lust, sex, death & art
As in Freud, the sex instinct is amoral and egotistical. In Juliette (1797), answering Rousseau’s Julie, Sade says of lust, “It demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.” Sex is power.
...read Camille Paglia : Sexual Personae ⇒
What is it that thou wouldst have in a silver charger, O sweet and fair Salome, thou that are fairer than all the daughters of Judaea? What wouldst thou have them bring thee in a silver charger?
...read Salomé & the Dance of the Seven Veils ⇒
Fuseli conjures up a terrifying image filled with mystery and panic, yet with vague and disturbing familiarity; suggesting how the woman feels in the grip of a demonic nightmare, not what she sees.
...read Nachtmahr : John Henry Fuseli ⇒
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
...read Only Lovers Left Alive ⇒
“Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed…”
– Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell 1873
Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not only one of the preeminent film renditions of the novel by Bram Stoker but, a sensual visual experience as well.
...read Bram Stoker’s Dracula ⇒