[shihlun]

Hiroshi Teshigahara

- The Face of Another

1966

[marlenchen]

Ingrid Thulin & Helmut Griem in THE DAMNED 1969, dir. Luchino Visconti You're the worst. So it's you I hate! Ah, you can't imagine the evil I wish you. I will destroy you, Mother.

[pmamtraveller]

Ryoko Kimura - Banquet of Mermaids

[sharpenededgess]

Jean Paul Gaultier - SS25

[portalibis]

Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge, No. 7b, c. 1913-1915

[sovietpostcards]

Lilacs. Photo postcard by G. Kostenko (1970).

[plaquesandtangles]

Vlčí bouda (1987) dir. Věra Chytilová

[avanelle]

Bless my husband who allows me to smush his eye ball with my big ass glasses

[enchantedbook]

'The Fairy of Flower, Narkissus' by Anna and Elena Balbusso.

[evolutionists]

Sylvia Ballhause.

Cinemas.

[stanestreet]

As for Amis’s heirs, the question is more vexed. We have our literary stars but none with his billboard status or his swagger. This was always a double-edged attribute and yet his willingness to go there feels sorely absent from today’s rather more introverted and humourless literary scene, where many of our most feted writers seem to be scared of their own shadow.

[...] The truth is that Amis was a product of his time and, to use a 21st-century term, his privilege. His fearlessness is, perhaps, irreplicable in our hyper-scrutinised era. The media landscape has changed too. There aren’t too many places that will publish 5,000-word essays on Nabokov. Now most of us write with one eye on how our words may be used against us by our enemies. It’s left a lot of contemporary authors feeling cramped, fearful, guarded. Even writers as forthright in their opinions as Cusk or the critic Lauren Oyler write in prose as well defended as Stalingrad.

Johanna Thomas-Corr, Martin Amis wrote without fear. Who is brave enough to be his heir?

[derangedrhythms]

What am I interested in? Passion. Obsession.

Jeanette Winterson, from ‘The Passion’

[summertimenoir]

Lana Turner in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

[gouged-doll]

[excurseon]

it’s time to make a decision

[avisionseeninyou]

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

Artist

“Something is a work of art when it has filled its role as therapy for the artist. I don't care about the audience. I'm not working for the audience. The audience is welcome to take what they can.”

She is taking the words right out of my mouth.

[megairea]

Li Qingzhao, from Peonies (tr. by Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung)

[mariean2inette]

Irina Pantaeva for Dior, FW97