David G. Goodman - Angura: Posters Of The Japanese Avant-Garde
This is specifically posters for theatre from 60s-70s. It's a very slim book but an interesting overview of the time, along with the posters and there's photos of performances. There's a lot of focus on the rejection of modernism and designs that would be internationally accessible, because they wanted to reclaim things like the disreputable side of Kabuki and other parts of japanese culture that were getting buried. We also see what parts of western culture they were embracing.
Some of it leans towards psychedelic, some photo collage and there's several famous manga artists. My favorite is Oikawa Masamichi because of his detailed rendering style. Goodman gives commentary for each poster and he sees lots of sexual symbolism I don't. There's a bibliography at the back including plays that have been translated into english (this book is from 1999 though).
I know next to nothing about avant-garde theatre but I was intrigued by the ideas: distinctions between very different seeming things fading into chaos; a play's second act having a real bus journey that takes the audience to an apartment to interview the people who live there; a Shuji Terayama play that none of the audience gets to see the whole of, so the different segments of the audience has to share what happened in the parts they did see to construct the whole story.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 8 September 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
Pete Beard's channel is quite impressive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ENmETU2tw
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
Re: Heizer's City, has anyone seen any reports from anyone who has visited it? As far as I know it opened in early September, but I can't find anything except a YouTube video of some dudes who attempted to go there and skateboard on it (obv that didn't work out for them).
― J. Sam, Thursday, 6 October 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Questionable thread to put this in but I couldn't think of a better thread: The Last Family (2016), a biopic about Zdzislaw Beksinski and his family (his radio DJ/music critic/translator son Tomasz gets the second most attention) is great, doesn't follow the usual biopic patterns either (or I didn't notice them). Great to hear Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook in a film too, great choice.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfFt9RfO9Bc
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 8 October 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
I was surprised by just how much raw material there was to work from (loads of recordings, interviews), seems unusual for that kind of artist but maybe not
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 8 October 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
a good vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4EPmuA--VU
― Karl Malone, Monday, 10 October 2022 04:11 (one year ago) link
Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall. pic.twitter.com/M8YP1LPTOU— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 14, 2022
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 October 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
Kim Jung Gi died of a heart attack at 47
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 15 October 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8iRbVqF3gLovely documentary about Leonor Fini from 1987. I haven't seen many things like this for artists I'm so fond of. I have no idea what kind of percentage of her work is available online and in books in one handy place because it seems like there was probably hundreds and hundreds of stuff. She shows her phone doodles and they're mostly cat people, the cat men in wrestling pants made me laugh.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 November 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
During lockdown, I got a bit addicted to Sotheby's and Christie's Youtube channels, the auctions can make you a bit queasy but before each auction livestream they often float out these short films, dedicated to the painter and painting for sale, and they can be very illuminating.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
I had seen some of the paintings but never knew about the sottobosco movement, this was pretty exciting for mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHBB483Dcdw
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 December 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
Love this bollock naked man jumping up with flying dogshttp://www.susannahmartin.de/images/werk/malerei/werk-full/salon-dogs-meet-death-worm.jpg
The images aren't loading right for me but this is the only place I've seen these pictures all in one place. I wonder what her writing is like?https://honesterotica.com/illustrator/louise-hervieu
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 10 December 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
Woah. That jumping dogs piece is intense...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 10 December 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
Really loving James Pryde, a lot of his paintings look like formerly wealthy people living in the ruins of their homes or just a generally darkening world.https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CKS/2011_CKS_08014_0252_000(james_ferrier_pryde_the_deserted_garden013613).jpghttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/04/2e/c1/042ec13c62d57462f9537e57ef221233.jpgNice painting of Henry Irvinghttps://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/176438.jpg?itok=xsLGzQJk
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 January 2023 00:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.rachaelpease.com/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
Thought it was her husband she killed but nohttps://unquietthings.com/of-dreams-and-dark-pasts-surrealist-painter-sofia-bassi/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 April 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
https://imgsed.com/p/CwxcBpWtZVJ/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 25 September 2023 18:47 (seven months ago) link
https://imgsed.com/lera.dubitskaya/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 25 September 2023 20:00 (seven months ago) link
I got lost in this amazing shop site connected to the 50Watts online gallery and I don't believe I've ever seen Gerard Wagner before, there's not much of him online but there's a few recent books devoted to him and his work with Rudolf Steinerhttps://50wattsbooks.com/products/goetheanum-cupola-motifs-of-rudolf-steiner-discounted
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 December 2023 21:08 (four months ago) link
https://huariqueje.tumblr.com/post/185835881201/ancient-pool-ierapolis-maria-filopoulou
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 25 January 2024 19:12 (three months ago) link