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Wild Apollo’s Arrows. An illustrated introduction I
I Classic / Anti-Classic Decades before the French Revolution, a culture of intoxicating affects burst into the heyday of the Enlightenment, increasingly boosted by national-mythical and folkloristic enthusiasm. The cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder compared its impact to the epidemic projectiles that marked the beginning of Homer’s battle epic Iliad. Terms such as the ‘Age […]
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Wild Apollo’s Arrows. An illustrated introduction II
III Blind Visionaries –True Homers Paintings Gallery The dismantling of noble Homer had already begun in the 1730s, in the cultural-anthropological milieu of the Scottish Enlightenment, which was characterised by approaches based on early cognitive science and evolutionary theory. The atavistic portrait bust, which on a self-portrait of the Edinburgh barber and graphical chronicler John […]
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Wild Apollo’s Arrows. An illustrated introduction III
V Companionship of the Afterlife. Departure to the Past Exhibit Gallery The mesmerist influence on the Romantic generation was highlighted ideal-typically by several heads of a book of portraits that Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, a main proponent of the Brotherhood of St Luke, created between 1816 and 1824 in Rome. Their gazes to the afterlife […]
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Adam in Oraibi – Wild Apollo’s Arrows Add. I
CS: New Series. A first visual essay in the wake of the Wild Apollo’s Arrows project. What happened after the Ossianists discovered the descendants of their wild Homer among the North American tribes and Blake identified their shamans as visionary Ezekiels? Lightning strikes a curved thimble in a garden by night.
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The Illuminated Myth of Mzona by Richard of Kédange (1802-1879). Part III
Heavenly Zo / INRI becomes ISO / Swabian and Lorraine Somnambulism Heavenly Zo Richard’s emblematic sexual symbolism originated in the theurgic Neoplatonic geometry of Alexandrian late antiquity and had found its way from there into Jewish mysticism and Hermeticism. The most famous example was the Seal of Solomon, the hexagram, which consisted in the interpenetration […]
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The Illuminated Myth of Mzona by Richard of Kédange (1802-1879). Part II
The Ichts / The Sator Arepo mechanism / Two Evas The Ichts When looking through these magic books, one is quickly confronted with the question of whether there was a system here that was comprehensible and decipherable, at least in parts, or whether it was an entirely idiosyncratic construct, a blooming nonsense, a crazy simulation […]
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The Illuminated Myth of Mzona by Richard of Kédange (1802-1879). Part I
From Alsace to Lorraine / The research / The book In 2010, three graphic grimoires from rural Lorraine popped up at a Strasbourg bookseller’s, whose peculiarity and intensity were astounding. A Richard from Kédange, today Kédange-sur-Canner, a town not far from the border with Saarland and about 30 km north of the capital of Lorraine, […]
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Frühpsychedelisches von Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Taut und Paul Goesch (Ausstellung / Katalog)
Not translated: Im Mittelpunkt dieser phantastischen Ausstellung der Berlinischen Galerie mit dem Titel Visionäre der Moderne, die von Annelie Lütgens kuratiert wurde, stehen Architekturvisionen und Zeichnungen dreier Utopisten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Paul Scheerbart: Ein Zukunftskind, ca. 1912 (Abb. Katalog) Der Schriftsteller, Dichter und Erfinder Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) konnte um 1914 den jungen Architekten Bruno […]
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The Flight to Egypt. Father and son Tiepolo vary a theme.
Not translated: Die Staatsgalerie Stuttgart besitzt ein relativ kleines Bild von Giambattista Tiepolo: „Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten“. Für einen ausgezeichneten Hof- und Freskomaler ist die Größe von nur 55,5 x 41,5 cm tatsächlich ungewöhnlich, zumal es sich hier nicht um einen Bozzetto, einen Fresko-Entwurf handelt, sondern um eins von vier überlieferten Gemälden […]
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The rehabilitation. Gustave Doré in Paris, Strasbourg and in Ottawa.
The profession of illustration and the disrepute it got into are both a product of 19th century industrialized journalism. The business´ high altitude flight as well as it´s crash are manifest in the work of one single person, the Alsatian graphic artist, painter and sculptor Gustave Doré (1832-1883). Along with Gustave Courbet he was the […]