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| Barnett Newman Canto II 1963-64 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Barnett Newman Canto XVII 1963-64 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Barnett Newman Canto XV 1963-64 lithograph Tate Gallery |
from canto 33 of the Paradiso
As I drew nearer to the end of all desire,
I brought my longing's ardor to a final height,
Just as I ought. My vision, becoming pure,
Entered more and more the beam of that high light
That shines on its own truth. From then, my seeing
Became too large for speech, which fails at a sight
Beyond all boundaries, at memory's undoing –
As when the dreamer sees and after the dream
The passion endures, imprinted on his being
Though he can't recall the rest. I am the same:
Inside my heart, although my vision is almost
Entirely faded, droplets of its sweetness come
The way the sun dissolves the snow's crust –
The way, in the wind that stirred the light leaves,
The oracle that the Sibyl wrote was lost.
– Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky
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| John Hoyland Reds Greens 1969 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| John Hoyland Blues Greens 1969 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| John Hoyland Blues Reds 1969 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| Josef Albers White Line Square IV 1966 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Robyn Denny [no title] 1969 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| Barnett Newman Canto IX 1963-64 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Barnett Newman Canto VII 1963-64 lithograph Tate Gallery |
from Canto CXV
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one's friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide's change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
– Ezra Pound
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| Jim Dine Palette II 1969 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Brushstroke 1965 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| Bengt Lindström Red Man 1968 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Pierre Celice Red Studio 1969-70 lithograph Tate Gallery |