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Showing posts with label satyr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satyr. Show all posts
Friday, June 3, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Austin Osman Spare ... Ugly Ecstasy ...Satyr...
from the Book of Ugly Ecstasy 1924 - Fulgur 1996
it would be sentimental to say that the figures in Ugly Ectasy and Automatic Drawings
are happy despite theirhideous appearances....in the words of WH Audens poem, 'In Memory of Sigmund Freud' -
Down among the lost people like Dante, down
To the stinking fosse where the injured
Lead the ugly life of the rejected.
Nevertheless, Spare signed off Automatic Drawing on a defiant and innuendo-laden note: "Great is he who pleasures this difficult life," he wrote, and "He has found wisdom who knows how to spend"*
*Victorian euphemism for ejaculation.
excerpt from Austin Osman Spare - The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
by Phil Baker
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718)... Dream Alphabet ...1683
from my dream book! Alfabeto in Sogno (Dream Alphabet) by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli published in 1683
more here from what used to be a dreamy blog that inspired my interest in blogging, thankfully archives are still online.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
William Sharp, a.k.a. 'Fiona Macleod' & John Duncan...The Celtic Twilight
ETAIN
[Dreamily
I have heard. . . . I have dreamed. . . .I,
too, have heard,
Have sung . . . that song: O lordly ones that
dwell
In secret places in the hollow hills,
Who have put moonlit dreams into my mind
And filled my noons with visions, from afar
I hear sweet dewfall voices, and the clink,
The delicate silvery spring and clink
Of faery lances underneath the moon.
too, have heard,
Have sung . . . that song: O lordly ones that
dwell
In secret places in the hollow hills,
Who have put moonlit dreams into my mind
And filled my noons with visions, from afar
I hear sweet dewfall voices, and the clink,
The delicate silvery spring and clink
Of faery lances underneath the moon.
from the immortal hour by Fiona Macleod
an enjoyable paper on Sharp and Duncan and the Celtic Twilight
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Ex libris... R Koch...Satyr
from a good collection of Ex-libris that you can purchase at the Exlibris Artshop
previous > EX-LIBRIS
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Jean Gabriel Daragnes (French, 1886-1950)...Woodcuts...Satyr
two scans from a favourite book "The Modern Woodcut" by Herbert Furst
on one of my favourite obsessions... Le Satyre
Here illustrating Paul Claudel's "Protee"
Daragnes also illustrated Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" Gerard de Nerval's "Main Enchantee" and Poe's "Raven" to name a few
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..let there be darkness as I await my portion in which will be created from my soul the drop ready to fall in its greatest heaviness. Let me offer a libation to you in the shadows, like the mountain spring that offers drink to the Ocean in its little shell!
Paul Claudel
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Ex libris... Satyr
Leopold A. Chambliss - Bookplate was designed in 1928 by H.Hubert. The quotation is from The Revolt Of The Angels by Anatole France
Rev. Carl E. Peterson- was a bookplate collector. This exlibris was engraved in 1895 by Levy and company .The designer was Bessie Pease Gutmann who is better known for her illustrations of children.
from this great bookplate blog
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