http://www.abcgallery.com/M/millais/millais20.html
Agree about Burne-Jones - have you seen his Perseus series in Stuttgart?
The best fantasy comic ever.
People not only still read *The Pooh Perplex*, it has a successor,
*Postmodern Pooh* (2001), more aggressively upfront than the first
(from *Just Lack a Woman* by Sisera Catheter: "Tigger, whose provocative
tattoos and pneumatic thrusts have already induced Baby Roo's first
involuntary ejaculation...Even Eeyore...His renowned tristesse ... is
plainly postcoital - indeed postorgiastic. Damage to the overstressed
member is his nagging concern" etc etc.
mjay
Jon Corelis wrote:
>There's a fine painting of Mariana by Millais. It doesn't seem to be on the
>internet, but it's often reproduced in poetry anthologies which include the
>poem. It's one of my favorite pictures, half because of its evocative and
>startlingly frank portrayal of frustrated sexuality, half for the camp value
>of its heavyhanded symbolism. For example, dry leaves are falling on
>Mariana's knitting, and through the window we can glimpse a fallow field. The
>painting is crammed with things like that.
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>Among the pre-Raphaelites I think that Burne-Jones is the best graphic artist,
>while Millais has the best dramatic sense. But for sheer hilarilous camp
>value, there's no one like Holman Hunt.
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>Thanks to Anny Ballardini for the reference to philosophical humor, which will
>afford an unending source of innocent amusement. For some reason it reminds
>me of The Pooh Perplex. Do people still read that? It used to be part of the
>rite of passage of being a graduate student. I still smile whenever I think
>of "the by Freud described Little Hans" (and me a Freudian.)
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