Paul Gustave Doré - Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866
Sunday, September 30, 2007
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
From The Mouths Of Graves
Paul Gustave Doré - 'Farinata degli Uberti addresses Dante', The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, Canto X), 1857
Friday, September 14, 2007
A Children's Apocalypse
Jake and Dinos Chapman - Zygotic Acceleration, 1995
'The meaning of 'taboo', as we see it, diverges in two contrary directions. To use it means on the one hand, 'sacred', 'consecrated', and on the other 'uncanny', 'dangerous', 'forbidden', 'unclean'.
From Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud.
'The meaning of 'taboo', as we see it, diverges in two contrary directions. To use it means on the one hand, 'sacred', 'consecrated', and on the other 'uncanny', 'dangerous', 'forbidden', 'unclean'.
From Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Room To Move
Rachel Whiteread's plaster cast of the interior space of a room was first shown in 1990.
Rachel Whiteread - Ghost, 1990
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Dirty Deeds! Re-done Dirt Cheap!
Chapmans' Dead Guys ("The Little Artists)
Jake and Dinos Chapman - Great Deeds Against the Dead, 1994
Francisco Goya - Great Deeds! Against the Dead!, 1810s
Monday, September 10, 2007
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Museum
'Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 (see below), was first shown in the Saatchi Gallery and later nominated for the Turner Prize. The work features a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde.
It was sold for nearly £7million in January 2005.'
Image courtesy of the Walker Art Gallery ("The Little Artists").
It was sold for nearly £7million in January 2005.'
Image courtesy of the Walker Art Gallery ("The Little Artists").
Damien Hirst - The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991
Sunday, September 09, 2007
The Man Who Measured The World
William Blake - Isaac Newton, 1795
'Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.'
'Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.'
Isaac Newton
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Friday, September 07, 2007
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Five
Jean-Baptiste Regnault - Cupid and Psyche (1828)
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Three
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre - The Abduction of Europa, 1750
Monday, September 03, 2007
Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part Two
Jacopo Amigoni - Venus Disarming Cupid, 1730s or 1740s
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Marzipan Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?: Part One
Caesar van Boetius - The Abduction of Europa, 1650
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Boucher, Mon Cher: Part Seven
François Boucher - Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (1756)
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