from the series Order and Chaos - Compass rose ~ 1955
This special edition of lithographs where intended to be presented to the members of the Masonic Order in Holland, the Knights of Templar.
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The Story of the Eye ...Andre Masson..book cover
Cover sketch for George Bataille's Story of the Eye - first edition 1928 - André Masson
"And it struck me that death was the sole outcome of my erection, and if Simone and I were killed, then the universe of our unbearable personal vision was certain to be replaced by the pure stars, fully unrelated to any external gazes and realizing in a cold state, without human delays or detours, something that strikes me as the goal of my sexual licentiousness: a geometric incandescence (among other things, the coinciding point of life and death, being and nothingness), perfectly fulgurating..."
George Bataille's Story of the Eye
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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)
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