Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras, 1914 by Joseph Stella (1877–1946)
Tag: Art
L’il Bullshiwikki (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
The Fairy Tale — Harrington Mann
The Fairy Tale, 1902 by Harrington Mann (1864–1937)
Endless Energy for Limitless Living — Rockwell Kent
Endless Energy for Limitless Living, 1946 by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)
February — Evelyn Dunbar
February, 1938 by Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960)
The Sisters — Ralph Peacock
The Sisters, 1900 by Ralph Peacock (1868–1946)
Do Bugs Feel Fear? — Denis Sarazhin
Do Bugs Feel Fear?, 2016 by Denis Sarazhin (b. 1982)
Matinee — Jonathan Wateridge
Matinee, 2011 by Jonathan Wateridge (b. 1972)
Parson Weems’ Fable — Grant Wood
Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939 by Grant Wood (1891–1942)
The Centurion’s Servant — Stanley Spencer
The Centurion’s Servant, 1914 by Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
Two by Dmitry Samarov (Books acquired 7 Feb. 2020)
Copies of Dmitry Samarov’s latest books, Soviet Stamps and Music to My Eyes showed up at Biblioklept World Headquarters the other week. I started in on Music to My Eyes, a kind of fragmentary memoir told in sketches (both verbal and literal) of the Chicago music scene. The determiner “the” in the previous sentence is wrong, of course, as is the singular noun “scene” — Samarov’s book shows the diversity of the city’s music, even if fans will be able to connect the dots between bands like Eleventh Dream Day, Mekons, and Brokeback. There are stories that float around Nick Cave, Arto Lindsay, Neko Case, and many, many others. Samarov’s brief chapter on the Silver Jews ends with an anecdote about not getting to meet Berman in 2018. The final lines are heartbreaking: “Maybe there’ll be more songs. Then I could stop being mad at him for walking away too soon.”
Here’s Samarov on U.S. Maple, who made some of the strangest music ever during that weird slice of time from the mid-nineties to the mid-aughts. U.S. Maple is by far the most confounding live band I’ve ever seen; it’s easy to throw around the word deconstruction, but their live performances were deconstructions of rocknroll:
East Village Apartment II — Salman Toor
East Village Apartment II, 2017 by Salman Toor (b. 1983)
Lover’s Leap — Kyle Dunn
Lover’s Leap, 2019 by Kyle Dunn (b. 1990)
The Seeress of Prevorst — Gabriel von Max
The Seeress of Prevorst, 1892 by Gabriel von Max (1840-1915)
Annunciation — Gely Korzhev
Annunciation, 1997 by Gely Korzhev (1925-2012)
My Parents — David Hockney
My Parents, 1977 by David Hockney (b. 1937)
Prospectors — Nigel Cooke
Prospectors, 2013 by Nigel Cooke (b. 1973)
Biblioklept 