Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place)
@drjannmatlock.bsky.social
Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/
I thought courses in this context=modules, so imagined sth like the REFdirection sitting around (as in these dog paintings!) bargaining for reducing teaching in exchange for whatever they had in the barn (horses, cows, pigs...)! you meant courses=racecourse! I think my version is probably too true.
September 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I thought courses in this context=modules, so imagined sth like the REFdirection sitting around (as in these dog paintings!) bargaining for reducing teaching in exchange for whatever they had in the barn (horses, cows, pigs...)! you meant courses=racecourse! I think my version is probably too true.
No more kings. No more tyranny. 14 juillet 1789. La Prise de la Bastille. Hand-Colored Perspective print (vue d'optique) from the Basset printers on the rue Saint-Jacques. Already on sale by late July 1789!
July 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
No more kings. No more tyranny. 14 juillet 1789. La Prise de la Bastille. Hand-Colored Perspective print (vue d'optique) from the Basset printers on the rue Saint-Jacques. Already on sale by late July 1789!
Do these people even know where Alcatraz is located? Holy hell. I have news for the DJT administration--it's not in the middle of nowhere. And even if it were near Guam--it's like these bozos think we can disappear people to someplace in the Pacific so. of where CaptCook was last seen in one piece.
May 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Do these people even know where Alcatraz is located? Holy hell. I have news for the DJT administration--it's not in the middle of nowhere. And even if it were near Guam--it's like these bozos think we can disappear people to someplace in the Pacific so. of where CaptCook was last seen in one piece.
his rhetoric (and the sing-song-ey tone) sounds just like he did the day he claimed that Dr. Birx was going to look into using bleach injections to kill covid.
May 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
his rhetoric (and the sing-song-ey tone) sounds just like he did the day he claimed that Dr. Birx was going to look into using bleach injections to kill covid.
Liar Liar Pants on Fire. "100 countries knocking on the door." Betcha those Penguins just can't get over how exciting their deal is for that uninhabited Island that has been hit with tariffs. The spontaneous cumbustion of these liars might be good for all that ice, but seriously?
April 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Liar Liar Pants on Fire. "100 countries knocking on the door." Betcha those Penguins just can't get over how exciting their deal is for that uninhabited Island that has been hit with tariffs. The spontaneous cumbustion of these liars might be good for all that ice, but seriously?
It's worth remembering Jules Dassin's film abt a heist was made bc he was forced out of America by McCarthyism (his name sounds french but he was from Middletown, CT). Also: he took a racist novel & gave it a new twist (incl a riff on 'informants'). A film to revisit @criterion.bsky.social DVD!
April 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's worth remembering Jules Dassin's film abt a heist was made bc he was forced out of America by McCarthyism (his name sounds french but he was from Middletown, CT). Also: he took a racist novel & gave it a new twist (incl a riff on 'informants'). A film to revisit @criterion.bsky.social DVD!
Me in the National security team group chat.
March 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Me in the National security team group chat.
This would be a good day to make a donation to support democratic Ukraine's defense against the invaders of their sovereignty. Here is a link to the Come Back Alive foundation.https://savelife.in.ua/en/
March 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This would be a good day to make a donation to support democratic Ukraine's defense against the invaders of their sovereignty. Here is a link to the Come Back Alive foundation.https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Thinking of brilliant art historian Linda Nochlin this weekend. Thursday 30 January would have been her 94th birthday. I love this photo of her teaching at Vassar just after her PhD ca. 1965. She mentored so many wonderful scholars. We need voices like hers today. May her memory be our strength.
February 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Thinking of brilliant art historian Linda Nochlin this weekend. Thursday 30 January would have been her 94th birthday. I love this photo of her teaching at Vassar just after her PhD ca. 1965. She mentored so many wonderful scholars. We need voices like hers today. May her memory be our strength.
