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Showing posts with label woodcuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodcuts. Show all posts
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Liv Rainey-Smith... Woodcuts ... Satyr
Shub ~ The Early Years © Liv Rainey-Smith
"Shub-Niggurath" ~ 2008 © Liv Rainey-Smith
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Christoph Krieger ... Woodcut 1590
from
De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due . . . (Of Ancient and Modern Dress of Diverse Parts of the World in Two Books . . .), 1590
Cesare Vecellio (Italian, ca. 1521–1601)
Cesare Vecellio (Italian, ca. 1521–1601)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Lynd Ward... Mad Man's Drum.. Part 1
a few scans from one of my favourite artists, and one of the finest wood engravers of the twentieth century ..
Mad Man Drum ~ A Novel in Woodcuts
Monday, December 20, 2010
Eric William Ravilious(1903-1942)... Woodcut
Doctor Faustus Conjuring Mephistophilis 1929
Ravilious was a prolific British illustrator and worked predominantly with wood engravings. The subject for this work relates to the 16th century medical practitioner, Dr. Johannes Faust who, legend has it, sold his soul to Mephistopheles, an evil spirit.
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
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Books ...Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz....
Modernly known as In honorem sanctae crucis, this work on the holy cross by Rabanus Maurus (a.k.a. Hrabanus Maurus) was completed by 814 and through the manuscript and early printing era it was known under the title of De Laudibus sancte Crucis. The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History says that “with this work Hrabanus paved the way to fill the theoretical gap left open by the previous debates in the East and West about the legitimacy of visual images.”
And visual this work certainly is: It contains 30 carmina figurata (2 unnumbered and 28 numbered) glorifying the holy cross and two xylographic illustrations. The cataloguer at the Pierpont Morgan Library writes that the “Illustrations (pattern or figure poems) are in red and black, sometimes complete woodcuts, sometimes woodcut with letterpress. Various poetic texts can be derived from the resulting configurations. Explanatory text and a transcript of the poem complements each illustration.” The archbishop's work ranks among the earliest examples of printed concrete poetry. And, because his poems are encrypted in a grid of 36 lines each containing 36 letters, this also is an early work in the field of cryptology.
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