Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Aphrodite Delights, A talk by Yiannis Papadakis
Monday 21/12/2009 at 14.30
IASPIS, Christodoulos Panayiotou studio
Maria Skolgata 83
SE-118 53, Stockholm
Sweden
Introduction by Christodoulos Panayiotou
Yiannis Papadakis holds a doctorate in social anthropology from Cambridge University and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. He is author of Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), co-editor of Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History and an Island in Conflict (Indiana University Press, 2006), and editor of a 2006 special issue of Postcolonial Studies on Cyprus.
Photo: Aphrodite in the North Pole, 2009 Xmas Decorations at NK shopping center, Stockholm Sweden
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Christodoulos Panayiotou in conversation with Cecilia Widenheim at Södertörns University
Christodoulos Panayiotou (f. 1978 i Limassol, Cypern) har studerat antropologi samt dans och teater i Lyon och London. Han bor och arbetar i Berlin och är för närvarnade IASPIS-stipendiat i Stockholm.
Christodoulos arbetar huvudsakligen med olika former av performativ konst och utforskar i sitt konstnärskap de komplexa inbördes förhållandena mellan våra innersta och medfödda önskningar och deras kulturella konstruktioner och tolkningar.
Inom ramen för Konstklubbens pågående projekt med presentationer av olika samtida konstnärer har Christodoulos Panayiotou valt att interagera med den dagliga verksamheten vid Södertörns högskola. Under vecka 50 presenteras ljudkonstverket Judy Garland: A Biography som en del av föreläsningarna vid institutionerna för etnologi, estetik, konstvetenskap samt mediavetenskap.
Curator: Antonios Bogadakis
Fredag den 18:e december är alla välkomna till ett öppet samtal mellan Christodoulos Panayiotou och Cecilia Widenheim, direktör för IASPIS.
Plats: Södertörns högskola, Moas Båge, rum MB505
Tid: 15:30-17:30
Vi bjuder på dryck och tilltugg
Christodoulos Panayiotou was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1978. He studied performing arts and anthropology in Lyon and London. He lives and works in Berlin and he is currently a resident artist at IASPIS. Christodoulos’ work engages with the warmth and sophistication of simple gestures that create unexpected situations upon which the spectator is called to critically unsettle the homogenizing power of the contemporary cultural production (of its gestures, iconography, sounds etc). His raw materials are basically those images and cultural settings that signify our relation to this production and to ourselves. Bringing forth a concatenation of concepts‚ Panayiotou unsettles the trivial orthodoxies and certainties of our everyday life by stressing their ambivalence and by extending their economy to the point that they reveal a cruel but often poetic perspective.
In the framework of Konstklubben’s solo artistic presentations at Södertörn University College‚ Panayiotou wants to interact with the institution by incorporating the sound work “Judy Garland: A Biography”in its daily schedule of lectures and seminars. That way the work can function only as part of a peculiar production of space both reducible to its own drama and applicable to a generative process against the dominant background of the institution that hosts it.
The work will be presented as part of the university lectures (ethnology, aesthetics, art history, media studies) that will all be given within a week.
Curator: Antonios Bogadakis
On Friday the 18th December everybody is welcome to attend a conversation between Christodoulos Panayiotou and Cecilia Widenheim (director of IASPIS).
Place: Södertörns högskola, Moas Båge, Rum MB 505
Time: 15:30 – 17:30
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The poetic diorama of the Biological Museum of Stockholm, with backgrounds created by Bruno Liljefors. Sunday nordic safari with Mats.
"The Biological Museum is situated at Djurgården. It was built in 1893 to a design by architect Agi Lindegren who was inspired by the medieval Norwegian stave churches. The founder of the museum, Gustaf Kolthoff was a taxidermist, an amateur zoologist and an author. The pioneering educational aspect of the museum was the use of the diorama for the first time on a grand scale in order to present the natural habitat. The perspective of the diorama unites foreground and background. The large, painted backgrounds are the work of Bruno Liljefors who is famous for his dramatic paintings of birds and animals.
