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Friday, May 20, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Lee Brown Coye... illustrations...
Ambrose Bierce's "Oil of Dog"
Lord Dunsany's "the Exiles Club"
Arthur Machen's "History of the Young Man With Spectacles"
more weird and wonderful Coye work and other wonders from >> FREEDOM SCHOOL RECORDS
more weird and wonderful Coye work and other wonders from >> FREEDOM SCHOOL RECORDS
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Austin Osman Spare ... The Formula of Atavistic Resurgence...
~ Austin Osman Spare ~
30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956
The Formula of Atavistic Resurgence
Zos-Kia Cultus
Zos-Kia Cultus
Austin Osman Spare created this Stele embodying the secret glyphs and sigils of the Cultus.
"There is a Grimoire of symbology, of vague phonic nuances that conjoins all thoughts and is the cryptic language of the subconscious world." AOS
"I teach the equal reality of all things, man and his illusions: Dreams shall flesh ...some day." AOS
Whatever the value of Spare’s contribution to art and psychology, his contribution to experimental occultism is supreme, for he discovered a method of reifying the dream world under the controlling aegis of the fully conscious will.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Hans Bellmer...print.... undated
“The body resembles a sentence that seems to invite us to dismantle it into its component letters, so that its true meanings may be revealed anew through an endless stream of anagrams.”
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer
André Pieyre de Mandiargues on Bellmer...
“He was highly intelligent and seemed to have no sense of culpability or sin—there was innocence in his perversity. His eroticism was intellectual rather than sensual, cold rather than hot: this attracted me to him because like me, he was basically a puritan, and like me, he had no time for vulgar sensuality.”
Monday, May 9, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Wormwood Star - The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron ...
The first biography of the artist, performer, poet, and occult practitioner, Cameron (Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel) is out now... was delighted to be at its launch in Treadwell's Books in London
Cameron embarked on a lifelong spiritual quest, a journey reflected in the otherworldly images she depicted,
many of them drawn from the Elemental Kingdom and astral plane, some you can see here
many of them drawn from the Elemental Kingdom and astral plane, some you can see here
Published by Mandrake of Oxford
Wormwood Star written by Spencer Kansa traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist
Marjorie Cameron,
one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and film scene.
With so much of her life and work shrouded in mystery, Wormwood Star sheds new light on this most remarkable artist and elusive occult icon.
one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and film scene.
With so much of her life and work shrouded in mystery, Wormwood Star sheds new light on this most remarkable artist and elusive occult icon.
for more info > www.spencerkansa.com
previous > Cameron
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Austin Osman Spare ... Ugly Ecstasy ...Satyr...
from the Book of Ugly Ecstasy 1924 - Fulgur 1996
it would be sentimental to say that the figures in Ugly Ectasy and Automatic Drawings
are happy despite theirhideous appearances....in the words of WH Audens poem, 'In Memory of Sigmund Freud' -
Down among the lost people like Dante, down
To the stinking fosse where the injured
Lead the ugly life of the rejected.
Nevertheless, Spare signed off Automatic Drawing on a defiant and innuendo-laden note: "Great is he who pleasures this difficult life," he wrote, and "He has found wisdom who knows how to spend"*
*Victorian euphemism for ejaculation.
excerpt from Austin Osman Spare - The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
by Phil Baker
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Dave M Mitchell...'Fungi From Yuggoth' ..illustrations
discarded prototypes from a forthcoming book from Paraphilia Magazine - 'Fungi From Yuggoth (and other strange growths)' ~ Lovecraft poems and fragments with illustrations by author, illustrator and one of the editors at Paraphilia Magazine.
you can see more of Dave Mitchells work at Paraphilia's Gallery HERE
and in the new issue of PARAPHILIA MAGAZINE issue 11 out now > HERE
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
My works... drawing & verse
Dolorosa 2010 - She Came
Because you gave me your thought
I swim the immense
You gave me your thought
I turned red
You gave me your thought
I swim in all forms
I am a black bird
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Mervyn Peake 1911-1968 .... drawing...
Pen line drawing 1957
"We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast,
paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,
when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter,
new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect."
— Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
André Marty (1882 -1974)...watercolour...
Ida Rubinstein dans La Gisanelle Original watercolor for Gazette Du Bon Ton
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Félix Labisse 1905-1982
1973 'LE CONSEIL DE SANG'
1976 'Glasybolas'
a lovely set on FLICKR
two illustrations from Eon Ekis. De l'homme, de la femme et de la violence dans leur comportement amoureux. Ed. Le Terrain Vague 1958 (?) puis Ed. Eric Losfeld 1966 et 1969.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Una Gildea... collages... Tales of Seduction
Tales of Seduction 13
Tales of Seduction 1
Tales of Seduction 14
Tales of Seduction 3
full series at > UNA GILDEA < artists homepage
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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