Andrew Hodgson

The archives of post-war English surrealism in my living room

Ted Joans and Dorothea Tanning at the Pompidou

Psychic Topographies at Profil, Paris Documentation of Psychic Topographies at Profil, Paris is available at Contemporary Art Library.

Here is a throwback to an exhibition I curated some months ago, when I had forgotten Bluesky existed.

It was called « Psychic Topographies » and took place at Profil Galerie, Paris.

www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/psyc...

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The visuality of the French parliament is weirdly incongruous, like the Janus that adorns the speaker’s podium that often denotes deception and untruths, this face looking out from within a face, and also these cool Pierre Alechinsky and Jean Tardieu crayon walls

And, you’re very welcome

Nordau attended the same lectures by Charcot on « dégénérescence » that Freud did, and that inspired Salomonsen in Denmark

… and ophthalmologists were specialists in all sorts of things that would not be seen as their concern today)

(Or rather, the answer is something along the lines of - before the proper understanding of bacteria, it was known lots of things can be transmitted via the eye, like f. eks. diseases, but it wasn’t understood how. And so ophthalmology was a very very wide-ranging discipline…

New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness Over the years 1919–20, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new “epidemic” that had begun to affect the...

Well, you are in luck! As I translated and published the texts discussing contagious ophthalmic psychosis from this research as a book last year! It is here :

new-documents.org/books/new-fo...

Rather than turkey and that, this year for Xmas dinner consumed various crustaceans and gastropods

Here is a link to the article:

muse.jhu.edu/article/947733

The article is the critical counterpart to the book I published in 2023 titled « New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness » - the book can be viewed here: new-documents.org/books/new-fo...

After much digging in archives in Scandinavia, my article on how modernist art and literature has sent you all insane is in the new issue of @mmodernity.bsky.social

It is called: « A Contagious Ophthalmic Psychosis: Carl Julius Salomonsen and the Epidemic of Artistic Modernism in Europe, 1919–20 »

Screaming objects at the Halle Saint Pierre

Some light encouragement on the last day of semester

Down to business

I believe you are quite right!

Office with a view

The most terrible thing about living in France is that they’ve never heard of orange cordial

Some bottled dodo remnants

A hidden wall of Leonor Finis

One for the modernism heads out there

Does anybody need a copy of « Da Vinci Code » by Dan Brown, possibly in the original English though possibly not?