Monday, May 30, 2011

A Resumption of a Semi-Regular Edition of a Few, Good, Borrowed Images

(via http://www.blurb.com/books/2065446)

From: Old Time Religion: Faith Healers, Radio Preachers, and Evangelists! Graphics of Revival, the Apocalypse and the Afterlife by Jim Linderman

(via http://therealgaryhill.tumblr.com/post/4707795678/ufo-dusk-to-dawn-michael-mcinnerney-original)

UFO DUSK TO DAWN
Michael McInnerney,
Original psychedelic screen printed poster announcing Arthur Brown and Alexis Korner on July 14, and Tomorrow and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on July 21, 1967 at the UFO Club
20”x30”, First English edition.

(via http://richardmeade.tumblr.com/post/4899392994/well-are-they)
Well, are they?

Well, are they?

(via oscartripe )

Radio Shack 8 track tape deck commercial
Circa 1970s

(via http://lpcoverlover.com/2011/05/29/world-class/)

Jose Marinho “A Volta ao Mundo” Sinter Records

(via http://litterature.tumblr.com/post/5912025034/i12bent-french-writer-louis-ferdinand)

i12bent:

French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894 – 1961), author of Journey to the End of the Night, a celebrated novel. Written in an explosive and highly colloquial style, the book shocked most critics but found immediate success with the French reading public, which responded enthusiastically to the violent misadventures of its petit-bourgeois antihero, Bardamu, and his characteristic nihilism.
Céline’s writings are examples of black comedy, where unfortunate and often terrible things are described humorously. Céline’s writing is often hyper-real and its polemic qualities can often be startling; however, his main strength lies in his ability to discredit almost everything and yet not lose a sense of enraged humanity. Céline was also an influence on Irvine Welsh, Günter Grass and Charles Bukowski. Bukowski has famously said that “Journey to the End of the Night was the best book written in the last two thousand years.”
“Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.” — L.-F. C.

French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (May 27, 1894 – 1961), author of Journey to the End of the Night, a celebrated novel. Written in an explosive and highly colloquial style, the book shocked most critics but found immediate success with the French reading public, which responded enthusiastically to the violent misadventures of its petit-bourgeois antihero, Bardamu, and his characteristic nihilism.
Céline’s writings are examples of black comedy, where unfortunate and often terrible things are described humorously. Céline’s writing is often hyper-real and its polemic qualities can often be startling; however, his main strength lies in his ability to discredit almost everything and yet not lose a sense of enraged humanity. Céline was also an influence on Irvine Welsh, Günter Grass and Charles Bukowski. Bukowski has famously said that “Journey to the End of the Night was the best book written in the last two thousand years.”
“Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.” — L.-F. C.

(via http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/03/meowmorphosis.html)

Paul Landacre, Sultry Day, 1930s

(via http://blog.modernmechanix.com/)

Thanks to donnalethal

(via http://comicallyvintage.tumblr.com/)

(via https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=430786&id=142878472438474)

Test Polaroid from a photo shoot for No Mag. (Bruce Kalberg)
From Violence Girl - The birth of the 1970's punk movement as seen through the eyes of Chicana feminist and punk musician Alice Bag. Published by Feral House, 2011.

(via http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2011/04/24/willem-de-kooning-1904-1997/)

Woman--Willem-de-Kooning-1950-52
Willem de Kooning: 1904-1997
...From 1950 to 1955, he produced his well-known Women series, “integrating the human form with the aggressive paint application, bold colors, and sweeping strokes of Abstract Expressionism. These female “portraits” provoked not only with their vulgar carnality and garish colors, but also because of their embrace of figural representation, a choice deemed regressive by many of de Kooning’s Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, but one to which he consistently returned for many decades”...

