were trained history painters with a specific talent for catching the […]
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der stein nr. 1
In the late 1990s Canadian cartoonist Julie Doucet abandoned the medium of comic books and went back to printing. Woodcuts, linocuts, silkscreen printing, followed by an abundant production of artist’s books. “Der Stein” is one of the most incisive and enduring examples of contemporary private press or fanzine culture. It is written in bad German […]
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Robert Weaver VII: The Woolworth – Motion
What´s Come Over Old Woolworth? (Fortune, January 1969) “There are assignments for `Fortune´, where I am realistically and symbolically going up the corporate ladder at Woolworth´s. It starts with the stockboy, and I use chairs as a metaphor for power. The chairs become more and more elaborate as we go to top. The drawings where […]
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Werner Pflaum and Peter Schlosser, Bad Gastein , Bad Gastein, Austria (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
In this adventurous episode of her “Enzyklopädie Personae”- project Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi accompanies two Austrian hunters on their nightshift in a deerstand.
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Journal de L’expédition des Portes De Fer (1839 – 44)
The well-known writer and literary critic Charles Nodier, who was a close friend of the Duc d´Orleans, who had died shortly beforehand, was responsible for the text. The illustration work featured three of the most prominent exponents of artistic Orientalism, the two painters Adrien Dauzats and Gabriele Descamps and draughtsman Auguste Raffet. But the work […]
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Cartoons Social and Political , London, 1893
“Cynicus” was the penname of the Scottish cartoonist Martin Anderson, who became a successful cartoonist in London in the late 1880s. Critics praised him as the new Rowlandson, but when his hand-coloured “Cartoons Social and Political” appeared in 1893, he was blamed for being “almost brutal” in his directness. Their socialist impulse was promoted by […]
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CS-Report: Morning conference at The Guardian with Alan Rusbridger , London, 2002
Impressions of a morning conference in the editorial office of The Guardian with editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. The British journal shook the foundations of Rupert Murdoch´s News Corporation by uncovering the phone-hacking scandal and was named newspaper of the year at the 2011 Press Awards for its partnership with WikiLeaks.