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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
My Drawings ... Vowed Series 2 & 4
Dolorosa - Vowed Series No. 2 2010
Dolorosa - Vowed Series No. 4 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Unica Zürn...excerpts from The House of Illnesses...part 2
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Works of Art...phallic amulet....
Privately commissioned made in Italy circa 1950's
Monday, September 13, 2010
Austin Osman Spare... drawings & paintings
in the anticipation of attending the exhibition of the year
at the Cuming Museum in London, here are a few Spare treats! Idiocy - Automatic Drawing
As above so below, this is never sufficiently realized. . . . Remorse? Nay, do unto thyself all things, fearlessly. Finality is reached when ye have learned to digest everything. What is all man-slaughter but what ye have done unto yourself? Only where there is necessity is ther death. Dispense with all 'means' to an end. There is nothing higher than joyous sensation. Eternal Self! these millions of bodies I have outworn! Oh, sinister ecstasy. I am thy vicious self pleasure that destroyeth all things. Distrust thy teacher, for 'divine truth' has prevented better men from wisdom. In such revelation there is no suggestion. Do thy utmost unto others: But be surely what thou wilt: and keep thy belief free of morality. Observe thyself by sensation: thus know the finer perturbations and vibrations. This much shalt thou learn: To love all men, for there will be compulsion.
from The Focus of Life ~ AOS
previous AOS POSTS
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven...poems...
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Rose O'Neill...drawing...Sweet monsters...
“I am in love with magic and monsters,
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
more at Rose O'Neill org
Friday, September 3, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Voudon Paper Cuts.... the Magick Art of Hagen von Tulien
Dark Illuminations ~ Paper Cut 2010
Société ~ Paper Cut 2010
From Beyond ~ Paper Cut 2010
Vignette ~ Ink on paper 2010
all works © copyright by Hagen von Tulien
Hagen von Tuliens Official Myspace
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Ex Libris... Fritz Mock... Satyr
Fritz Mock -1914
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.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Austin Osman Spare... Satyr
from
The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare 1927-1956
The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare 1927-1956
by William Wallace
"I am the Living Lie. In a World of Lies it is necessary to create reality" Satyros in Stroud 1924
Satyros at Stroud, 1924
"The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes. Not by obscuring his vision and intention by righteousness."
from the Book of Pleasure - The psychology of ecstasy-
Austin Osman Spare
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
D'AUREVILLY Barbey...What never dies ...
from D'AUREVILLY Barbey — What Never Dies. A romance. Translated from the French by Sebastian Malmoth (Oscar Wilde). 1928. Privately Printed
illustrated by Donald Denton
Labels:
D'AUREVILLY Barbey,
dandies,
Donald Denton,
illustrators,
Oscar Wilde,
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
To whom it may concern... Harry Crosby...
Friday, August 20, 2010
Bayardi (Ottavio Antonio) ... 1752
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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