THE HAY DAY OF WHIG POSTMODERNIST HISTORY IS ALWAYS AFTER THE FACT

DK spells out the scenario for making good Whig progressive restoration political authority history, in this passage below, when the "winners" in some current crisis (any crisis) have seemed to emerge from the recent conflagration triumphant, representing the verdict, the judgment of history, finally, when the dust has settled, in their favor:

"...There is, I think, a profound connection between political and intellectual anarchy.  That is why, as a favorite Harvard professor of mine remarked nearly 50 years ago, history thrives in periods of restoration--that is, the 20-40 years after a great political crisis, when political authority has won renewed respect, society is relatively stable, and there is enough time, and calm, to think.  We do not live in such a time.  I do not know when it might return.

Anyone is welcome, anytime, to tell me how wrong, and how misguided, I am. 

After all, this is merely a blog. Not an affair of state.

Speaking of affairs of state, one can end up having an old European royal in the family, without having intended it. Such a thing can happen by accident, as it were.  Kismet.

I know this makes little sense, but there it is. 

It makes democratic twaddle pale into utter insignificance.

THIS IS DESIGNED TO HELP THEM GET BETTER GRADES IN DR CONGO U

DR Congo militia rape students on eve of exams

MINUTE 53 HE GETS ASKED POINT BLANK ABOUT WAR IN PREHISTORY SEE WHAT HE SAYS

Sunday, August 30, 2020

REICH BOUGHT ARGUMENT CASTE INDIA WAS A WHITE COLONIAL INVENTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pra7YZWVc-s

You have to have read his book to see just how disingenuous this position in this lecture really is.

AUDIENCE TODAY WE HAD HAD A LOT OF "PORTUGUESE" EARLIER

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USEFUL STATISTICS ON POLICE ACTION NATIONWIDE

I forwarded this to my wife, basically a white negro. She thinks almost all people killed by police are negroes killed for white racist reasons. I don't know why I bothered forwarding it. She lives in a WNYC (Brian Lehrer), NPR, NYT fog. No point in reasoning with someone like that, really.

"...I think there will be further incidents along these lines between  now and the election.  Across the nation, our police consistently kill about three people a day.  So far this year they have killed 661 people, most of whom we never hear of.  242 of them, it is worth noting, are white, and 123 are black.  80 are Hispanic and more than 200 do not have an identified race.  Only when actual video exists do they become national issues.  Shootings remain constant and videos become more and more common, and thus, I expect more well-publicized cases.  Each of them will lead to more marches, probably to more outbursts of arson and looting, and perhaps to more violent counter-protests as well.  I share the fear that all this will help Donald Trump in his campaign for re-election...." DK

UAE CAME FOR THOSE LIBYANS' ASSES WITH A CHINK DRONE!

Thomas L Friedman said everything is politics now.

I said, no, everything is personal and bestial.

The attack in Libya is an example, not of Friedman's so called politics, but of my bestial world.

As far as I am concerned, the UAE and the Chinks, and anyone else,  can kill as many Libyans as they can find or see. Why get in the way of a good, down and dirty personal global vendetta?

UAE implicated in lethal drone strike in Libya

The BBC has uncovered new evidence that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 unarmed cadets at a military academy in Libya's capital Tripoli in January 2020.

But evidence indicates the cadets were hit by a Chinese Blue Arrow 7 missile.

This was fired by a drone called the Wing Loong II and the investigation by BBC Africa Eye and BBC Arabic Documentaries also found evidence that, at the time of the strike, Wing Loong II drones were only operating from one Libyan air base - al-Khadim - and that the UAE supplied and operated the drones that were stationed there.

GREECE GOOD TIME HAD BY ALL SLUT OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

Europe's migrant crisis: Is Greece still a gateway to Europe?

FEAR OF VIOLENT NEGROES SPREADING NORTH GOT LINCOLN ELECTED

"...I share the fear that all this will help Donald Trump in his campaign for re-election...." DK

It is others' growing fears, based on the fearful scenario he describes and foresees, not DK's own fear of a Trump re election, that will get Trump re elected, just as it got Lincoln first elected.

WHERE TO PIVOT THE NAM BUTT NEXT?

Which butt?
The next but next butt.
The last butt?
No, the next but next.
The next to Nam butt next but?
No butt but next butt.
Which butt?

This post is dedicated to the memory of Sir Michael Howard, who if he had laughed, would not have let it be known.

