Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist.
International Necronautical Society
The International Necronautical Society is a semi-fictional organization closely modeled on European avant-gardes of the early 20th century. It replays, not without parody, the politically-inflected structures of these avant-gardes, with their manifestoes, committees, splinter groups and purges. At the same time the INS makes use of these structures to generate artistic projects that explore the relations between death and representation. The representation of physical death, as in obituaries and memorials, is only a starting point for the INS’s exploration of the ways that all representations inhabit a zone of conceptual death. Death is viewed by the INS as “a cipher for the outer limit of description, for the point at which the code breaks down”.
Chirimenbon
Chirimen-bon is a book made of crepe paper, usually illustrated with multi-colored woodblocks print and bound in Japanese style. Many of them were produced from the Meiji to early Showa era (latter half of the 19th century to first half of the 20th century).
Journal des dames et des modes
Journal des Dames et des Modes was a French fashion periodical published in the 1910s and illustrated by some of the finest illustrators of the Art Deco period.
Bottom’s Dream
Bottom's Dream is a novel published in 1970 by West German author Arno Schmidt. Schmidt began writing the novel in December 1963 while he and Hans Wollschläger began to translate the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German. The novel was inspired by James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. The gargantuan novel was published in folio format with 1334 pages. The story is told mostly in three shifting columns, presenting the text in the form of notes, collages, and typewritten pages.
Stacks
A stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, isolated by erosion.
Edouard Boubat
Édouard Boubat was a French photographer.
Doppio Borgato
Doppio Borgato is a double concert grand piano, joining a regular concert grand together with a second piano, activated by a pedal board with 37 pedals, similar to that of the organ. Designed and hand-crafted by Luigi Borgato, it was patented in 2000.
Pemmican
Pemmican is dried meat pounded into coarse powder and mixed with an equal amount of melted fat, and occasionally saskatoon berries or other edibles. It's the ultimate protein bar.
Andrzej Wróblewski
Andrzej Wróblewski was a Polish painter who died in a tragic mountaineering accident in 1957 when he was only 30. He is recognized by many as one of Poland's most prominent artists in the early post World War II era, creating an individualistic approach to figurative painting.