The museum contains collections of Scandinavian mammals and birds in their natural, ecological habitat. The vast diorama, which can be viewed from two levels, presents the different types of landscape from inland Sweden as well as from the coast. On the ground floor there are two smaller dioramas showing Spetsbergen (a cave from the Arctic Ocean) and a valley on eastern Greenland."
Official Website: here
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Bits and Pieces - Missing bodies, missing parts
Queen Anne Boleyn (1507 - 1536)
"It is quite amazing how many parts of the body belonging to famous people in history, somehow become separated from the body itself and turn up again, many years or even centuries later. After Queen Anne Boleyn was beheaded in 1536 on the orders of her husband, King Henry VIII, her heart was stolen and secretly hidden in a church near Thetford, Suffolk. Her heart was re-discovered in 1836 and re-buried under the church organ where it remains still."
Source: here
King Charles I (1600 - 1649)
"King Charles I was beheaded in 1649 and buried at Windsor Castle in the same vault as Henry VIII. The coffin was opened in 1813 and Sir Henry Halford, the royal surgeon, performed an autopsy on the body. He secretly stole Charles' fourth cervical vertebra and for the next 30 years he loved to shock his friends at dinner parties by using the vertebra as a salt-holder.
Queen Victoria, hearing of this, demanded that the bone was returned to Charles' coffin immediately. It was!"
Louis XIV of France ( 1638- 1715)
"During the French Revolution the tomb of the French king was wrecked and plundered. His heart was stolen and sold to Lord Harcourt who later sold it to the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend William Buckland. One night at dinner, the Dean, who liked to experiment with food, ate the embalmed heart!"
Ben Johnson ( 1573 - 1637)
"Ben Johnson, the English dramatist, was buried standing up in Westminster Abbey, but in 1849 his grave was disturbed during a later internment. The Dean of Westminster, William Buckland ( see Louis XIV above), stole Johnson's heel-bone but it later disappeared and was not found again until 1938 when the bone reappeared in an old furniture shop!"
Bodynapping Italian-Style
"The coffin and body of a 92-year old man was stolen from the family crypt on the shores of Lago Maggiore by persons unknown. The deed was discovered in mid-March by a family caretaker assigned to place fresh flowers on the grave each Sunday. The deceased was Italy?s most famous banker, a cagey Sicilian dead since last June; the body had been laid to rest in the mausoleum beneath that of his wife, Idea Socialista. Speculation has followed that extortion is the goal of the theft although no ransom has yet been demanded. In the past, the Mafia has been known to ransom stolen corpses. A prominent corporate leader has declared, "There is no limit to evil in Italy."
Source: here
Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
"The world famous composer, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) had his head stolen."
"Haydn's head was indeed stolen shortly after his burial in 1809. It was stolen by some students who were interested in the science of phrenology, which is the study of skulls. It was all the rage in the 19th century. People believed intelligence was related to skull shape. After ping through a series of owners it was reunited with it's body in the 1950's. The full story of this and Mozart's skull can be found in a book called "After the Funeral -The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses" by Edwin A. Murphy. Mozart's skull, despite forensic testing, has not been conclusively identified with as belonging to the composer."
Source: here and here
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
"Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) famed scientist, theologian, educator, and mystic, spent nearly all of his 84 years in his native Sweden. But he died away from home on 29 March 1772 and was buried at the St.George of the East Church in London.
In 1908, the Swedish government sought to have Swedenborg's body reburied in the great cathedral in Uppsala. When his body was exhumed, it was discovered that his head was missing. An investigation revealed that Swedenborg's skull was stolen some 50 years after his death by a retired ship captain and amateur phrenologist."
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)
"Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was the most famous Spanish painter of his day and arguably one of the finest painters who ever lived.
Goya spent nearly his entire life in his native Spain. He died on 16 April 1828 at age 82 during a brief stay in France. He was buried in the cemetery of Chartreuse in Bordeaux.
In 1899, the Spanish government obtained permission to transfer Goya's remains to Madrid for reburial with great fanfare at the Church of San Antonio de la Florida. The site was well chosen. Goya had painted the Church's beautiful frescoes a century before.