HINDU TO HINDU STRAIGHT POOP IN SOWELL MIGRATIONS CH 7 FN 150 BHARATI

'We and the Africans couldn't care less for each other.'

Bandung Conference of Third World Nations, 1955

Trust me, that is an understatement of Gandhi's own views.

AFRICA ALBINO

People in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been paying tribute to a champion wrestler who was also a leading advocate for the rights of people with alibinism.

Alphonse Mwimba Makiese, whose wrestling name was Texas Mwimba, died at the weekend after a long illness at the age of 53, his son, Claudy, told the BBC.

Albinism is a rare, hereditary condition that leads to a lack of pigmentation in the hair, skin and eyes. Without melanin in their skin, those with albinism are more vulnerable to the damaging effects of the sun.

There are also a lot of superstitions associated with the condition and in some countries people with albinism are killed for their body parts.

In 2016, Texas Mwimba told the BBC that where he was from fishermen thought that his hair would bring them good luck if added to their nets. He refused the offer of money in exchange for his hair.

He said he spent his life fighting prejudice and "silly beliefs and superstitions".

He became a wrestler because he was bullied at school over his condition.

Initially he was told that he was too fragile to become a wrestler, but he ignored their complaints.

He went on to set up the Texas Mwimba Foundation to fight for the rights of people with albinism.

WADE'S DISCUSSION UBIQUITY AND SCIENCE OF ARCHAIC CANNIBALISM RE MAD COW DISEASE

This is very good, debunking all sorts of Whig Amherst Common pacifist Language Guide Social Science pacifist prehistory Mythologies.

What is especially interesting is his account of how the Japanese genetic resistance to mad cow disease differs from that of the rest of the world. 

But it is still a resistance that developed only there, over thousands of years of prehistoric cannibalism in Japan. Don't kid yourself. 

The Japanese did not get it by eating soy bean curd or miso or fish sushi!

US ALSO HAS NO OTHER OPTION LEFT PIVOTED INTO THE CHINA CORNER

"The first step is the one that altogether escapes notice." Wittgenstein

The Nixon Shock.

No place left to pivot your butt again, except one place.

One place left to pivot your long abused pivoting Vietnam basket bordello butt.

Tell me where it is?

IT WAS NOT ALTRUISM THAT CAUSED ANIMALS AND HUMANS TO FIGHT AS PACKS RATHER THAN FIGHT OF FLEE AS INDIVDUALS

A sense, a genetic feature, of altruism, may have emerged. 

But the modern idea was not the primitive one.

SMELL THE COFFEE GAME OVER FOR THE ANGLOPHONE WEST

The bulk of Australia's export wealth in (TO) China is tied to rare commodities such as iron ore, gas and coal - sectors which have not been affected so far amid the deteriorating relations.

Trust me, China intends to keep those bargained for resources, very favorable price and very long term contracts, one way, or the other.

Add to this mix the ways in which this whole phenomenon brings to the fore some deep, but often concealed, vulnerabilities in Australia's national psyche. This is a country that has never, until recently, had to conceive of itself as an Asian one, despite its geographical location.

Europe was the major source of its migration till recent decades, and America of its security and much of its economic growth. Now Australia is receiving large numbers of new citizens whose families come from the region, including many from China.

Australian universities are a good case study. Some have many thousands of Chinese students, meaning that these typically liberal institutions are dependent on funding from a stakeholder with very different values.

A recent Four Corners documentary from the national broadcaster ABC contained almost paranoid claims that a large number of this cohort posed a security risk through their political interference, and the ways they operated potentially as technology spies.

There are cases of some academics feeling under pressure on issues like Taiwan, Hong Kong or Xinjiang. The Chinese government and its agents have sometimes acted in a heavy-handed way. Even so, it is easy to see why some Chinese might feel bewildered that their contribution to the coffers of the country in which they are coming to study and gain new skills is interpreted in such an ominous way.

It seems that at the moment Mr Morrison is following the footsteps of his predecessors, and taking a highly contradictory attitude. That might be for the very simple harsh reality that, for all the confident talk of standing up to the China threat, his administration, and his country, has no other option.

Kerry Brown is professor of Chinese Studies and director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London. From 2012 to 2015 he was professor of Chinese politics and director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

AUSTRALIA ALREADY A VASSAL STATE IN EVERYTHING BUT NAME

'China is an important market'

NO RULES. JUST RIGHT.

