From fishy unicorns and pre-Raphaelite wombats to Japanese folktales and Russian Walt Whitmans; from imperialist board games and Georgian toilet Twitter, to serpentine dances and Nadar’s catacombs; from socialist utopias and Victorian tripping to Pullman on Milton and pictures made by the vibrations of voice.
Such an interesting curation of topics. The essays are broadly different but most intersect one weird fascination that covers multiple art forms that cross into art, whether it is Japanese wood block printing, unicorns and Greenland (same essay for both) , relocated wombats, or Russian translations of Whitman that included interesting linoleum block printing.