But when authorities opened his grave in Bordeaux, to the shock of all, it was discovered there was not just one, but two skeletons inside. What was worse, there was only one skull. Decomposition was such that there was no way of telling with certainty if the skull belonged to one body or the other."
Santa Clauls (St. Nicolas)
"The legend of Santa Claus has its origins in the stories surrounding St. Nicholas, a 4th century bishop who became a saint of the Catholic Church. After his death, he was buried near his church at Myra and his grave served as a shrine for centuries. In 1087 his remains were stolen and taken to Bari, Italy, where they became enshrined, boosting Bari's popularity as a site for pilgrimage."
Church plea over woman's remains
"A senior Church official has appealed for the return of a woman's remains stolen from her grave during a campaign by animal rights activists. Gladys Hammond, 82, was related to the owners of Darley Oaks Farm, who said last week they would stop breeding guinea pigs for medical research. Her remains were taken from a grave in nearby Yoxall, Staffs, in October."
"Mrs Hammond's body was taken from her grave in St Peter's churchyard in Yoxall on 6 or 7 October 2004, seven years after she was buried there."
Source: here
Oliver Cromwell and Exhimation Celebration
"England's long history of being ruled by monarchs was brieflyinterrupted in the 17th century, when Puritan military hero Oliver Cromwel ruled over a fledgling republic. It was a republic in name only, and Cromwell ruled briefly as a dictator, called the Lord Protector, from 1653 until his death in 1658. A few years after his death, the country had returned to a monarchy and King Charles II ruled. Cromwell's body was removed from its burial place at Westminster Abbey and descrated. His head was severed and stuck on a pole, where it stayed for twenty years -- a potent warning against dissidents. His head was eventually recovered and reburied in 1960, but nobody knows what happened to the rest of his body."
Source: here
Thomas Paine (1737 -1809)
"Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, died penniless in 1809 and nobody much cared. Except Englishman William Cobbett, who dug up and swiped Paine's remains ten years later, hoping to smuggle them to England. His goal was to build a shrine and rebury his hero. Unfortunately, the remains were somehow lost along the way."
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1824 - 1863)
"American Civil War general Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was not exhumed, but his left arm was. General Jackson was one of the most brilliant officers on the side of the Confederates, a former professor of artillery tactics at Virginia Military Institute and a distinguished veteran of the U. S. - Mexican War. Jackson was seriously wounded by his own men as he returned from the battlefield at Chancellorville, Virginia. His left arm was shot up and had to be amputated. The arm was spirited away by someone and buried in a nondescript grave near the site of the battle. Jackson was taken to a safer place to recuperate, but died eight days later and was taken to Lexington to be buried. In 1929 the arm was exhumed, placed in a small
box (it had been wrapped in cloth) and reburied at the Ellwood Family Cemetery near Spotsylvania."
Francesco Petrarch (1304 - 1374)
"An Italian analysis of what is thought to be the skeleton of poet Francesco Petrarch, father of the sonnet, revealed his skull was replaced by a woman's."
"Marin has determined that while the body in Petrarch's coffin is most likely the poet's, the skull - which is broken into several pieces - belonged to a female and could not be his.
"This must have been robbery," Marin said. "It is not, frankly, a nice business." Petrarch, upon whose poems Shakespeare later based his famous sonnets, is revered in Italy and is set to be celebrated this year on the 700th anniversary of his birth.
His coffin is known to have been opened twice before Marin looked inside this year. In 1630 a drunken friar and four accomplices broke in through a corner of the tomb and stole some of the poet's bones -- but are not thought to have taken his skull."
Laoshan
"Nothing has been found inside the coffin's inner chamber at the Laoshan tomb in Beijing. Archaeologists found only decorative patterns of silk fabrics when the outer chamber of the ancient tomb was opened Sunday.
A senior archaeologist said thieves had stolen everything in the coffin. It took archeologists half a day today to open the lid of the coffin inside the tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.).
The tomb was accidentally found early this year. Archeological excavations have continued since then. The 12-meter-tall tomb occupies an area half the size of a football field.
