""Boheme" <bohemian> belongs to the vocabulary in use around 1840. In the language of that time, it is synonymous with 'artist' or 'student' or 'pleasure seeker'"
Walter Benjamin 2002 The Arcade Project pg. 585
"Baudeliare, in the section, "Les Femmes et les Filles" <Women and Prostitutes> in his essay on Guys, cites the word of La Bruyere: "Some women possess an artificial nobility which is associated with a movement of the eye, a tilt of the head, a manner of deportment, and which goes no further""
Walter Benjamin 2002 The Arcade Project pg. 696
Materials and Techniques: Cyantype image (still from short film On Longing) on cotton fabric
Size: 18cm x 27cm
Date: April 2021
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