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| William Blake Oberon, Titania, and Puck, with Fairies Dancing ca. 1786 watercolor Tate Gallery |
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| Jonas Åkerström A Frieze of Dancing Antique Figures in a Bacchanal ca. 1788-95 drawing (made in Rome) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Francesco Zuccarelli Three Dancing Nymphs and a Satyr 1788 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Antonio Zucchi Three Dancing Nymphs and Reclining Cupid in a Landscape ca. 1772 oil on paper, mounted on plaster ceiling-roundel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Léonard Defrance The Rope Dance ca. 1780 oil on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The Lion Tamer Remembers
look at me and be color
later
your laugh eats sun for hares for chameleons
squeeze my body between two thick lines let famine be light
sleep sleep do you see we are heavy blue antelope on a glacier ear in the stones lovely frontiers – hear the stone
old fisherman cold tall on new letter learn the girls in iron wire and sugar turn a long time the bottles are tall like white parasols listen roll roll red
in the colonies
memory odor of a clean pharmacy old servant
green horse and cereals
horn cry
flute
baggage obscure menageries
bite saw do you want
horizontal to see
– Tristan Tzara, translated from French by Mary Ann Caws
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| James Barry A Grecian Harvest Home 1792 etching, engraving Tate Gallery |
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| Giovanni Domenico Ferretti Sketch for Ceiling Decoration with Mars, Minerva, and Dancing Satyr ca. 1720-30 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg Dancing Violinist and Dancing Dogs ca. 1755-71 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
I Don't Speak
I don't speak for myself,
I don't speak in my name,
it's not a question of me.
I'm nothing but
a little life, a lot of pride.
I speak for all that is,
in the name of all that has form and no form.
It's a question of all that weighs
and all that's weightless.
I know that everything that surrounds me
longs to go further, to live more intensely,
to die more fully, if dying
is what must be done.
Don't think you hear inside you
the words and the voice of Guillevic.
It's the voice of the present moving towards the future,
the voice of the present sounding from under the skin.
– Eugène Guillevic, translated by Denise Levertov
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Satyrs' Dance 1763 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| William Hogarth The Dance ca. 1745 oil on canvas (sketch for finished composition) Tate Gallery |
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| Matthew Darly (publisher) Boarding School Education, or, the Frenchifiied Young Lady 1771 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| Laurentius Russinger for Höchst Manufactory The Dancing Lesson ca. 1760 porcelain Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Franz Anton Bustelli for Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory Harlequin and Harlequina ca. 1760 porcelain Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Johann Friedrich Lück for Höchst Manufactory Figure of Female Dancer ca. 1758 porcelain Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
– translated poems from The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, edited by Mary Ann Caws (2004)