Where is the love for Stanislav Szukalski?

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Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 15 August 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

No takers, huh?

Guess it's just me.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Saw the book "Behold, the Protong!" and read some of his stuff in the "Rants" book. It's interesting as outsider art, but he was kind of a screaming racist wasn't he? As I recall, anyone he disapproved of was descended from people who had had sex with yetis. Though perhaps I'm confusing him with Ayn Rand, I dunno.

Soukesian, Monday, 15 August 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, he had some rather un-pc and completely insane opinions, but, well, I don't throw away my Miles Davis records cause he was a wife-beating asshole, either.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Eugene von Bruenchenhein has to be my ultimate outsider art hero. Him and the Philadelphia Wireman.

Soukesian, Monday, 15 August 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

never heard of this dude, the netflix doc on him was good

johnny crunch, Friday, 15 March 2019 01:45 (seven years ago)

they dont overly dwell on early 30s nationalistic/anti-jew period or his yetisyny theory, but fairly, do address both;

johnny crunch, Friday, 15 March 2019 01:56 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

i had never heard of him & watched the Netflix doc last night

honestly i had a feeling that the nationalist shoe would drop at some point v early in the doc. you could just tell that would be a thing.

but it was really wild how Glenn Bray is like “well, he wasnt anti semitic around ME” … and part of me is thinking, ok but does he ~have~ to be? for his already documented antisemitism to be a problem for bray specifically? just those lines people are willing to draw for themselves. and being so enamored with the art

also they establish pretty effectively how compartmentalized szukalski was depending on the company he kept. i mean, maintaining such a close friendship w Hecht ffs.

it was weird to watch it all play out

plus Szukalski is just broadly fkn ~out there~ in general, like from the off! studying his dad’s corpse for anatomy reference? jesus. and the bizarre but unsettling theories on evolution, the Easter Island & yeto stuff… i dunno. it’s kooky yes but also super dark. like if they had said he was a eugenicist i wouldnt have been surprised

amazing sculptures & art for sure

but… jesus christ

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 16:36 (four years ago)

really good doc though

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 16:36 (four years ago)


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