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Click for larger imageGwynyth Comments: “Time to Marie Kondo the hell out of this place”.
Published 1981
(Average: 6.71 out of 10)
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Gwynyth Comments: “Time to Marie Kondo the hell out of this place”.
Published 1981
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February 18th, 2021 at 9:22 am
“Sure, let the kids have their party, you said – and NOW LOOK!”
February 18th, 2021 at 10:32 am
I say there is no such thing as too much verdigris,
February 18th, 2021 at 1:43 pm
Yesterday the woman was a plant. Today she’s a random piece of rubbish. It’s almost enough to make me nostalgic for an honest, sexist T&A fantasy heroine with big boobs and a stupid pout.
February 18th, 2021 at 2:46 pm
It all started when Empidoceles and Clymestre argued about whose turn it was to clean the sink at the Temple of Mithras, but things escalated, and thirty years later here we are.
February 18th, 2021 at 2:57 pm
I’m not getting a warm vibe from the latest additions to la Sagrada Familia.
February 18th, 2021 at 4:26 pm
All this week, people have been saying ‘it’s not the same without Mardi Gras’ but where do people keep that stuff the other 364 days?
At least on Boxing Day you get to regift.
February 18th, 2021 at 4:38 pm
Don’t you hate it when college kids throw a lease-breaking party
February 18th, 2021 at 4:52 pm
I admire the artist’s ability to create texture. But the more I look at this, the less I understand what’s going on.
February 18th, 2021 at 5:13 pm
Max Ernst called. He wants his imagery and technique back.
February 18th, 2021 at 8:29 pm
@B. Chiclitz: out behind Max’s house,the garbage dump of poorly realized and discarded artistic concepts, gently steaming like a manure pile in the sun.
(One man’s trash is another man’s cover art…treasure?)
February 18th, 2021 at 9:14 pm
Some people bronze their baby shoes. Others their trash pile.
February 18th, 2021 at 10:43 pm
What you get when you choose the wrong beast of burden to carry a howdah.
February 19th, 2021 at 3:33 am
From the SF online encyclopedia: Cette Chère Humanité (1976; trans by Steve Cox as Brave Old World 1981), which won the 1977 Prix Apollo (see Awards), examines the effects of lifespan extension (through the Invention of “slow-time”) upon an EEC isolated for decades behind an artificial barrier.
Which explains absolutely nothing about the cover, save for the pun in the English title.
February 19th, 2021 at 1:43 pm
Its like Hieronymus Bosch but with less symbology. Or talent.
February 20th, 2021 at 3:30 am
What is this I don’t even.
@Bruce: Could it be — and I realize this is may be a shocking speculation — that the UAI cover was randomly slapped on an unrelated novel?
@FB: There’s a pair of boobs over to the right, but I suppose you might have gone blind from the festival-o-tarnished crap before getting that far.
February 22nd, 2021 at 4:33 am
O Brave Old World
That has such WTF in it
March 6th, 2021 at 8:59 pm
It’s the commercial aspect of this cover that puzzles me…
If publishers wanted *selling* covers at a very low price, then there’s a huuuge backlist of cheesy-but-slick 19th century paintings they could use instead of disturbing, highbrow Surrealist art.
Again the big question arises: Do skiffy publishers struggle with self-loathing issues?
:-S
March 6th, 2021 at 11:47 pm
And in 1981, no less. Post-disco, early Reagan/Thatcher… this was NOT the aesthetic that sold then. I can hear 1981 me saying “Wow, that’s ugly”.
Maybe the artist only was told the middle word of the title.
May 30th, 2021 at 7:46 pm
I’m sad I lack the ability to comprehend this.