Wang Wuyu, who is in charge of the excavation, said some of the unearthed objects from the Laoshan tomb indicate that the tomb occupant was a king of the Yan Kingdom."
Sources: here and here
Attempt to steal Lincoln's body
Thieves caught in the act after having the coffin partially out of the sarcophagus
Source: here
google answers
Source: here and here
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
"Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) famed scientist, theologian, educator, and mystic, spent nearly all of his 84 years in his native Sweden. But he died away from home on 29 March 1772 and was buried at the St.George of the East Church in London.
In 1908, the Swedish government sought to have Swedenborg's body reburied in the great cathedral in Uppsala. When his body was exhumed, it was discovered that his head was missing. An investigation revealed that Swedenborg's skull was stolen some 50 years after his death by a retired ship captain and amateur phrenologist."
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)
"Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was the most famous Spanish painter of his day and arguably one of the finest painters who ever lived.
Goya spent nearly his entire life in his native Spain. He died on 16 April 1828 at age 82 during a brief stay in France. He was buried in the cemetery of Chartreuse in Bordeaux.
In 1899, the Spanish government obtained permission to transfer Goya's remains to Madrid for reburial with great fanfare at the Church of San Antonio de la Florida. The site was well chosen. Goya had painted the Church's beautiful frescoes a century before.
But when authorities opened his grave in Bordeaux, to the shock of all, it was discovered there was not just one, but two skeletons inside. What was worse, there was only one skull. Decomposition was such that there was no way of telling with certainty if the skull belonged to one body or the other."
Santa Clauls (St. Nicolas)
"The legend of Santa Claus has its origins in the stories surrounding St. Nicholas, a 4th century bishop who became a saint of the Catholic Church. After his death, he was buried near his church at Myra and his grave served as a shrine for centuries. In 1087 his remains were stolen and taken to Bari, Italy, where they became enshrined, boosting Bari's popularity as a site for pilgrimage."
Church plea over woman's remains
"A senior Church official has appealed for the return of a woman's remains stolen from her grave during a campaign by animal rights activists. Gladys Hammond, 82, was related to the owners of Darley Oaks Farm, who said last week they would stop breeding guinea pigs for medical research. Her remains were taken from a grave in nearby Yoxall, Staffs, in October."
"Mrs Hammond's body was taken from her grave in St Peter's churchyard in Yoxall on 6 or 7 October 2004, seven years after she was buried there."
Source: here
Oliver Cromwell and Exhimation Celebration
"England's long history of being ruled by monarchs was brieflyinterrupted in the 17th century, when Puritan military hero Oliver Cromwel ruled over a fledgling republic. It was a republic in name only, and Cromwell ruled briefly as a dictator, called the Lord Protector, from 1653 until his death in 1658. A few years after his death, the country had returned to a monarchy and King Charles II ruled. Cromwell's body was removed from its burial place at Westminster Abbey and descrated. His head was severed and stuck on a pole, where it stayed for twenty years -- a potent warning against dissidents. His head was eventually recovered and reburied in 1960, but nobody knows what happened to the rest of his body."
Source: here
Thomas Paine (1737 -1809)
"Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, died penniless in 1809 and nobody much cared. Except Englishman William Cobbett, who dug up and swiped Paine's remains ten years later, hoping to smuggle them to England. His goal was to build a shrine and rebury his hero. Unfortunately, the remains were somehow lost along the way."
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1824 - 1863)
"American Civil War general Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was not exhumed, but his left arm was. General Jackson was one of the most brilliant officers on the side of the Confederates, a former professor of artillery tactics at Virginia Military Institute and a distinguished veteran of the U. S. - Mexican War. Jackson was seriously wounded by his own men as he returned from the battlefield at Chancellorville, Virginia. His left arm was shot up and had to be amputated. The arm was spirited away by someone and buried in a nondescript grave near the site of the battle. Jackson was taken to a safer place to recuperate, but died eight days later and was taken to Lexington to be buried. In 1929 the arm was exhumed, placed in a small
box (it had been wrapped in cloth) and reburied at the Ellwood Family Cemetery near Spotsylvania."
