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Maurice Girodias @90
Maurice Girodias @90 In 1934, at the age of 15, Girodias drew the disturbing crab picture seen on the original cover of Tropic of Cancer. The cover states: “Ne doit pas etre exposé en étalage ou en...
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I was three years old when May 68 happened
burning Citroën DS during May 68 from here. I was three years old when May 68 happened. May 68 was the direct precursor of the hippie movement here in Western Europe. Most of our teachers had been...
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Fashionable Contrasts (1792) by James Gillray is Icon of Erotic Art #44
Fashionable Contrasts (1792) by James Gillray As well as being blatant in his observations, James Gillray could be incredibly subtle, and puncture vanity with a remarkably deft approach. The...
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RIP Christopher Gray (1942 – 2009)
RIP Christopher Gray (1942 – 2009) Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International (1974) – Christopher Gray [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK] Christopher Gray is a British...
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RIP Stanley Chapman (1925 – 2009)
RIP Stanley Chapman (1925 – 2009)[1] via www.tate.org.uk Cover illustration for Subsidia Pataphysica, no.1, 19 December 1965 Stanley Chapman (1925 – 2009) was a British architect, designer, translator...
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International Times online archives
Via « boredom is always counter-revolutionary The full run of the International Times has been archived online[1]. The International Times (it or IT) was an underground paper started in 1966 in the...
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Lydia Lunch @50
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beTsOONfVNk] “Stained Sheets” (1979) Lydia Lunch “Stained Sheets” is World Music Classic #325
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Never mind the bollocks, here’s Rabelais
Never mind the bollocks, here’s Rabelais Friar John and Panurge give the blason and contreblason du couillon by Rabelais As I noted in a previous post[1] on satirical pornography or pornographic...
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Stonewall riots @40
Stonewall riots @40 From the New York Times of June 29, 1969: HUNDREDS OF YOUNG MEN WENT ON A RAMPAGE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, shortly after 3 A.M. yesterday after a force of plain-clothes men raided a...
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RIP Simon Vinkenoog (1928 – 2009)
RIP Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer. [Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg31RB48Rag] Vinkenoog with Spinvis in a totally Fela Kuti-esque track Simon Vinkenoog (1928 – 2009) was a Dutch...
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