October 7, 2012  

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the aesthetics of the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting

It's surprising how little of the work of Eduard Fuchs is to be found on-line, considering that he died in 1940 and that his work has since passed into the public domain.

I managed to find an "enhanced" version of Geschichte der erotischen Kunst. Band 1: Das zeitgeschichtliche Problem[1] (the "enhancement" is an amusing artistic intervention by German artist Karl-Ludwig Sauer resulting in an altered book).

In that book (in the unaltered part by Fuchs) I found a painting with in caption Darf ich kommen? (a naked woman peeping from behind the door, as if asking, 'can I come?') by Wiertz, an engraving Les Nymphes scrupuleuses, after Lawreince (Nicolas Lavreince), and one of the lost paintings of Boucher.

Also, a lovely sculpture: the Faun und Nymphe Bronzegruppe[2][3], which is similar to a painting by Arthur Fischer.