Francesco Petrarch (1304 - 1374)
"An Italian analysis of what is thought to be the skeleton of poet Francesco Petrarch, father of the sonnet, revealed his skull was replaced by a woman's."
"Marin has determined that while the body in Petrarch's coffin is most likely the poet's, the skull - which is broken into several pieces - belonged to a female and could not be his.
"This must have been robbery," Marin said. "It is not, frankly, a nice business." Petrarch, upon whose poems Shakespeare later based his famous sonnets, is revered in Italy and is set to be celebrated this year on the 700th anniversary of his birth.
His coffin is known to have been opened twice before Marin looked inside this year. In 1630 a drunken friar and four accomplices broke in through a corner of the tomb and stole some of the poet's bones -- but are not thought to have taken his skull."
Laoshan
"Nothing has been found inside the coffin's inner chamber at the Laoshan tomb in Beijing. Archaeologists found only decorative patterns of silk fabrics when the outer chamber of the ancient tomb was opened Sunday.
A senior archaeologist said thieves had stolen everything in the coffin. It took archeologists half a day today to open the lid of the coffin inside the tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.).
The tomb was accidentally found early this year. Archeological excavations have continued since then. The 12-meter-tall tomb occupies an area half the size of a football field.
Wang Wuyu, who is in charge of the excavation, said some of the unearthed objects from the Laoshan tomb indicate that the tomb occupant was a king of the Yan Kingdom."
Sources: here and here
Attempt to steal Lincoln's body
Thieves caught in the act after having the coffin partially out of the sarcophagus
Source: here
google answers
Friday, December 11, 2009
Evita Peron's body stolen in 1955
"Evita Peron died July 26, 1952, of uterine cancer in Buenos Aires. Her body was stolen by anti-Peronistas in 1955 and hidden in Italy until 1971. In 1974, Evita's remains were returned to Argentina for burial in the presidential crypt. But two years following that, they were transferred to lie beneath several protective layers of steel in the Duarte family's tomb, at Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires."
"In 1955, Evita's corpse disappeared, stolen by the military after they had deposed Juan Peron. It was carried to Germany and then Italy, where it was interred for 16 years under another name. After negotiations, it was finally returned to her husband in Spain."
Source: www.celebritymorgue.com and www.travelsur.net
Charlie Chaplin's body buried under two meters of concrete
"Chaplin's robust health began to slowly fail in the late 1960s, after the completion of his final film A Countess from Hong Kong, and more rapidly after he received his Academy Award in 1972. By 1977 he had difficulty communicating, and began using a wheelchair. He died in his sleep in Vevey, Switzerland on Christmas Day 1977. He was interred in Corsier-Sur-Vevey Cemetery, Vaud, Switzerland. On 1 March 1978, his corpse was stolen by a small group of Swiss mechanics in an attempt to extort money from his family. The plot failed, the robbers were captured, and the corpse was recovered eleven weeks later near Lake Geneva. His body was reburied under two metres of concrete to prevent further attempts."
Source: www.wikipedia.com
Thieves stole the corpse of former Cyprus president Tassos Papadopoulos
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Thieves opened the grave of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos during the night and stole his corpse in a crime that shocked the Mediterranean island.
State television interrupted its normal programming through the morning to bring live reports and reaction to the desecration.
The official Cyprus News Agency said the open grave had been discovered by a member of Papadopoulos's guard, who lights a vigil candle in the cemetery in Deftera, just outside the capital, every morning.
On hearing the news, Papadopoulos's family went to the cemetery, which has been cordoned off by police.
Police chief Michalis Papageorgiou, assistant police chief Andreas Iatropoulos and Nicosia police director Kypros Michaelides were all at the grave to oversee the investigation.
The crime came the day before a memorial service was due to be held to mark the first anniversary of Papadopoulos's death. Sources cited by CNA said the service at the church of Saint Nicholas in Deftera was still expected to go ahead.
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The current leader of Papadopoulos's centre-right DIKO party, Marios Garoyan, condemned what he called a "heinous and terrible crime''.
