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“Desleal es aquel que desaparece cuando el camino es oscuro.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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The Young Like It Hot - Bob Chinn, Jim Holliday - 1983 - USA

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Maya Deren, by Alexandr Hackenschmied.

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Chris Burden - Doomed (1975)

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Bulgarian Demon Chasers. Photography: Aron Klein. Source

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“Kukeri is an ancient pagan ritual practiced annually across the Balkan mountain regions where local men wear carved wooden masks of beasts’ faces and hang heavy bells around their waists as they perform arcane dances,” says London-based photographer Aron Klein. The Kukeri Project is Aron’s magical and dreamlike series that consists of hypnotic images of large men in carnivalesque costumes, posing menacingly in the wintry Bulgarian mountains. 

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/aron-klein-bulgarian-demon-chasers-photography-090118

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CHER Met Gala, 1975

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[quetzalnoah]

“¿Nunca te ha pasado que quieres enamorarte? O sea, quieres tener una historia de amor, te enamoras de lo que podría suceder, ves el escenario cumpliendo sueños, haciendo cosas divertidas, pero no piensas mucho en la persona, te enamoras de la idea de enamorarte, de experimentar cada impulso que corre con vértigo ante la incertidumbre y la esperanza. Y te lanzas, sin diseccionar el tejido de lo implicado, como si la misma idealización pudiera arreglarlo todo, y no te das cuenta de ello hasta que concluyes la historia.”

— Teoría de la Fragilidad, Quetzal Noah

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The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)

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a tragedy

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The Ostromir Gospel, a masterpiece of the book art of Kievan Rus’, is an item of exceptional magnificence. It is the oldest East Slavic manuscript dated by its colophon, which also bears the name of a copyist. According to the Greek reckoning of biblical chronology, it was executed in 6564–6565 after Creation, i.e., in 1056–1057; it marks the first burgeoning of the early Christian state of Rus’ and the weight of the Byzantine inheritance in the genesis of its art. It was commissioned by Posadnik (governor) Ostromir (Prince Iziaslav’s powerful representative in Novgorod), whose influence extended throughout northwestern Rus’. The luxurious book he had copied and painted was intended for the recently built cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod, which must have given the manuscript the privileged status of a state emblem.“

From the page of the Louvre for the exhibition Holy Russia.

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The Bolshoi dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze being rehearsed by the 87-year old Galina Ulanova captured by photographer Mikhail Logvinov 

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“I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette). I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It is a return to the maternal source.” - Ana Mendieta

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Joseph Beuys. I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974. Photo documentation by Caroline Tisdall.

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Brief Crossing (Catherine Breillat, 2001)

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