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Zurück in die Zukunft oder die Entstehung von Science-Fiction aus der Spekulationsblase. Eine Bildergalerie
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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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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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 […]