Andros Kyprianou, head of the communist AKEL party that leads the island's government, expressed outrage.
"I don't know what kind of people would create such a terrible crime and steal a corpse,'' he said. "There's nothing for me to say.''
There was no immediate comment from the family of Papadopoulous, whose son Nicholas is himself a prominent politician.
Papadopoulos served as president from 2003 to 2008 and led Greek Cypriots in rejecting a UN plan to reunify the divided island in a 2004 referendum.
Turkish Cypriots backed the plan in a simultaneous vote, but the plan failed and a divided island joined the European Union the same year.
Papadopolous was defeated in the February 2008 election by the AKEL candidate, current President Demetris Christofias. A lifelong heavy smoker, he died of lung cancer at the age of 74 later the same year.
Hundreds of mourners attended his funeral in December 2008, including then Greek prime minister Costas Karamanlis and foreign minister Dora Bakoyianni.
"Tassos Papadopoulos has been a prominent figure of the Greeks of Cyprus, whom he served with passion and devotion. Our cooperation was excellent,'' Karamanlis said in his message of condolence.
Christofias paid tribute to his longtime political sparring partner as a man of principle. ``He never hesitated to express his views, irrespective of what public opinion and the majority supported,'' he said.
As a young man, Papadopoulos was a key member of the political wing of the EOKA guerrilla group which fought to end British colonial rule when the dream of union with Greece was thwarted.
He voted against the Zurich-London agreement which paved the way for independence but nevertheless served as one of four representatives of the Greek Cypriot side who drafted the island's post-independence constitution.
In his mid-20s he became the government's youngest minister, under the wing of his mentor Archbishop Makarios who was president from independence in 1960 until his death in 1977.
Papadopoulos held cabinet posts for 12 years as minister of interior, finance, labour, health and agriculture, and also served as the interlocutor in bicommunal talks with the Turkish Cypriots in 1976.
Source: www.heraldsun.com
Photo: Tassos Papadopoulos at Archbishop Makarios Funeral
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The "old wooden horsey" from Walter Benjamin's collection of russian toys
Walter Benjamin’s Archive © (Verso, 2007).
The card caption reads: “Old wooden horsey from the governorate of Vladimir.”
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Extract from Walter Benjamin's correspondence
"The scruples, sometimes disturbing even to me, with which I view the plan of some sort of "collected Works" correspond to the archival precision with which I preserve and catalog everything of mine that has appeared in print. Furthermore, disregarding the economic side of being a writer, I can say that for me the few journals and small newspapers in which my work appears represent for me the anarchic structure of a private publishing house. The main objective of my promotional strategy, therefore, is to get everything I write - except some diary entries - into print at all costs and I can say that I have been successful in this - Knock on wood! - for about four or five years"
Monday, December 7, 2009
Serge Gaisbourg bought "La Marseillaise"
Serge Gainsbourg recorded in 1978, in Jamaica, a reggae version of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise". This song earned him death threats in France and a very critical article by the writer and member of the French Academy Michel Droit, to which Gaibsbourg responded with another article titled "On n'a pas le con d'être aussi Droit". Shortly afterwards, Gainsbourg bought the original manuscript of "La Marseillaise" at an auction at Versailles.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Tentacles at the exhibition "Secrete Images (The Japanese Erotic Prints)" - Museum Picasso
"As a result of descriptions and commentates by influential writers and critics who were also champions of japanese art, such as Edmond de Goncourt, Philippe Burty, Joris-Karl Huysmans and Gustave Coquiot, erotic scenes featuring a woman diver and an octopus had a major impact in artistic and literary circles at the end of the 19th century. The Erotic iconography of Hokusai's print (The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife) inspired different versions and interpretations accortinf to the artistic fashions of the time, by artists such as Rodin, Rops and Picasso"
"To date, only part of Toulouse- Lautrec's collection of japanese erotic prints and drawings is known to us, thanks to a collection of 20 photographs which were catalogues by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with the inscriptio' Estampes japonaises érotiques ayant appartenu à Toulouse-Lautrec. The works shown (...) include a version of this Hokusai's print"
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