China is Australia's largest trading market - accounting for 32.6% of the value of all national exports.

ITS NOT TLF EVERYTHING POLITICAL

 IT'S PERSONAL. TAKE HER. SHE'S YOURS.

Cheng Lei: Australian anchor on Chinese TV detained in China.

Australia's government warned its citizens in July that they were at increased risk of detention in China.

Tensions between the two nations have escalated in recent months, after Australia led calls for an official investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in China.

China already owns about half of Australia, so Australia better smell the coffee and go vassal state status, do whatever china tells them to do or think, or China will know why not!

IF THERE WAS A SMELL TEST FOR IMMIGRATING TO AFRICA SHAUN KING WOULD NOT PASS IT

He would foul out even before Brazilian Christians.

REICH BOUGHT ARGUMENT CASTE INDIA WAS A WHITE COLONIAL INVENTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pra7YZWVc-s

MINUTE 46.

Reich's and his advocates'argument is of course idiocy. Nicholas Dirks, Castes Of Mind
Nicholas Dirks, Wikipedia

Same point from a prior post, but you can't call out idiocy too often.

EUROPE AS EUROPE IS TOAST

Europe's migrant crisis: The year that changed a continent

ANDREAS ILLMER AND JAPANESE BLM RACIAL SLURS DIALOGUE ME AND HIM

A.I., BBC: "You're just using negro as a racial slur for how the Japanese treated the Chinese and the Mongolians! They aren't negroes and never were, and you know it!"

me: "According to Nicholas Wade, Before The Dawn, and how the !Kung San, never out of Africa, vestige early modern humans, treat the Chinese and Mongoliians they have seen, and how they both look, they are negroes for other African negroes, baby! Gotcha! You accused the Japanese of BLM racism, bitch, not me! Why not open out the discussion of Japanese racism and aggression to include all racism and aggression against all Asian Chinese and Mongolian yellow negroes!"

A. I.: "Nonsense."

me: "If Chinks and Mongos are African enough for the African !Kung, they are African enough for me. I don't care what the fricking Angolans think about Brazilian mulattoes!"

Saturday, August 15, 2020

BRAZIL SOUTH AMERICA WEST AFRICA MULATTO STATE CALLED OUT BY ANGOLA AFRICA

Angola orders Brazil evangelical churches to close

Last year 300 Angolan UCKG bishes broke away, because the UCKG was not African enough,BABY! Negro on negro expulsion of mulatto Brazilian Christian Evangelical Church from Angola's ass.

Maybe the Angolans will call the mulatto Brazilians 1619 Project white Christian Imperialists, invading enslaving and colonizing black negro Africa again. Bullshit. 

JAPAN TREATED CHINA LIKE YELLOW NEGROES BECAUSE THEY ARE

That's because they are!

unday, July 26, 2020

WADE DESCRIBES THE !KUNG SAN ROUSSEAU'S NOBLE SAVAGE LOCKE AND JEFFERSON'S NATURAL MAN

The !Kung San, or just !Kung, for short.

This is a now small branch, from the dawn of modern humans, which did not leave Africa. Only one of three earliest branches did.

They are negroes that look like darkish yellow Chinese and especially Mongolians, and like many native Americans who originated in Siberia, and Eskimos, but are genetically Africans which never ever left Africa.

Wade, Before The Dawn, "Eden",  'BETWEEN THE UNIVERSAL PEOPLE AND THE REAL PEOPLE' p. 64

These people think of themselves as different from both other Africans and from Europeans. 

But they think of Chinese and Mongolian types as kin, whom they strikingly resemble.  They call Asians they resemble The Real People, the same as they call themselves.  Wade, p. 67

NEGRO SHAMING

ANY RACE CAN NOW BE NEGRO SHAMED BY ANY OTHER RACE FOR ANY REASONS

We have seen that even negro mulattoes, Brazilians, can  be aggressively negro shamed by Africans in Africa.

They know that Brazilians are not African enough at all for them.  

A Soviet Agent at BBC can negro shame Japan about BLM The 1619 Project.

Let's put it this way: For Illmer, negro liberation and its history since 1619 is way more important than anything the Japanese have ever done in their history or will ever do in the future!

It is now really a kind of sport!

On this account one might speculate further, and assert that Japan's conquest of China was a kind of treating the Chinese as negroes to be enslaved by the japanese!

Japan should be as ashamed of the China conquest as of discrimination re BLM. 

