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Writer, translator, publisher (@RixdorfEditions) now at jamesjconway.bsky.social

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... and Beck delivered a bitter response under a prophetic pseudonym: Troll. Beck later turns up as a character in André Gide’s "The Counterfeiters" and when the writing dried up he became a salesman for Sunlight soap, before dying of tuberculosis in 1916 at the age of just 37.

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Illustrations by Stephen Tennant for his long-planned novel "Lascar", which remained unfinished on his death, in 1987. https://t.co/kfvmEOqHn2

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Artist Elisàr von Kupffer was born 150 years ago today. The beyond-camp works he created for his homoerotic chivalric order/two-man religion – Clarism – suggest a clothes-optional Roscicrucian jamboree. https://t.co/o257t5c6Xe

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Artist Dorothea Tanning died 10 years ago today, at the age of 101. Here: a selection of Tanning's costume designs for ballets by George Balanchine ("Night Shadow") and John Cranko ("The Witch").

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Jean Cocteau’s film "Le sang d’un poète" premiered 90 years ago today; it featured "Barbette" – who was actually Vander Clyde, a Texas-born aerialist who wowed between-the-wars Paris in drag. https://t.co/7c9TLSLeRV

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Poet Anna de Noailles became the first woman to be named a Commander of the Legion of Honour, in 1931. (image: Ignacio Zuloaga)

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Mystic British artist Georgiana Houghton produces her first abstract work, The Holy Trinity, in 1961. No, wait - 1861. 18-goddam-61!

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Images from the "Decad of Intelligence" series by Ithell Colquhoun, born in 1906. https://t.co/u7FvStiSha

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Works by Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (born 1892), who achieved prominence in post-war Germany as an Outsider artist with feverish depictions of demonic, big-butted forms, like something out of a Lil Wayne cheese dream. https://t.co/HnpzgWxc3G

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