Tag: skull

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

‘La femme avec le crâne’, 1925

František Drtikol (1883–1961) :: ‘La femme avec le crâne’, 1925. Credited and titled in the original negative, photographer’s studio stamp in the negative lower right (Drtikol – Prague Bromografia Poděbrady) and numbered “18”. | src OstLicht 22nd Photo Auction

Day of the Dead

José Guadalupe Posada :: Thought for Hallowe'en , published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Thought for Hallowe’en , published 1947, woodcut.
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José Guadalupe Posada :: Hallowe'en Imp, published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Hallowe’en Imp, published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

Día de los Muertos

José Guadalupe Posada :: All Hallow's Eve, published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: All Hallow’s Eve, published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Calavera of the Engraver, published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Calavera of the Engraver, published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

La Calavera Garbancera, ca. 1910

La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913). (*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural 'Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central' (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913).
(*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural ‘Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central’ (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913). (*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural 'Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central' (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913)

Die Blätter mit dem Tod, 1918

Die Blätter mit dem Tod (The Leaves with Death), cover title: Ein Totentanz by Alfred Kubin. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Book of 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only. First edition with the cover title "A Dance of Death". | src Bassenge Auktionen
Die Blätter mit dem Tod (The Leaves with Death), cover title: Ein Totentanz by Alfred Kubin. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Book of 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only. First edition with the cover title “A Dance of Death”. | src Bassenge Auktionen
Alfred Kubin :: Die Blätter mit dem Tod; [cover title]: Ein Totentanz. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Kubin's sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final vignette, in which which a gravestone bears the the artist's own name; the cover is an additional lithograph. Kubin was well known for his explorations of macabre and satirical subject matter. This interpretation of the "Dance of Death" appeared at a moment when four years of world war and a spreading influenza pandemic meant that virtually no-one was untouched by death. | src locus solus rare books
Alfred Kubin :: Die Blätter mit dem Tod; [cover title]: Ein Totentanz. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Kubin’s sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final vignette, in which which a gravestone bears the the artist’s own name; the cover is an additional lithograph. Kubin was well known for his explorations of macabre and satirical subject matter. This interpretation of the “Dance of Death” appeared at a moment when four years of world war and a spreading influenza pandemic meant that virtually no-one was untouched by death. | src locus solus rare books
Alfred Kubin :: Das Ballgespenst [The Ball Ghost], thirteenth plate in the book Ein Totentanz. Folio, 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only (Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918). | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Alfred Kubin :: Das Ballgespenst [The Ball Ghost], thirteenth plate in the book Ein Totentanz. Folio, 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only (Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918). | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Plakat zu dem Film Totentanz, 1919

Plakat zu dem Film Totentanz, Deutschland 1919, Regie: Otto Rippert, von Plakatkünstler Josef Fenneker. | Poster for the film Totentanz (Death Dance), Germany, 1919, directed by Otto Rippert, by poster artist Josef Fenneker. | src Deutsche Kinemathek

Courtney Crawford, ca. 1924

William Herbert Mortensen (1897 – 1965) :: Courtney Crawford with Masks, ca. 1924. | source monster brains
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William H. Mortensen (1897 – 1965) · Courtney Crawford with Masks, ca. 1924. | source lexiconmag
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