These phenomena are like two peas in the history pod to folks like Illmer.

Hey, let's take a look at recent posts discussing the genetic relations between Africans and Chinese!

Sunday, July 26, 2020

WADE DESCRIBES THE !KUNG SAN ROUSSEAU'S NOBLE SAVAGE LOCKE AND JEFFERSON'S NATURAL MAN

The !Kung San, or just !Kung, for short.

This is a now small branch, from the dawn of modern humans, which did not leave Africa. Only one of three earliest branches did.

They are negroes that look like darkish yellow Chinese and especially Mongolians, and like many native Americans who originated in Siberia, and Eskimos, but are genetically Africans which never ever left Africa.

Wade, Before The Dawn, "Eden",  'BETWEEN THE UNIVERSAL PEOPLE AND THE REAL PEOPLE' p. 64

Thursday, January 2, 2020

SEE ESPECIALLY DISCUSSIONS RE CHINESE VERSUS AFRICAN IMPORTATION

House Ex. Doc. No. 7, 36 Cong., 2 sess.

The Chinese, "...a more dangerous and worse population than the Africans...."

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llss&fileName=1000/1095/llss1095.db&recNum=51

Saturday, September 29, 2018

RE MISS SAIGON ASIAN ACTORS

He would successfully return to the stage originating the role of The Engineer, a eurasian pimp, in the West End musical Miss Saigon. His performance was praised in England where he won the Olivier and Variety Club awards, but when the production transferred to Broadway the (AEA) would not allow Pryce to portray The Engineer because, according to their executive secretary, "[t]he casting of a caucasian actor made up to appear Asian is an affront to the Asian community." The show's producer, decided to cancel the $10 million New York production because, he said, he would not let the freedom of artistic expression be attacked. Realizing that its decision would result in the loss of many jobs, and after Pryce received much support from the acting community (both Heston and Malkovich threatened to leave the union if Pryce was not allowed to perform) the AEA decided to make a deal with Mackintosh, allowing Pryce to appear in the production. He would then, in 1991, win a Tony for his performance.

What a bunch of crap.
Rather like insisting that all films depicting drag queens must employ gay actors!
Horse shit.

My recent suggestion for a John Waters type take off film  re Crazy Rich Asians, would have Euros playing all the Asian roles, and no ethnic Asians in any role whatsoever.

THOMAS SOWELL GREAT LOOSE CANNON SPEAKING TRUTH TO NEGROES

'Asians have not been admirers of African culture, African habits, or African appearance.' 
Migrations, pb, 327.

Abraham Lincoln had told a delegation of free negroes the same things, to their faces, in the White House, during the Civil War, and they basically flipped him the bird.

REICH'S LATER ACCOUNT CONTRADICTS WADE RESEARCH REPORT RE POPULATION PROPORTIONS IN EUROPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pra7YZWVc-s

Wade had reported findings that the bulk of European DNA today is derived from earlier hunter gatherers, who had mixed with a minority of first farmers from the Middle East.

Reich's account asserts both a large influx of farmers circa 8.5 to 5K years ago, and then another large influx of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists (not hunter gatherers or farmers( circa 5K years ago, and these two laater migrations make up the bulk of modern European DNA, not the Wade report of majority of prior hunter gatnerers at all.

AQUINAS HAD BEEN FAR MORE ENLIGHTENED THAN ZWINGLI CALVIN OR LUTHER

WHAT IS IT REALLY ABOUT?

Germany coronavirus: Anger after attempt to storm Reichstag

TERMS SEARCH

take shot either way

FRENCH HAUNTED WOOD

French spying: Senior army officer investigated

Shades of Dreyfus Affair?

JAPAN CONFRONTING BLM SOVIET AGENT ON BBC STAFF STOKING THE RACIST FIRE

Andreas Illmer.

This putative Soviet initiative in Japan dovetails with the recent post I did on a propaganda and influence report at a conference, attended by Pillsbury, of Chinese propaganda which would target America re anti Chinese racism and McCarthyism. 

These are going to be related racism claims against mainly the white West going forward, but also against someone like Japan, no less racist than China.

Sunday, August 30, 2020

THOMAS SOWELL GREAT LOOSE CANNON SPEAKING TRUTH TO NEGROES

'Asians have not been admirers of African culture, African habits, or African appearance.' 

Migrations, pb, 327.

Abraham Lincoln had told a delegation of free negroes the same things, to their faces, in the White House, during the Civil War, and they basically flipped him the bird.

