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Max Klinger-Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove 1. Place-1881
One of the most prominent artists of his time, the German Symbolist Max Klinger is now predominantly remembered for his series of ten etchings entitled Paraphrase über den Fund eines Handschuhs (Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove) first completed in 1877-1878, then revised in a mixed technique of engraving, etching and aquatint in 1881.
A Glove is widely considered to be an important link between Symbolism and Surrealism with it dream-like narrative, changes in size and scale and its symbolic fetishism. It is hard to deny the sexual significance of A Glove and it definitely lends itself to a Freudian interpenetration, though it predates Freud by nearly two decades.
Here is the entire series which I hope you enjoy and I would also be very interesting in what ‘A Glove’ suggests to my readers.
2.Action
3. Yearnings
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Desexualise the Female Form
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My good friend and talented artist S.R has illustrated my erotic short story Unmade Again. Her distinctive drawings have previously graced An Illustrated Promise of Paradise. If you like the below story, my collection Motion No. 69, fulsomely illustrated by T.Kiros will be available this Thursday November 30th, 2017.
Murky, very very murky, decidedly, definitely so –how else could I describe my motives for not fucking Margot. Before getting in the car I stared up at the window where I had just left Margot lying unclothed and spread-eagled on the mussed-up bed. That thought made me hesitate for a moment, but I got in the car anyway and started the ignition.
As I drove at speed through the somnolent streets of her neighbourhood I was in considerable physical discomfort. Pressing my crotch against the steering wheel afforded some relief but what I really needed was the release that…
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The Flowers of Evil: The Balcony
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Frederic Bazille-La Toilette 1870 It is impossible to overestimate the influence of Charles Baudelaire upon modernity. The entire Symbolism/Decadent movement that so dominated the 19th Century fin-de-siecle in Europe owed its very existence to Baudelaire.
Baudelaire’s importance extends far deeper that the creation of one transitory artistic school however. Although he didn’t invent the concept of dandyism (that honour belongs to Beau Brummel), his example gave it a wider cultural currency that eventually resulted in the carefully constructed persona of the ultimate aesthete and wit, Oscar Wilde. His wanderings around the Parisian streets led to Walter Benjamin formulating a new type of man, theflaneur. Thefigure of the flaneur recurs frequently inBenjamin’s massive, unfinished magnum opusThe Arcades Project. The spirit ofthe Baudelaireanflaneurguided the Surrealists in their impromptuflea-market jaunts and nocturnal adventuring. TheSituationist International (see Moving Images) took theflaneura step further and the central…
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Power Of Hope|قدرت امید
Once again I would like to share an advisory tale from my childhood.
There was a little part of the world where many animals lived close to each other peacefully.
They had a small pond in the area where they shared water for drinking, washing and cooling down.
The weather was getting warmer every day. As a result, the pond’s water was evaporating and there was no rain to replace it for months.
The situation was getting a little scary and it starting to concern the animals, so they gathered to talk about the problem. There really wasn’t anything they could do but hope and pray for rain.
Everyone was getting sad and depressed. They were losing hope.
One of the animals suggested if one animal climbed the big hill every day, they would be able to see if any clouds were coming from afar. If that animal saw a…
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The Beach
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The Beach-Thea Kiros
In approximately 6 hours and 9 minutes both formats of my collection of 69 inter-related poems and short fictions Motion No. 69 will be available for purchase here. At the present moment only the e-book is available, somewhat ahead of schedule for a change.
Rather like its author, this collection is slim, elegant, charming and darkly attractive. Motion No. 69 shows also that there is truth in advertising after all. A must read for a rainy day on the beach, whether it is a Blue Monday or not.
Mythology: “The Golden Apple of Discord” / Poetry: “Who is The Fairest?”, by Christy Birmingham .-
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►Greek Mythology: “The Golden Apple of Discord” /
►Poetry: “Who is The Fairest?”, by Christy Birmingham:
“The Judgment of Paris” by Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1812).-
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The Garden of the Hesperides was Hera´s orchard, where either a single tree or a grove of immortality-giving golden apples grew. The apples were planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to Hera as a wedding gift when Hera accepted Zeus. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove, but occasionally plucked from it themselves. Not trusting them, Hera also placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon as an additional safeguard.
However, in the mythology surrounding “the Judgement of Paris”, the goddess of Discord Eris managed to enter the garden and pluck a golden apple.
Eris had become disgruntled after she was excluded from the wedding of Peleus and Tetis (Achilles ‘ parents).
Angered by this snub, Eris arrived at the…
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Greek Mythology: “Agamemnon’s Family and the War of Troy”.-
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“Agamemnon’s Family and the War of Troy”:
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The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera and Aphrodite after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked “for the fairest” (Kallisti in greek).
Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the “fairest”, should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Prince Paris, who took her to Troy.
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“Venus Induces Helen to Fall in Love with Paris” by Angelica Kauffmann (1790).-
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Agamemnon, the king of Argos or Mycenae, was the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes and Chrysotemis.
Menelaus was Agamemnon’ s brother, and, besides, the king of Sparta.
When Helen, Menelaus’ wife, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the…
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►Greek Mythology: “Helen of Troy” / Poem: “Helen of Troy”, by Sue Dreamwalker.-
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“Hélène glorifiée” by Gustave Moreau (1897).
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Helen of Troy, also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda and sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux.
Pollux shared a father with Helen (Zeus), whilst Castor’s and Clytemnestra’s father was he king of Sparta, Tyndareus.
In Greek myths, Helen was considered the most beautiful woman in the world.
By marriage she was Queen of Laconia, a province within Homeric Greece, the wife of King Menelaus, who was Agamemnon‘s brother.
When it was time for Helen to marry, many princes came to seek her hand.
During the contest, Castor and Pollux had a prominent role in dealing with the suitors, although the final decision was in the hands of King Tyndareus, Helen’s father.
Menelaus, her future husband, did not attend but sent his brother, Agamemnon on his behalf.
Before this, when Helen was a…
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