Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Suniti Namjoshi ....Building Babel..The Black Piglet
from Building Babel by Suniti Namjoshi
Every retelling of a myth is a reworking of it. Every hearing or reading of a myth is a recreation of it. It is only when we engage with a myth that it resonates, becomes charged and recharged with meaning...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Hermann Naumann...the Temptation of St Anthony...
Illustration for The Temptation of St. Anthony 1965
"O bliss! bliss! I have seen the birth of life; I have seen the
beginning of motion. The blood beats so strongly in my veins that it
seems about to burst them. I feel a longing to fly, to swim, to bark, to
bellow, to howl. I would like to have wings, a tortoise-shell, a rind,
to blow out smoke, to wear a trunk, to twist my body, to spread myself
everywhere, to be in everything, to emanate with odours, to grow like
plants, to flow like water, to vibrate like sound, to shine like light,
to be outlined on every form, to penetrate every atom, to descend to the
very depths of matter--to be matter!"
The Temptation of St. Anthony or A Revelation of the Soul -
Gustave Flaubert
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Julius Klinger... Sodom...1909
Julius Klinger - illustration for Sodom or The Quintessence of Debauchery by John Wilmot. 1909
previous Klinger
Monday, November 1, 2010
Tadanori Yokoo...Sublime images part 2
Some of my favourite images the wondrous work of Tadanori Yokoo illustration from Genka (“Illusory Flowers”), a historical novel by Harumi Setouchi.
a nice link to Yokoos poster works at the wondrous A Journey Round My Skull
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Birthday greetings...Aleister Crowley...
Aleister Crowley Self portrait 1920
October 12th 1875 - December 1st 1947
from Magick Without Tears 1954
"Lift yourselves up, my brothers and sisters of the earth! Put
beneath your feet all fears, all qualms, all hesitancies! Lift
yourselves up! Come forth, free and joyous, by night and day, to
do your will; for "There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt."
Lift yourlseves up! Walk forth with us in Light and Life and
Love and Liberty, taking our pleasure as Kings and Queens in
Heaven and on Earth."
from my favourite Crowley book!
Labels:
Aleister Crowley,
birthdays,
books,
magick,
Magick Without Tears,
occult,
writers
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Early Manuscripts... Latin Gospels...
Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century
from the Bodleian Library
Friday, September 24, 2010
The graphics works of Arthur Boyd (4 Jul 1920–24 Apr 1999) part 2
Arthur Boyd was one of Australia’s most widely respected and prolific artists. He was born in 1920 in Melbourne, Victoria and was part of a dynamic generation of artists and thinkers, which included Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, and Joy Hester. Boyd was brought up in a lively family of practicing artists, with whom he studied and developed his painting and printmaking.
My favourite of his pieces are collaborations with one of my favourite poets fellow Australian Peter Porter, whom he collaborated with on 4 books during 70s and 80s.
Jonah 1973, The Lady and the Unicorn 1975, Mars 1988 and
Narcissus 1984 ( images shown below)
Narcissus, Seckers & Warburg London 1984
"But what Arthur & I was trying to do in Narcissus was sort of turn upside & like the rest of us when you look in the water we are turned upside down. that we wanted to produce, of really really how the Natural world doesn't . . . we don't see ourselves in the Natural world. The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pilgrimage through us. "
Peter Porter
A wonderful collection of drawings and prints
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Unica Zürn...excerpts from The House of Illnesses...part 2
Friday, September 10, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Maurice Scève (1501-c.1560)...Delie ...Emblems of Desire 1544
Delie object de plus hault vertu was first published in 1544 in Lyon by Sulpice Sabon for the bookseller, Antoine Constantin. The subsequent 1564 edition, published in Lyon by Nicolas Du Chemin, follows the first edition closely, but moves the initial huitain (“A SA DELIE”) to the very end of the volume and includes an index of figures and first lines. The woodcut figures present significant changes from one edition to the other. The Délie has a mathematical layout; many suggestions have been made about its significance and about the relationship between text and image inasmuch as this work has a visual and spatial component. The Délie is composed of one decasyllabic huitain (an epigram of eight lines of verse), 449 decasyllabic dizains (epigrams of ten lines of verse), fifty woodcut emblems (each with a motto and a figure, surrounded by an ornamental border) which appear at regular intervals.