My own personal preference would be to jam as many starving Africans up Illmer's ass as the Rooskies, for 200 years, had  jammed starving Jews up the West's.

TRUST ME WHEN IT COMES TO CONFRONTING RACISM JAPAN IS ON OFFENSE NOT DEFENSE

Who wrote the article on BLM needs confronted by japan?

Fucking Andreas Illmer. 

The Japanese are being fucked by the BBC by a Soviet Agent!

It only takes a second, online, to see that Illmer is a Soviet agent of influence.

The Japanese believe that they are the best race, by far.

You're not going to vote their asses into multicultural equality.

Chinese, Koreans, dittohead.

You can kid yourself, you fool.

NOT ABOUT LATINO MIGRANTS ANYMORE WHOLE OTHER BALL GAME

PUT THESE BANKSY MIGRANTS IN CENTRAL LONDON

Banksy is a low grade career criminal vandal, not an artist.

He needs a long stretch in a Sub Saharan Africa prison with those negroes he tried to ship into Europe.

MY OLD SELFIES CROSS BETWEEN RACHEL MADDOW SHAUN KING

1 WORLD WARS LIEO TURNED INTO JEWISH LIBERATION

2 AMERICAN HISTORY BECAME 1619 PROJECT NEGRO LIBERATION HISTORY ONLY. Negroes built America.

That is your history now. 

That pretty much says it all.

Oh, I forgot Number 3: 

The US ending of WWII and its Cold War liberated the whole world of color from white anti semitic nation state imperialist racists. The Age of Discovery West, and Industrial Revolution white Western Civilization itself, had been built really by enslaved subject peoples of different darker colors, and not at all by whites, who did nothing at all.

ISLAMIC LIVES MATTER MORE

Protest against Koran-burning turns violent in Sweden

BLACK ISLAMIC LIVES MATTER A WHOLE LOT

Trying to get along with a devout Muslim is like trying to get along with a BIZARRO!

DIVERSITY STUDIES THE 1619 PROJECT WHITE PEOPLE BLAME WHITE PEOPLE

How much diversity do you think you want?

The most genetically diverse population in the world is Africa.

But guess what?

Most of them are starving. They are backward. They are very very warlike. They are often cannibals.

And they often want to get out (Wouldn't you?) and invade other areas of greater prosperity as much as they possibly can.

And, although the most genetically diverse population in the entire world, they are nevertheless all still negroes.

Way over a billion of them.

The rich ones clear over $300 a year in income.

Because white people blame white people for African slavery, African negroes, about a billion of them, do too.

Because white people blame white people for the present condition of Africa and Africans, African negroes do too.

African negroes do not know that much of their history. What they know is colored.  They know what little they know about, mainly only what they see right now, most of what they know is neoliberal postmodern pap, and African current situation on the ground, and their traditional tribal and national prejudices and fears.

WHY DEGLOBALIZATION WILL NOT WORK WELL IF AT ALL GIVEN OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM

Monday, August 24, 2020

HERE'S ANOTHER DISCUSSION OF ROME SPECIALIZATION WARD-PERKINS SOWELL DK ETC

Was specialization, connected with problems and opportunities of interpenetration of civilizations, of middleman minorities, and what we might just as well call, beyond a certain point, middleman imperialists, trade and offshored production, and investment?  That seems to obviously to be the case.

Monday, August 24, 2020

THE LIEO ITSELF SINCE THE 19TH CENTURY HAS BEEN A WESTERN SOCIALIST PLOT

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Friday, January 10, 2020

BRYAN WARD-PERKINS THE FALL OF ROME THE DANGER OF SPECIALIZATION

He rebuts the current predominant Whig interpretation that Rome never fell....and this is part of his explanation, to some extent, of why.

He notes that the decline was not merely to a place in ancient Mediterranean and near eastern civilization antedating the rise of Rome, but a reversion to the level of the iron age, even before that.

I am just going to cite this passage in the context of other things I have said about specialization and its problems, and globalization and its problems, today. These are not unrelated. 

They are also related to problems caused by the idea, a dogma here, that one can rely on the market as one's fundamental political economic and social planning mechanism. 

I have discussed it in the context of globalization of production, consumption, and distribution, on the one hand, and of the related problem of the ramifying specialization of everything everywhere, on the other. 

This is an aspect of the problem of specialization, and of what one might call the cults of change, progress, and technology.

