Tag: suicide
Frank Leslie – From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, May 30, 1885. Copied from http://thepublici.blogspot.com/2009/07/very-bad-idea.html.
Robert Emmet Odlum jumping from Brooklyn Bridge on May 19, 1885.
Édouard Manet – Le Suicidé (c. 1877-1881)
“The pictorial content of the painting is limited to a man who appears to have just shot himself—still holding a gun while slouched on a bed—and a few pieces of furniture. Manet has removed the trappings of earlier depictions of suicide, and provided next to no narrative content or ‘moralizing tendency.’ Manet’s approach to this depiction may represent his continuing desire to break from academic tradition, in which a depiction of suicide could only fit within the genre of history painting—where death and suicide would be placed within a narrative associated with sacrifice, idealism, or heroism. The artist has not given us a time, a place, or a protagonist. The painting is plainly constructed rather than carefully styled.”
– From Wikipedia
“German–Hebrew Encounters in the Poetry and Correspondence of Yehuda Amichai and Paul Celan” by Na’ama Rokem
Karen Green from Bough Down
1) Emmy Hyche, “Corpse Logic”
2) Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
3) Magda Romanska, “NecroOphelia: Death, femininity and the making of modern aesthetics”
5) Joshua Foer, “A Minor History of Useful Corpses”
6) Alice Notley, “Bobby (First Visit Back to the States”, Mysteries of Small Houses
7) Claudia Rankine, Citizen
8) Kathy Acker, “The Following Myth of Romantic Suffering Has to be Done Away With”
9) Claudia Rankine | Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
10) Rebecca Solnit, “A Rape a Minute, A Thousand Corpses a Year: Hate crimes in America—and elsewhere—add up to the world’s longest war”
Bill Anderson – 3AM (1964)
Sometimes a depressing country song can sound uplifting
This old world’s an awful place at 3 a.m.
Little Bristling Soul 