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Archives of Khazad-Dum: Louis Boulanger - La Ronde du Sabbat

I've often noted the similarities of the Jeunes-France Bouzingo of the 1830s and the sensibilities of contemporary metal. Here's undeniable proof: a blog with FOURTEEN black metal and death metal albums all using the Jeunes-France artist Louis Boulanger's frenetic romanticist masterpiece "Ronde du Sabbat" for the cover art. I have NEVER seen it reproduced in any art book except the single monograph on Boulanger, from 1924. Hmmmm.



Archives of Khazad-Dum: Louis Boulanger - La Ronde du Sabbat: Original Louis Boulanger - La Ronde du Sabbat Vociferian - Exxakschionnistiik Warmageddon Xzul Stutthof - And Cosmos From Ashes ...

Lecture: A Social History of the Avant-Garde

On July 4 at the AfterMAF festival in Roanoke, VA, I delivered a lecture on the 19th Century Avant-Garde, focusing on the social history, rather than the aesthetic – an anthropological and micro-historical rather than "art/literary history" approach. Here's the video of the presentation. I only got through the Symbolists in the lecture that day, but I'm posting here the lecture notes carrying the story all the way up to the present, and the corresponding slides for the notes, which contain much more detailed information.

I've not had time to assemble a bibliography specific to this lecture, but to trace a bit of information or do follow-up research on your own, email me at olindsann@gmail.com (messages sent via the blog have a tendency not to reach me for months) and I can point you toward relevant sources and/or my bibliographies of related projects. This may eventually become a book, but that would be several years down the road.

Here's the video of the lecture up to the end of the 19th Century (Romanticism through Symbolism & Decadence):

Here are the LECTURE NOTES for the entire history.

Here the accompanying SLIDES including images, charts, and more detailed information referred to in the lecture.

Gérard de Nerval, "Fantasy"

Fantasy

There is a tune for which I’d freely trade
All Rossini, all Mozart and all Weber,[1]
Archaic tune, faded fast and sepulchral
Which for me alone offers secret allure.

Now, each time that I happen to hear it,
Two centuries my spirit revives;
Tis under Louis Thirteenth; I envision outspread
A verdant slope, which the sunset ambers.

Then a brick-built manor with stony corners,
With stained-glass windows of roseate colours,
Girt in vast parks, a rivulet there
Rinsing its feet, which slides among flowers;

Then a lady, at her lofty window,
Blond with darkling eyes, her apparel antique,
Whom, in another existence perchance,
I’ve seen before . . . – of whom I remind myself!

NOTE
[1] Pronounce it “Webure”.

(Nerval’s original footnote instructed the reader to pronounce it as “Webre”, to rhyme with “funèbre”, sepulchral. This is as close as I could come to reproducing the joke in a free verse translation.)