David Lomas

the myth of Narcissus in surrealist and contemporary art

Narcissus reflected

Helmut Zander

Pascal Rousseau

A Pioneer of Abstraction

Hilma Af Klint

D. R. Jacobsen

Encourages Christians to reconsider what they believe defines them and discover the core identity and grand truth of who God created them to be.

Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

The Truest Thing About You

Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), an artist whose work is still far too unknown to a wider public, eschewed representational painting as early as 1906. Between 1906 and 1915 she produced nearly two hundred abstract paintings, some of which are in monumental formats. Like Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Kazimir Malevich, who have previously been regarded as the main protagonists of abstract art, Hilma af Klint was influenced by contemporary spiritual movements, such as spiritism, theosophy, and anthroposophy. Her multifaceted imagery strives to provide insight into the different dimensions of existence, where microcosm and macrocosm reflect one another. Hilma af Klint left more than one thousand paintings, watercolors, and sketches. This publication presents her most important abstract works as well as paintings and works on paper that have never before been seen in public, enhancing our understanding of her oeuvre. (English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3489-9) Exhibition schedule: Moderna Museet, Stockholm February 16-May 26, 2013 - Hamburger Bahnhof -Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, June 15-October 6, 2013 - Musée Picasso, Malaga October 21, 2013-February 9, 2014

There are many true things about you—true things you use to build an identity. Parent. Introvert. Victim. Student. Extrovert. Entrepreneur. Single. These truths can identify you, your successes and failures, your expectations and disappointments, your secret dreams and hidden shames. But what if your true identity isn't found in any of these smaller truths, but in the grand truth of who God says you are? In other words, lots of things are true about you—but are they the truest? David Lomas invites you to discover and live out the truth of who God created you to be: you are loved, you are accepted, and you are made in God's image. It's time to move beyond the lesser voices and discover why everything changes when you become who you really are.

The Truest Thing about You

Just before her death in 1944 at the age of 81, the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint stipulated that her paintings were not to be publicly exhibited for 20 years. In fact, another 40-plus years were to pass before inklings of her vast oeuvre began to reach public consciousness, with the landmark 1987 exhibition and book The Spiritual in Art. Since then, critics, artists and historians have praised her with ever-increasing awe, and today af Klint's paintings, watercolors and sketches--numbering over 1,000 in total--have never looked so contemporary, presaging as they do the works of Beatriz Milhazes, Elizabeth Murray and Tal R., and Agnes Martin, Emma Kunz and Arthur Dove before them. For af Klint herself, as a medium for an art she was despairingly unable to comprehend, contemporaneity was irrelevant: her work--much of which was dictated by a spirit guide named Ananda--unfolded in complete ignorance of Kandinsky, Malevich or Mondrian, who likewise practised an abstraction informed by theosophy and occult philosophy. Af Klint's abstractions preceded those of Kandinsky, who is usually credited with inventing abstract painting: as early as 1906, she was devising large-scale canvases filled with grids, circles, spirals and petal-like forms--sometimes diagrammatic, sometimes biomorphic. She was painting watercolor monochromes in 1916, and making automatic drawings long before the Surrealists. This monumental 280-page monograph, with 200 color plates, is the first full Hilma af Klint overview. A landmark publication, it not only reveals the moving lucidity of her art, but challenges the narrative of abstract art in the twentieth century.

Lana Laland

THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY FAMED FETISH ARTIST DAVID LOMASWhat did I want for my birthday? I confessed my secret to my wife: "I want to be little," I said."You want to be belittled?" she asked."I want to be little and be belittled.""You want me to transform you into an adult baby?""An adult baby girl in diapers, please!"Alice howled."Perfect," she said."What?" I stammered."It fits right in with my plan.""What plan?""Me, my two sisters, my mother, and your mother have been scheming behind your back. We know exactly what to do with you.""You will put me in diapers for a day?""Yes! Diapers and dresses.""For the whole day?""Longer. Much longer.""A week?""Longer.""How long?""Indefinitely.""Impossible. Are you going to care for me around the clock: change me, dress me, feed me, discipline me?""Hell, no, Emerson. I do have a life, you know.""I'm confused, Alice. What is your plan?""Well, you know how much your mother and I have become great pals?""Yes.""And you know how she has turned over her seat on the board of directors of several nonprofit groups to me.""Yes? And so?""One of those groups is the asylum Creative Reintroduction of Infantile Behavior.""The C.R.I.B.?""Yes, Emerson. The CRIB. Your mother is a founding sponsor. You will be taken there and locked up in an area called the Play Pen Prison."I gulped.Was this what I really wanted?This story is intended for adults 18 years of age and older. It involves adult babies, age play, diapers, regression, cross-dressing, feminization, femdom, discipline, bondage, spanking, sexual situations, humiliation and taunting, teasing and twists

Play Pen Prisoners

Crib XVI

In the autumn of 1914 the original British Expeditionary Force faced a heavily reinforced German drive. Field Marshal Sir John French, the British Commander-in-Chief, had sent his men north in an attempt to take the fight into Flanders, so they could fight across open ground. History tells us that this was not to be the case. David Lomas chronicles the first of the trench-warfare battles, where lines that would remain almost static for the rest of the war were established. Although the Germans failed to reach the channel ports, the death knell had rung for the BEF, which was virtually wiped out in this brave defence.

The graveyard of the Old Contemptibles

First Ypres 1914

When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF – 'that contemptible little army' – would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose excellent marksmanship cost the closed packed German ranks dear. Eventually forced to fall back by overwhelming German numbers, the British carried out a masterful fighting retreat across Belgium and northern France. At Mons, nine and a half British battalions held four German divisions at bay for an entire day. This book examines not just the battle of Mons itself but also the ensuing British retreat including the actions at Le Cateau and Villers-Cotterêts.

