April 5, 2009
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Wikipedia
Featured:  |
Sexploitation film slicks 1963–1973 from the Badmags site.
Celluloid @140
On this day April 6, 1869, celluloid is patented. Since then, celluloid has become metonymical with cinema. The word can also be found in the title of the French/American record label Celluloid Records and in the title of the Anglophone gay film book The Celluloid Closet.
Au carrefour étrange uncovered a 1947 edition of Petrus Borel's Champavert [1] and presents us with the exceptional work of Jean Marembert.
Jean Marembert (1904-1968) was a French artist who is tangentially connected to such people as Louis Cattiaux, Jean Crotti, Suzanne Valadon, Kees Van Dongen, Paul Colin, Moise Kisling, Man Ray, Leonor Fini and Labisse. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Tuileries. His biography can be found in the 2004 book on figurative painting, Modern Figurative Paintings: The Paris Connection. Modern Figurative Paintings: The Paris Connection (2004) is a book by Martin Wolpert and Jeffrey Winter on modern figurative painting.
From the blurb of Modern Figurative Paintings: The Paris Connection:
Mike Kitchell says
- "I hold the song (Riz Ortolani - Do It To Me (Once More)[2]) in close proximity to Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band's "Going to a Show Down"[3] due to each song's tangential connection to an overtly violent genre picture."
