Chelsea Arts Club Ball

Prior to the New Year’s Eve Chelsea Arts Ball (to be held at the Albert Hall), students from the Chelsea polytechnic carry an inflatable rocket airship during a full dress rehearsal, 1931. Soibelman Syndicate. | src Getty Images

Opium (1919)

Opium, Robert Reinert, Germany, 1919. (Theo Matyko ’19) “This 1919 silent film was released during a lull in censorship restrictions after the first world war. Crowds lined up around the block for weeks to see its celebration of decadence and sexual liberty. The rare original poster is six feet tall.” | src The Guardian

La Syphilis (1910s)

Louis Raemaekers :: L’Hecatombe. La Syphilis. “An image meant to warn Belgian soldiers returning from the front of the dangers of ‘The French Pox’. It depicts a dangerous woman standing both seductively and menacingly in front of a field of graves.” | src The Guardian

Der Spiegel, 1907

Vassily Kandinsky :: Der Spiegel. The mirror; draped female figure holding up hand-mirror, 1907. Colour linocut, printed in mauve-red, green, blue, yellow and black, on oriental paper. | src The British Museum | Bibliographic references Roethel 1970 / Kandinsky, das graphische Werk (49)