2008 June 24
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Oriental Fascination – Japonism in Belgium exhibition in Brussels.
The Erotická revue[1] was an arts journal launched by Czech surrealist Jindřich Štyrský in 1930. It is also the name of the blog of American author Evie Byrne[2].
Speaking of Czech surrealism, I just found some Svankmajer clips at YouTube. Some of his best work: Dimensions of Dialogue (1982), which shows Arcimboldo-like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies ("exhaustive discussion"[3]); a clay man and woman who dissolve into one another sexually, then quarrel and reduce themselves to a frenzied, boiling pulp ("passionate discourse"[4]); and two elderly clay heads who extrude various objects on their tongues (toothbrush and toothpaste; shoe and shoelaces, etc.) and use them in every possible combination, sane or otherwise ("factual conversation"[5]).
Last minute, it's Trevor Brown day[6] over at Dennis Cooper's blog.
Rietveld @ 120.
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (June 24, 1888–June 26, 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
Rietveld designed the Red and Blue Chair in 1917, but changed its colours to the familiar style in 1918 after he became influenced by the 'De Stijl' movement.
See Dutch design, modernist design.
