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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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Bangs, shakings and floodings (Masters of Faits Divers – Painting V)
Faits divers-coverart was a transformation of history painting into the realm of urban civil culture, with the middle class-reader as sovereign.
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Scenes from the Armenian Massacres of 1896
These first near-genocidal series of atrocities committed against the Armenian population were carried out during the reign of Abdul Hamid II, the last sultan effectively to rule over the Turkish state. The police responded to a demonstration held in Constantinople in September 1895 by Armenian political organizations which sought to pressure the government and the […]
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Conflicts and Flames (Masters of Faits Divers – Painting VI)
The depiction of social conflicts, of strikes, riots and mobs was one of the main subjects of special artists and faits divers-painters at the turn of the century. Some of them became masters of pictorial mass choreography and cataclysmic sceneries.
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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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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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Comics as reports, a selection # 1 (MePri-News 4/9/09 – 25/1/12)
4.9.2009 Josh Neufeld´s Hurricane Katrina Report Josh Neufeld is known as a long-time contributor to Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical “real life” series American Splendor. In his graphic novel A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge he tells the story of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath „from the perspective of real people still dealing with the storm each and […]
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Crashes and Collapses (Masters of Faits Divers – Painting I)
In 1863 a new kind of journalism with particular emphasis on sensational news stories, the so called faits divers, was introduced to the French press landscape by the foundation of the daily “Le Petit Journal”. It´s editor M.P. Millaud had coined the much quoted phrase “dare to be stupid”. In the 1890s this leading French […]
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Jan van der Heyden – Vedutismus und Pyroreport. (Ausstellungsbesprechung)
No translation yet. Die Ausstellung „Jan van der Heyden, painter and inventor“ im Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2. 2. – 30.4. 2007)Möglicherweise hat es eines derart exklamatorischen Obertitels wie „Braand /Fire!“ bedurft und eines nicht minder sensationistischen Vergleichs des Subjekts der Ausstellung mit Leonardo da Vinci, um über die obligatorischen Amsterdam-Pauschaltouristen hinaus noch weitere Besucher in die […]
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On Luis Camnitzer’s etching cycles, especially “Agent Orange “(1983-84)
At the end of the 1960s, the Uruguayan sculptor, graphic artist and art critic Luis Camnitzer (born 1937 in Lübeck), living in exile in America, founded the New York Graphic Workshop together with his colleagues Liliana Porter and José Guillermo Castillo. The aim of this venture was to remove the aura of elitism from artistic […]