Arthur Rimbaud in the Place Vendome

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Arthur Rimbaud: The Discovery of Two New Portraits of the Planetary Poet-laureate

I've been lucky to find two new portaits of the French rebel-poet, Rimbaud. Many experts worldwide have already voiced support saying that in these images they feel the presence of 'the man shod with the wind'. It's a historical fact that Rimbaud had a season as a Communard. Police records state that he belonged to the Paris Irregulars. Decide for yourself whether the poet of The Drunken Boat stands before us in the Place Vendome.

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Pablo Picasso Drawings

Arthur Rimbaud: Racing the Clock

The handsome renegade of the Place Vendome stands as tall as he can, franc-tireur incarnate. With his rifle-butt raised in his right hand and his bayonet pointing at God’s blue sky he challenges all the basic premises. Europe is going to hell and has to change. As poet and freedom-fighter he dreams of transformation. The free-state of Paris will show the rest of the world. A new order of cosmic socialism is coming.

An androgynous nineteenth-century Che Guevara glares nastily out of the Place Vendome, personally overseeing the destruction of the Imperial cosmos. We are looking at some ‘marvellous boy’ who has just masterminded the coup d’etat of all time. We are looking at the face of an angry demiurge really pissed at a substandard universe. (We don’t even really see the eyes but the black fire coming out of them is unmistakeable.) Black Fire, Freedom Fighters, Gentle Giant, Bob Dylan, Studio Portraits

Rimbaud: In Arthurian Country

An androgynous nineteenth-century Che Guevara glares nastily out of the Place Vendome, personally overseeing the destruction of the Imperial cosmos. We are looking at some ‘marvellous boy’ who has just masterminded the coup d’etat of all time. We are looking at the face of an angry demiurge really pissed at a substandard universe. (We don’t even really see the eyes but the black fire coming out of them is unmistakeable.)

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Derelict House

The Royal Albert Hall

Arthur Rimbaud: Love’s To Be

I have travelled with Arthur Rimbaud for many years. He changed my life in a supernatural manner when I wasin a dark place turning twenty. Two decades later I stood on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall in front of five-thousand people to recite the prologue of an epic poem which had taken twenty-three long years to write, years spent living on the streets of London, years spent meditating in derelict houses.

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Arthur Rimbaud: The Secret Police File

There is a famous sentence in a French police dossier of 1873: ‘Young Raimbault (sic) belonged, under the Commune, to the Paris Irregulars.’ There is nothing tentative about this statement, the file is clear: ‘young’ Rimbaud is accused of a crime against the state.