Charles Blackman Newspaper Man 1953 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Anonymous Canadian Artist Coronation Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II 1953 embroidered cotton cushion-cover Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
Denys Wortman Portrait of Thomas Hart Benton 1953 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
Deborah Remington Untitled (Apropos) 1953 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz Landscape 1953 oil on board Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
André-Charles Biéler Tourrettes-sur-Loup 1953 oil on canvas Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
Alberto Giacometti Still Life with Bottles 1953 oil on canvas Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
Weaver Hawkins Conversation 1953 oil on board Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
Leopoldo Méndez Posada in his Workshop 1953 linocut McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
Clare Leighton Sea Farms 1953 wood-engraving Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
Georges Braque Braque Graveur - Berggruen & Cie 1953 lithograph (poster) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
John Brack Men's-wear 1953 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Antonio Frasconi Weighing Fish 1953 color woodblock print Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
Robert Doisneau Anges et Poireaux 1953 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Frederic Varady Angry Woman wielding Chair 1953 gouache on board (magazine illustration) New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
Christian Dior Ballgown 1953 silk National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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To the encyclopedia of the Way,
Linguistic notes and scientific explanations,
And texts for schools with modernised spelling and illustrations.
Now everyone knows the hero must choose the old horse,
Abstain from liquor and sexual intercourse,
And look out for a stranded fish to be kind to:
Now everyone thinks he could find, had he a mind to,
The way through the waste to the chapel in the rock
For a vision of the Triple Rainbow or the Astral Clock,
Abstain from liquor and sexual intercourse,
And look out for a stranded fish to be kind to:
Now everyone thinks he could find, had he a mind to,
The way through the waste to the chapel in the rock
For a vision of the Triple Rainbow or the Astral Clock,
Forgetting his information comes mostly from married men
Who liked fishing and a flutter on the horses now and then.
Who liked fishing and a flutter on the horses now and then.
And how reliable can any truth be that is got
By observing oneself and then just inserting a Not?
– W.H. Auden (1940)