In the Parisian Prostitutes series we met la gigolette. (” …She is the mistress of the garroters of La Vilette or the stabbers of Grenelle. She it is who beguiles the pa…
Everyone hates hipsters. Yet we won't stop buying iconic "hipster" accessories, like fixed-gear bikes, vinyl records, and Buddy Holly glasses. As these pr...
" La Danse Apache " 50x65 cm crayon noir
Французские открытки, иллюстрирующие образ апашей — парижской шпаны конца XIX века.
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Two ‘Apache’ dancers hanging out in a cafe in Paris in 1938. I’m going to roll the clock back to my earliest recollection of seeing what was essentially a version of the “Apache” dance that was featured on, of all things one of the original installments of the Popeye the Sailor cartoon series that I saw on TV as a child during the 1970s. The short in question was the seventeenth ever produced, in 1934, called “The Dance Contest.” In it Popeye and his gangly girlfriend Olive Oyl enter a dance contest which of course Popeye’s nemesis Bluto attempts to disrupt. When Bluto finally gets his chance dance with Olive he recklessly and abusively hurls her around—much in the style of an Apache dance. Naturally, Popeye is having none of that and after downing a can of his famous spinach, he takes over the lead dancer role with Bluto who he then essentially beats to a pulp while his famous theme plays out in the background. The cartoon itself, as you may recall, was already notoriously violent so it made perfect sense to incorporate one of the most popular and viciously aggressive dance crazes of the time into...
Before the second world war, filled with the wandering souls of the “Lost Generation,” Paris throbbed with the fluttering notes of jazz and the clattering of horse hooves on cobblestone…
