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La Baionnette, Mermaids, 29th March 1917 by Georges Barbier
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La Baionnette, Mermaids, 29th March 1917 by Georges Barbier
L'art en 1916 - Mon cher maitre, je ne me troube pas ressemblente du tout. - C'est la guerre !...
Art in 1916 - My dear master, I do not find myself similar at all. - It is the war! -- Lucien Métivet (1863-1932), La Baionnette (The Bayonet; French comic), 1916
From La Baïonnette (The Bayonet), a French art nouveau magazine published during the war for the benefit and humor of the soldiers. August 1915.
La Baionnette No. 44/ Les Bleuets
Paul Iribe, cartoon in the French magazine La Baïonnette, 1917.
“I have you, my captain, you won’t fall.”
“Yes, old man.”
You don’t expect -- or anyway I don’t expect -- to see this kind of foreshortened action montage in cartooning so far before Kirby. The geometric shapes of explosions and shrapnel or bullet trajectories are practically Futurist; and you could relate the flat, anti-naturalistic coloring to Fauvism, but Japonisme via poster art is probably truer. In any case, US cartooning representations of World War I were far less I guess architectural.
Gerda Wegener from LA BAIONNETTE 1919
COILHOUSE: the world’s first male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, and the 1950s pulp novel that brought it all to light... artist couple Gerda and Einar Wegener...
Their story was forgotten until the second half of the last century until Lili Elbe’s memoir, “Man Into Woman,” was republished in the 50s as a pulp paperback with a sensationalistic cover. Author Jan Morris and tennis player Renee Richards both credit the book for inspiring them to transition. In their autobiographies, both women recount the magic moment in which pulled the dusty book off the shelf at a bookstore, and how much it meant to them.
Gerda, for her part, was rediscovered more than 40 years after her death, when some of her erotic watercolor paintings turned up at a Copenhagen junk shop in 1984. Although her work remains relatively obscure, it’s possible to find scans of many of her illustrations online.