(via http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2011/05/awopbopaloobopawopbamboom.html)

Lightnin' Hopkins
Thanks to jspong

(via http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturesface/4416178672/)

Quandong Song

Blue Quandong (Elaeocarpus grandees) Fruits are 15-25mm in diameter and are a well known bush food. They are the BLUE MUSICAL NOTES which litter the forest floor with their vibrant song. Flying foxes, birds, rats and cassowaries all eat them. They are often found in the big birds scats half digested as blue poo. The blue fruit contains a Hard seed which is often used to make jewellery. As you walk through the rainforest and notice yellow /red leaves on the ground these may be from a Quandong tree. The blue fruits will often confirm this. A well known cassowary food, It is interesting to note that cassowaries in captivity who have tasted watermelon and apples reject quandongs on most occasions.

(via http://billboardingparty.tumblr.com/post/4081133751/january-11-1964)

January 11, 1964

(via https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=186514014734533&set=a.110116952374240.10661.100001278081916&type=1&theater)

100 BUCK BIG PAINTINGS, SMALL PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES... THEY'RE NOT GONNA LAST LONG... GET THERE EARLY!!!

REPOST: Claude Cahun (Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob) 1894-1954

Originally posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

At a historic/art photographs blog called kvetchlandia:http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/
I ran across the haunting work of Claude Cahun...

Self-portrait 1912

Self-portrait 1915

Self-portrait 1920

Self-portrait 1925

Self-portrait 1927

Self-portrait 1927

Self-portrait 1927

Self-portrait 1929

Claude Cahun's gravestone in the cemetery of St. Brelade's Church, Jersey

Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
Edited by Louise Downie
Essays by Katharine Conley, Gen Doy, Claire Follain, Tirza True Latimer, Jennifer Shaw, James Stevenson, and Krisine Von Oehsen
Hardcover with jacket
9.75" x 9.75"
240 pages
410 halftones and 30 four-color images
http://www.aperture.org/books/browse-by-photographer/a-c/don-t-kiss-me-the-art-of-claude-cahun-and-marcel-moore.html

Claude Cahun-A Sensual Politics of Photography
Gen Doy
I.B. Tauris, January 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84511-551-7, ISBN10: 1-84511-551-1
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 232 pages, 30 illus.
http://us.macmillan.com/claudecahun

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cahun_claude.html-
ARTCYCLOPEDIA-Claude Cahun Online-Database of material connected with the Claude Cahun Collection. "e.g. newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs of unknown origin which may be family ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun
Claude Cahun
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Claude Cahun (25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality.

Born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob in Nantes, she was the niece of writer Marcel Schwob and the great-niece of Orientalist David Léon Cahun. Her mother's mental problems meant that she was brought up by her maternal grandmother, Mathilde Cahun.

She began making photographic self-portraits as early as 1912, when she was 18 years old, and she continued taking images of herself through the 1930s.

Early life
Around 1919, she settled on the pseudonym Claude Cahun, intentionally selecting a sexually ambiguous name, after having previously used the names Claude Courlis and Daniel Douglas. During the early 20s, she settled in Paris with her life-long partner and stepsister Suzanne Malherbe. For the rest of their lives together, Cahun and Malherbe (who adopted the pseudonym "Marcel Moore") collaborated on various written works, sculptures, photomontages and collages. She published articles and novels, notably in the periodical "Mercure de France", and befriended Henri Michaux, Pierre Morhange and Robert Desnos.

Around 1922 she and Malherbe began holding artists' salons at their home. Among the regulars who would attend were artists Henri Michaux and André Breton and literary entrepreneurs Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier.

Work
Cahun's work encompassed writing, photography, and theater. She is most remembered for her highly-staged self portraits and tableaux that incorporated the visual aesthetics of Surrealism.

Her published writings include "Heroines," (1925) a series of monologues based upon female fairy tale characters and intertwining them with witty comparisons to the contemporary image of women; Aveux non avenus, (Carrefour, 1930) a book of essays and recorded dreams illustrated with photomontages; and several essays in magazines and journals.

