Victor Brown.... bookplate for Lily Yeats

from Poems by WB Yeats, Cuala Press 1935

"There's nothing but our own red blood

Can make a right Rose Tree..."

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The Angel of Death ... in micrography...

This illustration is found in a book entitled Nisyonot be-Ketav Ivri (Experiments in Hebrew Script)

a magnificent example of micrography, tiny Hebrew script marking out the shape of a figure, in this case a classic portrayal of the Angel of Death. In this particular example the script is in Hebrew yet the language is German. The many signed names would indicate that this was done in Central Europe, probably in a school of the German Haskalah (Enlightenment) movement, around the middle of the 19th century.

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.

Ex libris...Eugen Dorr

Leonor Fini... etching 1957

The Witches' Sabbath Resurrected

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Herbert Grass...Thoughts on Love and Religion 1912

Ex Libris... P Wolbrand

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...

Suniti Namjoshi ...poem excerpts

Theres sunshine in the garden

there are flowers in the hall

at your gate a lovesick beast

is breaking down the wall...

from poem ~ Courtship

Why did you make a hole in the sky,
Breaking the backdrop of placid blue days?
The black crow are flapping wildly in my head
While the blue air has closed about your absence.
from poem ~ In Three Tenses



Suniti Namjoshi

Hans Bellmer...print.... undated

"At the source of the most intensely black and scandalous works...we believe there exists this sort of passage from passion to action, a secret need for equilibrium, the urge to create an imaginary evil from which we may take pleasure within the excesses of intellectual passion, in order to cure ourselves of the real evil we're suffering"

from Scandal with a Secret Face - an Essay by Nora Mitrani 1950

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