Paris : Nicolas du Chemin, 1564.
Scève’s Délie is a syncretic work, which bears the mark of the poet’s erudition and high concept of poetry. The work conveys the thoughts and feelings of a lover suffering from unrequited love and striving for perfection. Throughout the Délie, love is an obsessive and complex experience in which the sacred and the profane are intertwined. The question of Délie’s identity has tantalized critics; some have assimilated her to the Lyonnese poet Pernette Du Guillet, whose posthumous Rymes sometimes echo Scève’s Délie. La Croix du Maine, in contrast, saw the name “Délie” as the anagram of “L’Idée” (Idea), and stressed the Neo-platonic aspects of the lover’s quest. Yet, Délie eludes any attempt to define her; her composite persona combines references to Petrarch’s Rime Sparse and Petrarchan poetry, the Bible and Christian literature, classical texts and iconography, mythology, French and Neo-Latin sources. The concise quality of the dizains, and their convoluted syntax contribute to the complexity of this fascinating work.
from the Gordon Collection at the University of Virginia
* * *
43
The less i see her, the more i hate her:
The more i hate her, the less anger i feel.
The more i adore her, the less it means:
The more i flee her, the more i wish her near.
Love with hate & pleasure with pain,
The two arrows fall on me in a single rain.
And the love i great which thereby gains
As hate sinks in & cries out for revenge:
Thus my vain desire makes me detest
The one my heart so infallibly requests.
* * *
163
For this kindness let me at least commend you,
Of which i note both occasion & site
Where, all atremble, you heard me undo
This mortal knot into which my heart was tied.
I saw you, like me, now grown tired
Of my travail, more out of compassion
Than any sense of this great passion
I still feel, though less so than at the start.
For as you extinguished my affliction,
You secured this burnt offering of my heart.
* * *
Sunday, August 22, 2010
To whom it may concern... Harry Crosby...
Friday, August 20, 2010
Bayardi (Ottavio Antonio) ... 1752
Friday, August 6, 2010
The Sphinx...Oscar Wilde & Alastair...1920
Your lovers are not dead, I know;
They will rise up, and hear your voice,
And clash their cymbals, and rejoice,
And run to kiss your mouth, -- and so
Set wings upon your argosies!
more on the background of this book and other illustrators > THE SPHINX
previous Alastair posts L'Anniversaire de L'Infante
Labels:
Alastair,
books,
illustrations,
illustrator,
Oscar Wilde,
poems
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Andrew D. Chumbley... The Azoetia... excerpt...
The Assumption of the Azoetic Magical Self - Andrew d. Chumbley
By Arte enchant and fascinate the Portals to open, revealing those whom
the Stars veil. Sing out their Passion in the War and Feast that is Thy Self!
Taste ye of the sweet and secret wines of Heaven - the Ocean of Ichor
spilt from the broken idols of Gods and Demi-gods. Carouse ye with my
Satyrs and embrace the Succubi raised from Thine own Desires; swoon
ye in rapture, in the nimbus of fever billowing over the lily field of the
Night. Yet be not overcome! Fall not! Tire not of Pleasure, but seek ye
the Ever-virgin Joys that hide beneath Medusine Veils.
Amidst these blossoms cavort and dance!
1 cap! Your skin aflame in peacock-iridescence!
Your eyes like black fire at the heart of the storm!
For these are the Splendours of the Infinite, wrought in the Images and
Effiges of I
"Speaking for myself, books like Azoetia are mystical love-letters to stangers whom I would not otherwise meet. "ADC
Friday, July 30, 2010
Kitab al-Bulhan ...Book of Wonders...Part 2
Labels:
Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani,
books,
Kitab al-Bulhan,
manuscripts
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