Pigs carried on the shoulders of swineherds…
Lovely Day for a Guinness! Join the pigs and me for one… Guinness for strength. Guinness is good for you.
Representation
Discussions on the symbolic and literal use of pigs in areas such as fashion, ornamentation and utilitarian objects, as well as design, art, advertising and fashion.
Lords of Lard, part 1
An overview of N.K. Fairbank & Co.’s pig-themed trade card advertising in the late 19th century U.S. The Porkopolis Art Museum recently added some examples of late nineteenth century advertising trade cards to its collection. These cards, advertising lard and featuring pigs, were created for the N.K. Fairbank Co. as advertisements for their household lard … Read more
Blicky Leech and the Christmas Pig
I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,” said the Spirit. ” Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before! — The Ghost of Christmas Present from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Here is a Dickensian name for a Dickens illustrator. The artist John Leech, aka: “Blicky” to his friends, is … Read more
Poetry Updates for April 2010
In the Porkopolis.org Library, poetry updates for mid-April include: an eccentric Anglican; a moveable feast; diction adapted to a certain class of readers; lawyers, not pigs in time of famine; hogs and men hunted and penned in an inglorious spot; and lastly, perpetual promises, but to no good ends. The poet Robert Peters discusses Gyp, … Read more
Russell, Gregory, Yeats and the Black Pig
A new work of art has been added to the Porkopolis.org Art Museum. For me it is also the point of departure for considering how friends might utilize humor as a tension reliever and a coping mechanism for momentarily dispelling their concerns over the consequential matters that embroiled their days. Here, the humor employed is sarcasm and the implementation is through a humorous drawing of a pig and bit of doggerel.