In 1932 she joined the Association des Ecrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires, where she met André Breton and René Crevel. Following this, she started associating with the surrealist group, and later participated in a number of surrealist exhibitions, including the London International Surrealist Exhibition (New Burlington Gallery) and Exposition surréaliste d'Objets (Charles Ratton Gallery, Paris), both in 1936. In 1934, she published a short polemic essay, Les Paris sont Ouverts, and in 1935 took part in the founding of the left-wing group Contre Attaque, alongside André Breton and Georges Bataille.
Around 1922 she and Malherbe began holding artists' salons at their home. Among the regulars who would attend were artists Henri Michaux and André Breton and literary entrepreneurs Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier.

World War II activism
In 1937 Cahun and Malherbe settled in Jersey. Following the fall of France and the German occupation of Jersey and the other Channel Islands, they became active as resistance workers and propagandists. Fervently against war, the two worked extensively in producing anti-German fliers. Many were snippets from English-to-German translations of BBC reports on the Nazi's crimes and insolence, which were pasted together to create rhythmic poems and harsh criticism. The couple then dressed up and attended many German military events in Jersey, strategically placing them in soldier's pockets, on their chairs, etc. Also, fliers were inconspicuously crumpled up and thrown into cars and windows. In many ways, Cahun and Malherbe's resistance efforts were not only political but artistic actions, using their creative talents to manipulate and undermine the authority which they despised. In many ways, Cahun's life's work was focused on undermining a certain authority, however her specific resistance fighting targeted a physically dangerous threat. In 1944 they were arrested and sentenced to death, but the sentences were never carried out. However, Cahun's health never recovered from her treatment in jail, and she died in 1954. She is buried in St Brelade's Church with her partner Suzanne Malherbe (who was also known by the pseudonym Marcel Moore).

Social critic and legacy
In many ways, Cahun's life was marked by a sense of role reversal, and her public identity became a commentary upon not only her own, but the public's notions of sexuality, gender, beauty, and logic. Her adoption of a sexually ambiguous name, and her androgynous self-portraits display a revolutionary way of thinking and creating, experimenting with her audience's understanding of photography as a documentation of reality. Her poetry challenged gender roles and attacked the increasingly modern world's social and economic boundaries. Also Cahun's participation in the Parisian Surrealist movement diversified the group's artwork and ushered in new representations. Where most Surrealist artists were men, and their primary images were of women as isolated symbols of eroticism, Cahun epitomized the chameleonic and multiple possibilities of the female identity. Her photographs, writings, and general life as an artistic and political revolutionary continue to influence countless artists, namely Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin.

Cahun's collected writings were published in 2002 as Claude Cahun - Écrits(ISBN 2-85893-616-1), edited by François Leperlier.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

UNCLE DEETOU'S PARLOUR: The Visit...

(via http://uncledeetou.blogspot.com/2011/05/visit.html)

The visit...

Monday, May 23, 2011

THE NERVEBREAKERS : Hijack The Radio! / Why Am I So Flipped? (1979)

NERVEBREAKERS - HIJACK THE RADIO/WHY AM I SO FLIPPED - 7" SINGLE

(Re-issued by Get Hip Records GH-249)

Get Hip Store

Click here to listen to a mp3 sample of "Why Am I So Flipped":

Click here to listen to a mp3 sample of "Hijack The Radio":

(The original released in 1979 on Wild Child Records WC-1003)

Son of a Few, Good, Borrowed Images

When I first started this blog, I didn't hardly know what a blog was. Back in those days before I discovered the wonders and curses of TUMBLR, Posterous and AMPLIFY, I would perodically post collections of interesting images, art, photos and an occasional video that I had recently run across, titling the series some dumb humor, topical variation on A Few, Good, Borrowed Images. Back then, Blogger /Blogspot was alot more labor-intensive to utilize. Throw in my ignorance and ineptitude, and it kind of became a chore. I gradually fell into becoming just a re-blogging copy machine of tidbits and articles that I stumbled upon centering on my favorite subjects (Bukowski, Syd Barrett, Kinks, Jayne Mansfield, hillbilly humor, Texas Punk history and so on and so forth). But it seems that the time has come to return to my roots (did I really just write that trite line?). Enough! Let's get to the Few, Good Borrowed Images...

(via http://www.whudat.de/skull-teapot-von-trevor-jackson/)

Skull Teapot von Trevor Jackson