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Jankel Adler 14 Jan 2013 | 09:57 pm
No Man's Land, 1943 Cleron, the Cat Breeder, 1925 Composition, c.1943 Landscape, 1953 The Game, 1933 The Poet Ein Jude, c.1926 Jankel Adler was born in Tuszyn, near Łódź in 1895. His family wer...
New music 30 Dec 2012 | 07:09 pm
Six new/reworked tracks up on Soundcloud, and I'd like to think they're a significant improvement on previous recordings. I'm frantically busy with my MA at the moment, but we'll hopefully play live a...
Yet more Quay covers 10 Sep 2012 | 03:39 am
Previously: one, two. And there's lots of their drawings and graphic work to be seen in this exhibition catalogue.
Wallace Smith revisited 2 Sep 2012 | 12:04 am
Julien Gorbach, who's writing a doctoral dissertation on Ben Hecht, very kindly sent me some images and articles by Wallace Smith (see this previous post) from the Chicago Literary Times, a paper esta...
Music for Films 1 Sep 2012 | 09:04 pm
I've mostly been working on music lately so the illustration's taken a back seat, but I did manage to find time to put together an entry for this competition on the marvelous Venus febriculosa blog. T...
Fred Tomaselli 17 Jun 2012 | 07:47 am
Having recently finished TechGnosis, Erik Davis's fascinating exploration of the various esoteric and mystical currents lurking within our supposedly rational technological society, I'm currently read...
Das Kabinett des Jan Švankmajer 3 Jun 2012 | 04:40 am
A while ago I complained that the art of Jan Švankmajer wasn't easy to come by. This exhibition catalogue rectifies the situation with numerous reproductions of his collage chimaeras, photos of his "n...
Eduard Wiiralt 20 May 2012 | 08:03 am
I came across the Estonian artist and illustrator Eduard Wiiralt (1898-1954) in S.A. Mansbach's Modern Art In Eastern Europe, which has this to say about him: Wiiralt's artistic career was conducted ...
Loplop 11 May 2012 | 01:54 pm
Loplop présente, 1931 Loplop présente... les vipères, 1931 Loplop aux papillons, c.1932 Max humaine et papillons pétrefiés, 1931 Le facteur Cheval, 1932 Du verre, 1932 Loplop présente, 1931 ...
The Depository 6 May 2012 | 12:43 pm
The Depository (1994) was Andrzej Klimowski's first graphic novel, and it's a wordless, ambiguous (and, yes, "dreamlike", "surreal" etc) tale of flying people with books for wings and the sinister org...
