Elektron Ebooks: 115 books
Writings On Hashish And Alcohol
Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In the 1840s, Charles Baudelaire was a regular member of the infamous Club des Hashischins ("Club of the Hashish-Eatersâ€), a Parisian literary group dedicated to the exploration of altered states of consciousness, principally through the use of hashish (a concentrated form of cannabis resin)....
by Fredric Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
A hard-drinking reporter, a schizophrenic stripper, a disgraced psychoanalyst, and a mysterious serial killer who razors his female victims to death, collide with deadly and shocking reverberations in Fredric Brown’s masterful crime classic THE SCREAMING MIMI, filmed in 1958 by Gerd Oswald,...
Speed Destruction Noise War
Futurist Manifestos 1909-15
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurism was a radical art and social movement that glorified modernistic concepts of speed, destruction, noise, machines, cities and war. Marinetti's obsession with the future even extended to the abolition of libraries and museums, which...
The Great Masturbator
Conversations With Salvador Dali
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
By 1970, artist Salvador Dali had transcended his own past to reinvent himself as the "Divine Dali" - the living embodiment of Surrealism, a master showman, eccentric world traveller, and accumulator of increasingly vast amounts of wealth. One of Dali's favoured haunts at this time was the Hotel Meurice...
The Art Of Destruction
The Films Of The Vienna Aktion Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The Vienna Aktion Group formed the most provocative, insurgent and challenging of all the worldwide art movements of the 1960s. Their sexually-charged and anti-social actions exacted a profound and irreparable upheaval in the way in which art was conceived. Using their own bodies as raw material,...
White Riot
A Brief History of Vietnam War Protest Elements in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The latter part of the 1960s saw the advent of a small, short-lived genre of Vietnam War-related cinema – the “peacenik/draft-dodger†movie, in which student anti-war demonstrations and ruses used by America’s youth to avoid conscription were used as plot devices in films ranging...
by Stephen Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) invented the revolutionary performance art ‘Ankoku Butoh' - now celebrated worldwide as one of the most innovative and haunting contemporary art forms. Hijikata is the supreme figure in the last half-century of Japan's experimental culture, and remains a seminal and inspirational...
The Divine Marquis
A Study of De Sade
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), a rebel poet and general catalyst for the Paris avant-garde of his time, is often regarded as the spiritual forefather of Surrealism (it was he who, in fact, coined the term "surrealist†in 1917). In the early 1900s he began work at the Enfer section of the...
Maniac Eyeball
The Unspeakable Confessions Of Salvador Dali
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Maniac Eyeball contains the frank and uncensored confessions of Salvador DalÃ, from his childhood and first adolescent sexual experiences to his emergence as a painter, Surrealist, and eventually the most famous - and possibly richest -artist of modern times. These inspired tracts, covering art,...
DIABLERIES
A Trip To The Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Perhaps the most fascinating, provocative and intricately modelled of all images created during the 19th century craze for stereoscopic photography remain those created in Paris from around 1860 onwards, and now known as Diableries (or “devilriesâ€). 19th century France was renowned for its...
GHOSTS BEHIND THE SUN
Memphis: Splendor, Enigma & Death
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Ghost Behind The Sun, Tav Falco's sprawling study of Memphis, begins with the Civil War massacre at Fort Pillow, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 and the grisly murders of the Harp Brothers. Falco traces these legends of Reconstruction-era Memphis to an equally brutal twentieth century underworld –...
Horrors Of War (Volume 1)
Death, Atrocity And Battle Card Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Bayoneted, beheaded, blasted to bits by bombs – death and bloody carnage were the highlights of the infamous 1938 trading card series “Horrors Of Warâ€, which depicted alternating scenes from three contemporary conflicts: the Sino-Japanese War, the Spanish Civil War, and Mussolini’s...
AI NO CORRIDA
A Film By Nagisa Oshima
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
AI NO CORRIDA (1976) is Nagisa Oshima's hardcore sex version of the bizarre Sada Abe murder-mutilation-necrophilia case, which stunned Japanese society in 1936. Produced in France to avoid Japan's strict censorship laws, Oshima's film caused outrage upon its release but has since been recognised...
Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The "penny blood†came into being through a process which began with higher standards of general education and literacy in England at the beginning of the 19th century, and continued with the invention of fast and efficient printing presses and cheap paper production. These combined elements...