étant donnée // l'origine du monde

decrepitude

In 1865 Baudelaire writes to Manet, in an ambiguous compliment, that he is the first in the‘decrepitude’ of his art.

Charles Baudelaire, Correspondance, Paris 1973, vol. 2, p. 497.

The quality or condition of being weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.

All space is already occupied by the enemy

Gustave Courbet is one of the leaders of the Commune. He instigates the demolition of Napoleon's statue in the Place de Vendome because it is a symbol of militarism and imperialism. He writes I get up, I eat breakfast, I sit down and preside for 12 hours a day, my head begins to feel like a baked apple. But despite all this unaccustomed turmoil of the head and brain, I’m in a state of enchantment. Paris est un vrai paradis. The poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud are also involved. In the last days of the Commune, Edward Manet draws heartbreaking pictures of the Communards slaughtered at the barricades by the French Army


http://marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/index.htm

May 16th 1871 /// to demolish the Vendôme Column

Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism

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http://www.ccwgraduateschool.org/a-conversation-between-michael-asbury-and-sean-lynch/

women and parrots IV

Tantalisingly, other sections of the painting may still be at large, including one in which the model’s hand holds a fluttering parakeet, a symbol of eroticism.

women / parrots // 1866

The Painter's Studio; A Real Allegory