I find this whole milieu fascinating. We're watching the beginnings of modernism spring out of a circle of individualist anarchists aligned with some of the first feminists. The Mecislas Golberg commentary on Rouveyre mentioned by Ciolkowska ended up having a significant influence on Matisse.
This strikes me as fairly standard fin de siècle-adjacent self-conscious decadence. It apparently struck the chord it was aiming to strike.
Personally I question whether any of us realize the horror of our work...
Here we are staining perfectly good silence and nothingness, as per Beckett. It's best not to think about it.
You'd better believe too many people don't.
Not sure why this kind of thing would ever merit mention, much less discussion. What am I missing, please?
I find this whole milieu fascinating. We're watching the beginnings of modernism spring out of a circle of individualist anarchists aligned with some of the first feminists. The Mecislas Golberg commentary on Rouveyre mentioned by Ciolkowska ended up having a significant influence on Matisse.
The minute I saw this I thought of Aubrey Beardsley, who wasn't even French.