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George Bacovia – On Art
Gheorghe Vasiliu was a Romanian poet who named himself George Bacovia after his native town Bacău. Bacovia was born there in 1881 and distinguished himself as a talented draughtsman, violinist and poet while being educated at the Prince Ferdinand Gymnasium, now located at George...
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Julien Blaine – Extravagant Circus of the Mouth
French artist and poet Julien Blaine was born as Christian Poitevin in Rognac in 1942. Already at the age of twenty he published his first poetry magazine Les Carnets de l'Octéor and turned to action poetry with his piece Rep éléphant 306, in which he interviewed a circus elephant, two...
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tapetopia releases Happy Straps – Pleasure 1985-86
tapetopia tapetopia releases: Happy Straps - Pleasure 1985-86 Happy Straps was deeply rooted in East Berlin's alternative scene in the mid 1980s. Café Mosaik was a hotbed of the bohemian scene in Prenzlauer Berg, where dreamers, freaks and artists would meet - ‘negative...
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Ed van der Elsken – Eye Love You
Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was born in Amsterdam, where he was trained as a stonecutter and sculptor until 1944. Inspired by the photojournalistic Picture Post and Weegee’s Naked City he shifted his interest from sculpting to photography in the late 1940s. When he tried his luck...