Fellow Twitter-Geniuses! I read something somewhere abt the mannekin/doll/marionette on optical boxes like this but I can't remember where or what. I'm interested in the purpose of placing a doll atop a perspective box (boite d'optique)& whether this was a fantasy contraption. Does anyone know more?
December 16, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Fellow Twitter-Geniuses! I read something somewhere abt the mannekin/doll/marionette on optical boxes like this but I can't remember where or what. I'm interested in the purpose of placing a doll atop a perspective box (boite d'optique)& whether this was a fantasy contraption. Does anyone know more?
Ma préférée. Fantin Latour 1861
December 1, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Ma préférée. Fantin Latour 1861
thanks for that, fascinating! i had a deep dive into pamela illustrations last year thinking abt "p hats" which were a huge thing in france in the late revolutionary years (long story why). I hadn't known abt the supper-boxes. though no pamela hat in sight, your cover lilustration is still a joy!
November 27, 2024 at 6:20 PM
thanks for that, fascinating! i had a deep dive into pamela illustrations last year thinking abt "p hats" which were a huge thing in france in the late revolutionary years (long story why). I hadn't known abt the supper-boxes. though no pamela hat in sight, your cover lilustration is still a joy!
Marguerite Gerard (with Fragonard) (late 1780s), Le Chat angora. MG was a childless catlady and then some. The cat is presciently reacting to the current cabinet picks.
November 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Marguerite Gerard (with Fragonard) (late 1780s), Le Chat angora. MG was a childless catlady and then some. The cat is presciently reacting to the current cabinet picks.
I was thinking of the Dixie Mall in Blues Brothers. Google it for the after shots.
November 17, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I was thinking of the Dixie Mall in Blues Brothers. Google it for the after shots.
even more cuteness & gorgeousness: you can have Meryl Streep narrating Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester (i think it's on archive.org but you can also buy cheap via streaming services).Not so minor: I had forgotten the cat's name but it's a lovely story! Is your cat a Birman? Cat people are the best
November 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM
even more cuteness & gorgeousness: you can have Meryl Streep narrating Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester (i think it's on archive.org but you can also buy cheap via streaming services).Not so minor: I had forgotten the cat's name but it's a lovely story! Is your cat a Birman? Cat people are the best
Just a picture of the "crackpots and fools" (citation from Arendt, detail from Bosch):
November 16, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Just a picture of the "crackpots and fools" (citation from Arendt, detail from Bosch):
Ghoul. Ignorant. Incompetent Snake-oil selling Ghoul.
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Ghoul. Ignorant. Incompetent Snake-oil selling Ghoul.
Who is going to review the other 99% of applicants? (in asking this i'm not in the least ignoring the outrageousness of the rest, but what "inefficient" logic that betrays the presence of "charlatans and fools whose lack of intelligence & creativity is...the best guarantee of their loyalty"[Arendt])
November 14, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Who is going to review the other 99% of applicants? (in asking this i'm not in the least ignoring the outrageousness of the rest, but what "inefficient" logic that betrays the presence of "charlatans and fools whose lack of intelligence & creativity is...the best guarantee of their loyalty"[Arendt])
May the current "Scharlatane and Narren" be quickly this downtrodden. (doesn't this one look a little like one of the appointees for policy). thanks wikimedia! and to the 1862 painter Jan Matejko.
November 14, 2024 at 6:48 PM
May the current "Scharlatane and Narren" be quickly this downtrodden. (doesn't this one look a little like one of the appointees for policy). thanks wikimedia! and to the 1862 painter Jan Matejko.
Could anyone point to 18th-19th-c. paintings (especially of women) where we see watches or clocks? I'm thinking of this one of the Comtesse de Buffon as an example (she was quite a character; maybe the watch suggests that getting involved w her meant the guy was on borrowed time).
April 21, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Could anyone point to 18th-19th-c. paintings (especially of women) where we see watches or clocks? I'm thinking of this one of the Comtesse de Buffon as an example (she was quite a character; maybe the watch suggests that getting involved w her meant the guy was on borrowed time).