Althouse: Victorian...

३० मे, २०११

Victorian...

... Surrealism.

२१ टिप्पण्या:

The Crack Emcee म्हणाले...: Very, very cool.; ३०/५/११, ६:५४ PM
edutcher म्हणाले...: Photography was just a-borning and people were finding out how much reality could be stretched.

As Crack said, very cool, and very fascinating.; ३०/५/११, ६:५७ PM
The Dude म्हणाले...: ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.; ३०/५/११, ७:०७ PM
Terry म्हणाले...: The Victorians are too easily stereotyped.
Here is a bit of stream of consciousness poetry from George MacDonald's "At the Back of the North Wind", a book for children. Its subject was death. It was published in 1871.

I know a river whose waters run asleep run run ever singing in the shallows dumb in the hollows sleeping so deep and all the swallows that dip their feathers in the hollows or in the shallows are the merriest swallows of all for the nests they bake with the clay they cake with the water they shake from their wings that rake the water out of the shallows or the hollows will hold together in any weather and so the swallows are the merriest fellows and have the merriest children and are built so narrow like the head of an arrow to cut the air and go just where the nicest water is flowing and the nicest dust is blowing . . .

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/225/225-h/225-h.htm; ३०/५/११, ७:१० PM
deborah म्हणाले...: Me no likey.; ३०/५/११, ७:१० PM
virgil xenophon म्हणाले...: I didn't know Salvador Dali had invented time-travel!; ३०/५/११, ८:१४ PM
virgil xenophon म्हणाले...: Or was in to photography!; ३०/५/११, ८:१५ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Did you watch the Anne Frank film? Amazing and disturbing.

(The one fault of the film is the trendy quick cut technique. Do filmmakers think this has some impact, other than irritation?); ३०/५/११, ८:१६ PM
rcocean म्हणाले...: Sorry, I find it dull. The old if you can't be good, be weird approach.; ३०/५/११, ८:३१ PM
Damon म्हणाले...: A bit freaky. People who think like that scare me.; ३०/५/११, ८:३३ PM
Palladian म्हणाले...: It's not actually Victorian surrealism, like from the Victorian period, it's Victorian-style surrealism.

For me, the real Victorians were weird and scary enough, without horns.; ३०/५/११, ८:३६ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Time to stop drinking Absinthe.; ३०/५/११, ९:०१ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: Stat.. My Palin drip is almost out ;); ३०/५/११, ९:११ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: I'm seeing things on blog..; ३०/५/११, ९:१२ PM
Luther म्हणाले...: Palladian. If you're still here. I want to apologize for coming across as an ass the other night. Though, my question to you was sincere. I've read your response. We'll talk about it another time, perhaps.; ३०/५/११, ९:२९ PM
Luther म्हणाले...: As to the topic. Reminded me of the county fair, 10 cent tickets, see the weird in my head.

No thanks.; ३०/५/११, ९:३३ PM
Bob म्हणाले...: Brings to mind Terry Gilliam's animations for Python.; ३०/५/११, १०:३५ PM
chickelit म्हणाले...: "Protuberant Victorians" by Dora Carrington; ३०/५/११, १०:४१ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: "Reminded me of the county fair, 10 cent tickets, see the weird in my head."

Thank you for sharing this, Luther! I found the pictures oddly familiar, but until you said "county fair", it remained a mystery. They look like the banners above the freak shows that I wanted to sneak into as a kid.

Really liked this guy's work. From what I read about him, he had previously been a tattoo artist. Right now he is working on a new series involving tarot cards.; ३१/५/११, १२:०२ AM
The Crack Emcee म्हणाले...: From what I read about him, he had previously been a tattoo artist. Right now he is working on a new series involving tarot cards.

Sigh.; ३१/५/११, १२:२४ AM
Fred4Pres म्हणाले...: I did think Monty Python;s immediately on looking at it. Now I find out that they did not think up the juxtapositioning.; ३१/५/११, ८:२० AM