poisonesque: February 2011

Westinghouse Electric, 1922

Westinghouse Electric, 1922, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Click image for 1500 x 2002 size. Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".

Theo Matejko, Palais der Friedrichstadt, 1920

Palais der Friedrichstadt,T. D.Narbia´s songs and dances (1920), originally uploaded by Susanlenox.

Theo Matejko (Austria 1893-1946)

Il n'y a pas que toi robo qui trouve des merveilles dans les poubelles belges. A Paris aussi les gens se débarrassent de quelques merveilles. La preuve avec ces quelques photos de Marisa tirées du numéro de Ciné Revue Photos de juillet 1980...

The Eden Washer, 1920

The Eden Washer, 1920, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Click image for 572 x 871 size. Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".

The Big Parade, 1925

The Big Parade, 1925, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Click image for 710 x 872 size. Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".

Standard Plumbing Fixtures, 1924

Standard Plumbing Fixtures, 1924, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Click image for 800 x 1067 size. Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".

Slidetite Garage Doors, 1929

Slidetite Garage Doors, 1929, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Click image for 670 x 869 size. Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".

Seller's Kitchen Cabinets, 1920

Seller's Kitchen Cabinets, 1920, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Click image for 1228 x 1838 size. Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".

Jacques Floret

Jacques Floret aime dessiner du sexe et autre chose
Jacques Floret travaille expose depuis 1993
Jacques Floret joue avec les stylos à billes 4 couleurs
Jacques Floret et Topor me plaisent beaucoup
Il semblerait que Jacques Floret soit fasciné par les femmes et les chiens comme Slocombe par les femmes plâtrées, mais peut-être moins
Jacques Floret auto-censure graphique
Jacques Floret aime marcher dans les rues et chercher les carrefours étranges
Jacques Floret barbe lunettes Barb Wire
Defloré le Jacques Floret
Jacques Floret pochettes musique livres
Jacques Floret A.P.C, Agnès B., Technikart, Pif Paf Records
Jacques Floret bel été Nonne d'Irancy derrière la salle de bain
Jacques Floret Point Ephémère février vite
Jacques Floret effleuré au fleuret chien caca nonne Jean Boullet
Le youki le youki
Viva Jacques Floret!

Jupp Wiertz, In the new season women's clothing Gerngross, c.1930

In the new season women's clothing Gerngross (c.1930), originally uploaded by Susanlenox.

Jupp Wiertz (Germany 1888-1939).

I say swallow !

Les toilettes de certains bars parisiens s'avèrent certaines nuits être de véritables Carrefours Etranges... En témoigne ce minuscule flyer :

Pioneer Suspenders, 1929

Pioneer Suspenders, 1929, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Click image for 687 x 873 size. Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".

Parr-Kerry Overcoats, 1922

Parr-Kerry Overcoats, 1922, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Click image for 800 x 1043 size. Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 20s".

Buffon's Beasts

The plates below are from a 1753 work called 'Collection des Animaux Quadrupèdes' which forms part of an enormous 36-volume series ('Histoire Naturelle') issued over a forty year period by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

[Click through for larger versions of these moderate-to-heavily stylised hand-coloured quadruped engravings. The illustrations are slightly cropped from the full-page layout and some of the background spotting has been reduced. Mouse over for best guessed animal title. Let me know if you disagree or have a better idea. I'll probably upload a bunch more to the set on flickr during the coming week.]

"No single naturalist of the 1700s epitomizes the revolutionary changes that the Enlightenment brought to the study of nature more than Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788). In the 1600s most naturalists believed the world was a few thousand years old and that species were created separately and organized into an unchanging hierarchy, with humans positioned just below the angels. In the 1800s, Darwin described a world that was inconceivably old, one in which life gradually changed from one form to another without any need for direct supernatural intervention. Roughly midway between those two views—both chronologically and intellectually—was the remarkable Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon.

Buffon’s career centered on a single enormous project: an encyclopedia he called Histoire Naturelle, which he planned to contain everything known in his day about the natural world. (Buffon only managed to publish 36 out of his projected 50 volumes before he died.) To create it, he was able to draw on his own astonishing expertise, which ranged from astronomy to botany, as well as the knowledge of experts he consulted. But in writing his encyclopedia he did not merely parrot the opinions of others. Instead, he tried to explain all of the facts he amassed with overarching theories about the planet and its inhabitants." [source]

'Collection des Animaux Quadrupèdes' is available from the magnificent University of Strasbourg digital science collection. Their full-sized image files are very large and there are more than three hundred plates in this quadruped volume alone.
The Buffon Project (en Français) -- [Translation]
I think the University of Kyoto digital set of 'Histoire Naturelle' is complete.
'Buffon: A Life in Natural History' by Jacques Roger (Trans. SL Bonnefoi) 1997.
Bio: NNDB, L&C, Wiki.
Previously: The Concept of Mammals, The Beasts Rise, Unicorns and Other Wild Beasts & Johnston's Beasts Part II, Eye Spy (parts), Bestiarius, The Singular Thevet, Animalium Quadrupedum.

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