Thursday, February 28, 2013

Designing decadence

Egan Beresford, Flowers of Evil

It's difficult to grasp decadence without this provisional list of books and characters.

The Master:
Charles Baudelaire, Fleurs du Mal, (bilingual translation)

Pleasure & deviations:
Oscar Wilde, Portrait of Dorian Gray,
Andre Gide, The Immoralist,
Leopold Sacher Masoch, Venus in Furs,

Preciousness, snobism:
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice,
J. K. Huysmans, Against the Grain, 
Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle Maupin,

Evil:
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw,
George de Maurier, Trilby,

Hysteria, phobia, ennui, pain:
Leo Tolstoi, Anna Karenina,
Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground,
Franz Kafka, The Trial,

Monsters:
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis,

Dreams:
Sygmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams,

Artists:
Aubrey Beardsley, (illustrator)
Egan Beresford, (illustration)
Gustave Moreau, (painter)
Fernand Khnopff, (painter)
Gustav Klimt, (painter)
Rodolphe Bresdin, (engraver, illustrator)
Alfred Kubin, (illustrator)

Sunday, February 24, 2013

your turn #5


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

to keep in mind

in my syllabus (on course contents and grades):  

Post comments amount to 25% of the final grade. 

Sunday, February 10, 2013

your turn #4

honoré de balzac, photo by nadar

Thursday, February 7, 2013

in-between epochs

another one by the talenccentric Mark Addison Smith

Monday, February 4, 2013

your turn #3

illustration adam lilfuchs fuchs