Diablerie
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- From what I can gather, they were originally created in the 19th century as small tabletop dioramas by, perhaps, three enigmatic sculptors. (There is some speculation that because of the heretical nature of the sculptures and their subversive commentary on French society of the time, that the creators had no desire to be well-known.) With the advent of photography, images were made of the sculptures - as stereo-photographs and rear-projection tissues. The original sculptures appear to have been destroyed. the laughingbone
Diableries : La Vie Quotidienne Chez Satan a la Fin du 19e Siecle
by Jac Remise
Publisher: André Balland
Place Published: France
Date Published: 1978
Description: Pictorial boards, 28 cm., unpaginated, with black and white plates. Wonderful and weird.
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