RIP Pierre Bourgeade (1927 – 2009)

RIP Pierre Bourgeade Yaba Yayınları published Ölümsüz Bakireler, presumably a Turkish translation of Les Immortelles. –Sholem Stein Pierre Bourgeade (November 8, 1927 – March 12, 2009) was a French writer, novelist, dramatist, poet, screenwriter, journalist, literary critic and writer. Rita Renoir met with her first critical success in the theatrical piece Les Immortelles by Bourgeade. […]

Jeremy Bentham @261

Jeremy Bentham @261 Presidio Modelo, Cuba, photo by Friman Jeremy Bentham (February 15 , 1748 – June 6, 1832)  was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer, best-known today for devising the Panopticon. He was a political radical and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known as an […]

What the Butler Saw

I have received questions about the signification of What the Butler Saw in my post on the Düsseldorf erotic art exposition [1]. I’ve introduced two fictional characters on this blog. One has been rather active, Sholem Stein[2], another, Waloli has only done three posts[3]. The butler may be third character (although the only character I […]

De Daemonialitate et Incubis et Succubis

La Dormeuse (1765) by Pierre Antoine Baudouin Recent scholarship by Sholem Stein has revealed that the protagonist reader in this painting by French artist Pierre Antoine Baudouin had been reading either Sinistrari d’Ameno‘s Demoniality Or Incubi and Succubi or Claude Le Petit‘s “Apologie de Chausson.” The woman reader was previously believed to have fallen asleep […]

John Milton @400

I strangely missed English cult poet John Milton‘s 400th birthday, luckily John Coulthart reminded me of it. [1] John Milton (1608 – 1674) is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, and for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. Gustave Doré‘s Paradise Lost John Martin‘s Paradise Lost On the significance of Paradise Lost, it’s safe […]

Baldassare Castiglione @530

The Book of the Courtier (1528) – Baldassare Castiglione Baldassare Castiglione (1478 – 1529) was an Italian diplomat and author, best-known for his book on etiquette, The Book of the Courtier, which came to play a role in the 20th century aesthetics of cool* by having defined the concept of sprezzatura, “a certain nonchalance, so […]

Jacques Mesrine: in the vortex of related events

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOfUbthtDhQ&] If there is one current film I would like to recommend, it’s Public Enemy Number One (Part 1)[1], a biopic of French criminal Jacques Mesrine with sympathies for the European radical political urban guerrilleros RAF and Red Brigades, who eventually died in the late seventies for craving his 15 minutes of fame somewhat too […]

Ennio Morricone @ 80 II

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Nw_yEh6G0&] “Se telefonando” (1966) by Mina (for previously unreleased footage of Mr. Stein, scrub to 0:39.) “The extraordinary thing about “Se telefonando” is that it has everything which is expected from a song: verse, structure and melody. Yet it also, very subtly, negates these qualities. The musical elements are reduced to handful of spiraling notes.” […]

Introducing Henri/y Gerbault

Introducing Henri Gerbault I’m just a jealous guy Henry Gerbault (June 24, 1863– October 19 1930), also spelled Henri Gerbault was a French illustrator and poster artist. He was a student of Henri Gervex. He was the nephew of Sully Prudhomme. Poster for the Théatre Libre The Théâtre Libre (French, Free Theater) was a theater […]