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Paul Brightwell

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Actor, claqueur rep. Curtis Brown

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Patrick McGuinness@padrig.bsky.social · 5d ago

Raoul Vaneigem, lifelong heretic and heretophile(?), a thinker and scholar, poet of revolt & ex situationist comrade (then not) of Guy Debord. His Traité de savoir vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations was an inspiration in 68 and remains thrilling to read. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Mort de Raoul Vaneigem, philosophe libertaire et inspirateur de Mai 68

Le penseur belge, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», in...

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Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

Hermann Landshoff Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1954 The model is looking at "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" (The Large Glass), by Marcel Duchamp One of the great fashion photographs.

A model in a long skirt leans down to look closely at the art work.
~Art+Rage~@artrage.bsky.social · 3w ago

"The force that will be used to maintain order will be proportionate to the magnitude of the resistance encountered." —Manifesto by General Francisco Franco, 17 July 1936 via radio broadcast.

Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · last yr.

"The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye." - Remembering Jacques Derrida on his birthday 🎂 📷 Torbjørn Rødland, Five Tears, 2014

A photograph of a young woman with tears running down her cheeks
Paul Brightwell@brightwell.bsky.social · last mo.

Leonora Carrington The Return of Boadicea 1969 oil on canvas 80.6 x 80.6 cm 'A Roman [is] being degutted by one of the horses, they are using the horns growing out of each side of their muzzle to eviscerate the enemy.' (LC)

'Julius Caesar observed that Britons looked at the hare, the cock and the goose as creatures unlawful to eat, and that the study of birds and animals had been part of the divination process that helped Boadicea win the battle against the Romans. The story, first told by Roman historian, Cassius Dio, is that Boadicea employed a form of divination during her battle with the Romans and released a hare from the folds of her dress, following its direction as an indication of where to strike at the Romans. Carrington draws on all the elements of this story in her rendering of the subject. Against a swirling celestial background, the legendary Celtic warrior queen Boadicea charges across a cosmic expanse in her horse-drawn chariot. Figures and beasts scatter in her path as she reclaims her power, embodying a timeless myth of vengeance and rebirth. The work’s symbolically charged atmosphere make it one of Carrington’s most striking late works: a declaration of female strength rendered through mythic transformation.' (Sotheby's)
Paul Brightwell@brightwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In other words, by 1959 Old Golds were pretty square. Burroughs himself preferred - at least when he was in London - untipped Senior Service, a classic British cigarette brand the taste for which was absolutely the only thing he had in common with my father

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Paul Brightwell@brightwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘Hauser had a way of hitting you before he said anything just to break the ice. Then O’Brien gives you an Old Gold - just like a cop to smoke Old Golds somehow…' William Burroughs, Naked Lunch 1959

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Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy birthday Jim Dine 🎂 🎨 Self-portrait, 2023 "It's said we were the inheritors of Pollock's tradition. That's crap. Oldenburg and I came out of the theatre that we knew; we were literate young men. We came out of Brecht, Artaud. We looked to Genet."

Charcoal on paper, the head of the painter.
Forever Louise Brooks@foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Ogled by an octogenarian? When an Amorous Antique can’t take his aged glimmers off your silken shapelies, don’t fry him to a frizzle. Brighten up, by lightin’ up a honey smooth Old Gold. These mellow-as-moonlight O.G.’s have charms to soothe even the savage peeve.” (1936)

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Paul Brightwell@brightwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's another mise en abyme image, a poster for a 1979 Fluxus group show in Nice. Participants included George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Daniel Spoerri, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Ben Vautier, and others.

64 x 45 cm, printed black on packing paper. Announces the Fluxus group show held from July 5 to September 23, 1979 in Nice, previously presented at Elac, Lyon, April 1979. The poster is up for auction on June 19th at Zwiggelaar Auctions in Amsterdam
Paul Brightwell@brightwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Victor Brauner Coupe des cent-vingt dispositions érotomagiques 1946 wax on panel 68 x 53.5 cm one of a great cache of Brauner works from the Feinsilber Collection, up for auction at Sotheby's in a few days

Having settled in Paris in 1938, Brauner took refuge from the Nazis in the Hautes-Alpes in April 1942, where he lived in hiding for nearly three years under conditions of extreme austerity. The shortage of traditional materials led him to experiment with alternative supports and media, notably candle wax and later beeswax, which opened up new formal possibilities within his practice. "Unable to obtain oil paint, he created wax paintings by spreading a thin layer of melted candle grease onto canvas or cardboard, then engraving a drawing into the surface, later accentuated with soot-black; the forms themselves were coloured with lightly glazed tones." (Marcel Jean, The History of Surrealist Painting, London, 1960)