Great post collecting illustrations inspired by Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851)
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 | Un être vivant ne s’adapte jamais à son milieu ou alors, en s’adaptant, il meurt. La lutte pour la vie est la lutte pour la non-adaptation. Vivre, c’est être différent. C’est pourquoi toutes les grandes espèces végétales et zoologiques sont monstrueuses. |
“Emmanuel Frémiet (December 6, 1824 – 10 September 1910) was a French sculptor. […] In the meanwhile he had exhibited his masterly “Gorilla Carrying off a Woman” which won him a medal of honour at the Salon of 1887. Although praised in its time, this work now evokes ridicule from some observers for its depiction of a gorilla abducting a nude woman, presumably with the intention of raping her - something not totally alien to actual gorilla behaviour, but orangutans, especially, have been recorded attempting to abduct female humans. Accordingly, this act has caught the public’s imagination, as witnessed by the repeated popularity of the King Kong theme.” (Wikipedia)
Banksy: “TV has made us into monsters” (drawing).
“Feel-good nostalgia tells us that 1969 was the height of the hippie, warm-fuzzy era of peace and love, and that this week’s other 40th anniversary, of the Woodstock music festival, was its pinnacle: A moment where individualism, non-conformity and the creative impulse reigned, where repression was challenged and, in many ways, fell.
But that’s rose-coloured hindsight of a fractious time that unleashed demons as much as it seeded naïve idealism. The Cielo Dr. killings, and the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Feliz a day later, were as much a product of those times. No one embodies this dark flowering more than the murderers’ puppetmaster, Charles Manson. And his stamp on the culture is arguably deeper and more lasting than Woodstock’s.” (The Star, “Charles Manson Was The Real Face of 1969” by Murray Whyte, August 8, 2009).
Kintzertorium explains : “► The two inseparable brothers were born on March 20, 1617; thier parents were Baptista and Pellegrina Colloredo, living in the parish of Saint Bartholomeus de Costa in Genua. Both twins were baptized at the font: the larger one was named Lazarus and his brother, Joannes Baptista. Their parents were healthy and had previously several healthy children. According to the report, while Lazarus’s body was healthy in every respect, Joannes Baptista had a malformed body and did not open his eyes. Lazarus was the only one to suckle his mother and to emit excrement and urine. when his brother got some droplets of milk on his lips, his lips moved as if he tried to swallow them. Lazarus & Joannes Baptista’s mother had died in 1620. The conjured twins died in the year 1621, aged 4. ► Engraving made by Andreas Frisius, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1665, for Liceti’s book: De monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, m.d. & p.p. Qui monstra quaedam nova & rariora ex recentiorum scriptis addidit. Editio novissima iconibus illustrata. ► Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657) graduated from the University of Bologna in 1600 with a double doctorate in philosophy and medicine. He accepted a chair in logic and physics at the University of Pisa where he developed a reputation as an expert on Aristotle. Liceti is best remembered for his controversial works on genetic anomalies, hieroglyphics and astronomical debates.In this work, Liceti celebrates “monstrosity” by depicting persons with genetic anomalies as creatures of rarity and reverence and not as examples of God’s divine wrath. One of the earliest classifications of deformities, Liceti’s work was still under review in works on malformation in the 19th century. Includes both real and imaginary cases.”
1st edition (1634) on sale on Abebooks (4279.20 EUR) and on Bibliopoly ($5,850.00), among others.
About Kintzertorium’s (Assaf Kintzer): “Although I’m a Philosophy, Theology, Aesthetics & Musicology scholar, I have a deep interest in the world of visual arts. My main interest lies within europien early prints, from Medieval to 19th century.” (Read more)
Visit the official site of UK illustrator Andy Smith
| Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new strain of the swine flu virus H1N1 have been reported in London. After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection. |
