ELENA: Giace in Arcadia una placida valle...
FAUST:...Ivi insieme vivrem...
ELENA: E avrem per nido
le grotte delle ninfe,
e per guanciale...
FAUST: ...Le tue morbide chiome...
ELENA: ...E i fior del prato...
Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)
Image by Marcel Duchamp, "The Illuminating Gas"
1 comment:
I'm from Philly, where that Duchamp piece is actually on display. It's more of an uncanny valley, given the fact that you have to view the life-sized diorama like a peep show through a hole in a wooden door, and the woman's petit chat seems to be grafted on at an anatomically impossible angle.
Frankly, that work has always creeped me out. I'd rather go stare at a urinal.
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