The BEF's Tactical Triumph

Mons 1914

I used to be billionaire Wallace W. Wadsworth IV.Not anymore.I am Womb Number 3.I am a human slug in a rubber cocoon: bound, gagged and helpless.If I'm good, they say, I may emerge someday as Baby Wiggles: a newborn girl in diapers, colorful plastic panties, froufrou dresses and frilly bonnets.But for now I am just an embryo. I cannot see. I cannot speak. I cannot touch. I can barely hear. I am completely at the mercy of others for all my needs.It's all my mistake. I let things get out of control.I've always had fantasies about being an adult baby, dominated and degraded.I designed and built my own nursery. And when my wife ignored my needs, I hired other women to come to our mansion and indulge me.One day, my wife decided to take control. But not in the way I hoped.I should have been suspicious when she got me to dress in diapers and dainties. But I played along. I let her fetter and gag me. Stupid me! Before I knew it, I was being shipped off to The Asylum for the Creative Reintroduction of Infantile Behavior (CRIB). What a cruel twist!I have long been an advocate of diversion programs for scoundrels, slackers, and hooligans. That's why, at my wife's urging, I created a foundation to underwrite the entire construction and operation of CRIB.That's right! I'm paying for the whole darn asylum!Now I am its captive.I have been diapered, dressed in humiliating toddler outfits, forced fed, chained up, spanked, caned, and caged. I have had to crawl, to beg for punishment, and to surrender control completely.But there is a bright side.I am smitten.I have finally found a woman who understands.She likes being an adult baby, too. Her alphabet blocks -- like mine -- spell out ABDL, DDLG, and BDSM.We could baby one another.I'd love it.She'd love it.We've talked about it. We've embraced it. We would be together right now if it wasn't for that one terrific yet terrifying moment that changed everything.Will I see her again?Will she want me?Will I still be worth loving?I don't know.I'm here in The Womb.I am completely in the dark about the future.This book is intended for a mature readership 18 years of age and older.

The Asylum for the Creative Reintroduction of Infantile Behavior

The Crib

Scott Weiss

Edwin Silverman

Steven Shapiro

There has been a recent explosion of knowledge in the field of respiratory genetics. This authoritative text brings together current knowledge in respiratory genetics in a single volume. The book includes a comprehensive introductory section to provide guidance and aid understanding of key basic concepts in respiratory genetics, including statistical methods, sample collection, bioinformatics, and functional genomics. This is followed by a series of disease-specific chapters that review epidemiology, natural history, monogenic determinants, complex disease components, disease management, and likely future developments. Respiratory Genetics is an essential reference for pulmonologists, translational researchers, and clinical geneticists, and the text will also be a useful library reference.

Respiratory Genetics

Lana LaLand

WITH 12 AMAZING DRAWINGS BY RENOWN ARTIST DAVID LOMAS.My girlfriend Sissy and I always spend the last 12 days of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Why? The parades. The food. The drink. The bare boobs and beads. But beyond the raunchy revelry, we indulge in our greatest fantasy: public role-play. She is always the Dom. I am always the submissive. Our roles so far this season:--the cruel whip warden and her manacled and muted prisoner.--the strict governess and her breast-feeding adult baby girl.--the stern nurse and her straitjacketed and diapered psychopath.--the crop-wielding, leather-wearing equestrian and her harnessed and bit-gagged pony boy.--the red rubber Amazon and her muzzled Great Dane. In costume, I often get disciplined to the cheers and jeers of the masses. A sea of smart phones record my every humiliation. Bacchanals queue to pose with us. They tease me. They fondle me. They even get to punish me - much to Sissy's arousal. The cops merely watch and waive. My girl Sissy is beautiful AND brilliant. She is an upscale fetish costume designer. She teams with several of her old sorority sisters from Kappa Beta Whappa - all high-end, hi-tech kink entrepreneurs in their own right -- to make jaw-dropping originals.Sissy has made me a promise: "You, slave, will be the most photographed costumer on Fat Tuesday, the last day of Mardi Gras. Your image will travel worldwide. And I will be right by your side, controlling your every moment."What does she have in store for me?Well, dear reader, let me just say this -- I will be the Belle of the Bawl: Muzzled, Manacled and Mincing on Mardi Gras.This story is intended for adults 18 years of age and older. It involves cross-dressing, femdom, discipline, bondage, spanking, age play, regression, diapers, sexual situations, humiliation and taunting, teasing and twists.

Muzzled, Manacled and Mincing on Mardi Gras

Belle of the Bawl

"The question, 'Who am I?' resounded throughout the surrealist movement. The exploration of dreams and the unconscious prompted surrealists to reject the notion of a unified, indivisible self by revealing the subject to be haunted by otherness and instability. In this book David Lomas explores the surrealist concepts of the self and subjectivity from a psychoanalytic viewpoint. Employing a series of case studies devoted to individual artists, Lomas arrives at a radically new account of surrealist art and its cultural and intellectual roots." "Weaving together psychoanalytic and historical material, the author analyses works by Ernst, Dali, Masson, Miro and Picasso with regard to such themes as automatism, hysteria, the uncanny and the abject. Lomas focuses closely on individual artworks, examines the specific circumstances in which they were produced and offers new insights into the artists and their projects as well as the theories of Bataille, Breton and others. Lomas demonstrates the powerful connection between the history of psychoanalysis and the history of surrealism, and along the way shows the unique value of psychoanalytic theory as a tool for the art historian."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity

The Haunted Self

Michael Corris

John Dixon Hunt

A highly illustrated survey of the use of words (or language) in art. Art, Word and Image asks what it means when a painting is 'invaded' by language - how do the two forms converse and combine, and what messages are intended for the viewer?

David Lomas

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