#Parsifal

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The Apparition of the Grail to Percival, Pinckney Marcius-Simons, ca. 1904

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Illustrations from Richard Wagner's Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail by Willy Pogany (1912)

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Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916), Parsifal, 1892. Lithograph on China paper applied to vellum, image 32.2 x 24.3 cm.; plate 52 x 40 cm. 50 copies printed by Becquet in Paris

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Parsifal: Flower Maiden "Veilchen" Costume. Heinrich Lefler, 1914. From The New York Public Library.

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Parsifal in Quest of the Holy Grail by Ferdinand Leeke

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Parsifal no. 1, Hilma Af Klint

Here, time turns into space

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Willy Pogany. Illustration of Richard Wagner’s "Parsifal".

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Parsifal on the Way to the Grail Castle by Ferdinand Leeke

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Willy Pogany

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Iŀlustració de Willy Pogany per a una edició de Parzival, de Wolfram von Eschenbach, 1912.

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Ethel Cain: 'i love feeling bad from time to time' / Roland Barthes: 'Where there is a wound, there is a subject'

Parsifal: The wound I saw bleeding now bleeds in me

Ethel Cain: "i love feeling bad from time to time, i always just fully lean into it. when i was a kid i’d chew holes inside my cheeks while i read at night until they’d bleed and then i’d have horrible sores that would ache for days afterwards, but sometimes i’d bite the sores between my teeth and make them hurt even worse because when i let go, for a moment they wouldn’t hurt at all. i think life as a whole is kind of like that."

Roland Barthes: "Where there is a wound, there is a subject: 'The wound! The wound!' says Parsifal (Richard Wagner), thereby becoming 'himself'; and the deeper the wound, at the body's center (at the 'heart'), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy ('The wound … is of a frightful intimacy'). Such is love's wound : a radical chasm (at the 'roots' of being) , which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining." (Roland Barthes, Fragments of a Lover's Discourse, OC V, 234)

VIDEO: Ethel Cain - Famous Last Words

Ethel Cain

Parsifal (Jonas Kaufmann, The Metropolitan Opera)

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Joseph Urban (1872-1933), 'Titurel's Vision', ''Parsifal'', 1920 Source

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Title Page from Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail by Willy Pogany (1912)

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Parsifal (1982) directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is now available! Check out genderfluid Percy!

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ODILON REDON / "PARSIFAL" / c. 1912 [pastel drawing | 66 x 52 cm.]

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Parzival by Fidus