The Danger of Specialization, p 136.
"ironically...the Roman experience had been highly damaging."

ROBUST AND SATISFYING DEMOLITION OF FAUX IDEAS OLD OR BRAND NEW ON ALL SIDES

THAT IS THE BEST ONE CAN HOPE FOR IN THESE DAYS.

It is an acquired taste.

FORTRESS EUROPE PROBABLY WILL FOLD AND BECOME A NEGRO FRINGE OF EURASIA

The crew managed to keep #LouiseMichel stable for almost 12h now. Our new friends told us they lost 3 friends on their journey already. Including the dead body in our one life raft, that makes 4 lives vanished because of Fortress Europe... And we are still waiting.

If you don't keep these billion starving negroes at bay with bullets, you won't keep them at bay.

I SELDOM GET MALTA

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TERRI GROSS CORY BOOKER CHAT

Nice to see you.
Great to be here.
What do you think about all these monuments being pulled down?
I think it is time, Terri.
Many people agree with you.
We live in a time, Terri when people don't really need monuments anymore.
I see. I noted that you had been a Rhodes Scholar, is that right?
Yes, Terri, and I am very proud of that.
How did you feel about the removal of the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford?
I thought it was time, Terri. Matter of fact, I helped.
I see.
It's better to just think about what's happening today, Terri. That's all that really matters.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for having me.

BLM BECAUSE NEGRO RACISM IS TRYING NOW TO TAKE OVER THIS COUNTRY FROM WHITE RACISM

As they can see with their own eyes, other racial minorities are stepping in in huge numbers now ahead of their asses, and whites are doing nothing to coddle negroes falling farther behind in the race race.

Asian cops are as content to see the shit kicked out of them as white ones. What would you think? That was two enemy races, whites and Asians, ganging up on a third race, negro felon. 

Latino cops would be just as happy as Asians to team up with whites against negroes, trust me, they are natural enemies. I saw it happen, long ago, in that small scale hell hole Tampa. On a related note, that town was basically run by the mob, Trafficante, etc., hardly the special friends of ghetto negroes anywhere. Just think of the Italian Mafia as a special case of Thomas Sowell's middleman minorities, helpful in all ways.

No doubt, you don't believe me.

THE MENU

I mentioned making a home made port, with red wine, brandy, sugar.

A well considered improvement: dilute the red wine a little, easy on the sugar, keep the cognac at a fraction, one quarter or less, of the total. That makes a better, less tannic, but very flavorful port. You can mix red and white, but dilute this combination somewhat too.

I HAVEN'T BEEN TO MISSIPPI FOR OVER 50 YEARS

I don't plan ever to go back, for any reason whatsoever.

IT'S AWFULLY HARD TO QUARREL WITH VICTORY

Eisenhower

MUST BE CHARLIE'S ANGELS

L S LOWRY THE UNKNOWN

Thursday, August 27, 2020

L S LOWRY STAHL'S EAR HUNCHBACK FIGURES DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

RE LOWRY DRAWINGS PAINTINGS CONNECTIONS FLEDERMAUS DRACULA SPOCK

Lowry did several drawings which I stumbled on, one of which, of an unknown sitter of African descent, is at bottom.

On the reverse of this large sheet are several life drawing sketches of another, seemingly caucasian, sitter. This person has a hunchback. He also, in these drawings at least, has pointed, so-called Stahl ear deformity, Spock, Satyr, Vulcan, or perhaps bat, ears. (Fledermaus, as well as Dracula, were popular at that time, I believe.) I will insert an image of him with this post here.

These sitters, both the African sitter, and the hunchback with Spock ears, I believe are also shown at several points in other drawings and in later oil paintings. Here are some references:

Drawings Of L. S. Lowry, Mervin Levy, image number 8, seems to be this man, albeit with normal shaped ears. I believe that I have seen another image of this sitter, with the hair covering over his ears, but cannot find it among my reference books. 

Levy's book also contains an image of an Antique shop, image number 22, 1924, which may, possibly, show the same earlier African sitter, as the central tall figure in the foreground.

Regarding the early drawing of a hunckback sitter with pointed ears, refer to Shelley Rohde's book, L. S. Lowry, A Life, pages 216 a drawing, 186 a painting from 1949 and detail p. 239, for related images of a similar figure, now somewhat older, with hunchback, pointed ears. 

I have some highly detailed scanned images of the faint images for the hunchback figure, but they will not insert into the blog spot.