Moloch, Souvenirs macabres (Macabre memories) from L’Éclipse. 1871 [precise date unknown]. Paris.
The ironic love of the macabre provided a shared space of the avant-garde and large portions of pop culture throughout the 19th Century, from the Frenetic Romanticism of early in the century through the Bohemian cartoonist Moloch 60 years on, who published these gems called “Macabre Memories” about skeletons undergoing police brutality, hurling anarchist fart-bombs, and giving each other douches in the satirical magazine LÉclipse the year of the Paris Commune (exact date is unknown).
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The ironic love of the macabre provided a shared space of the avant-garde and large portions of pop culture throughout the 19th Century, from the Frenetic Romanticism of early in the century through the Bohemian cartoonist Moloch 60 years on, who published these gems called “Macabre Memories” about skeletons undergoing police brutality, hurling anarchist fart-bombs, and giving each other douches in the satirical magazine LÉclipse the year of the Paris Commune (exact date is unknown).
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