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| Paul Gauguin L'Univers est crée (Creation of the universe) 1893-94 woodcut Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Paul Gauguin L'Univers est crée (Creation of the universe) 1893-94 color woodcut British Museum |
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| Paul Gauguin Mahna no Varua Ino (The Devil speaks) 1893-94 woodcut British Museum |
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| Paul Gauguin Auti te Pape (Women at the river) 1893-94 woodcut with stencil coloring British Museum |
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| Paul Gauguin Te Atua (The Gods) 1893-94 color woodcut British Museum |
Tahiti Trot
We close in on ourselves,
then yelp that the world is awry.
If one person could see his (or her)
reflection outlined in the mirror
the last knot would come untied,
the great ship slip into the depths
of the Atlantic Ocean. Who told you
to say that? Why have you come here?
We need more people like you
to tell us what we're not like. True,
aging would get lost in the process.
We'd be sitting on the grass like young
idiots, involved in some personal spell
when the boiler exploded. You'd say
"I can't get over that hat," and I,
pretending not to understand, would say,
"Can I get you anything?"
– John Ashbery (1993)
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| Blair Hughes-Stanton A Man Died (tribute to D.H. Lawrence, marking his recent death) 1930 wood-engraving British Museum |
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| Blair Hughes-Stanton Figures in cemetery (illustration to Erewhon by Samuel Butler for Gregynog Press) 1932 wood-engraving British Museum |
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| Blair Hughes-Stanton The Brothers (illustration to Milton's Comus for Gregynog Press) 1931 wood-engraving British Museum |
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| Blair Hughes-Stanton Pastoral III (illustration to Four Poems by Milton for Gregynog Press) 1932 wood-engraving British Museum |
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| Blair Hughes-Stanton Zephir with Aurora (illustration to Four Poems by Milton for Gregynog Press) 1932 wood-engraving British Museum |
from Comus: A Masque
Second Brother:
How charming is divine Philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Elder Brother:
List! list! I hear
Some far-off hallo break the silent air.
Second Brother:
Methought so too; what should it be?
Elder Brother:
For certain,
Either some one like us night-foundered here,
Or else some neighbour woodman, or, at worst,
Some roving robber calling to his fellows.
Second Brother:
Heaven keep my sister! Again, again and near!
Best draw, and stand upon our guard.
Elder Brother:
I'll hallo.
If he be friendly, he comes well; if not,
Defence is a good cause, and Heaven be with us!
– John Milton (1638)
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| William Kentridge Grape Print - Jug (Pages from Mrs Beeton's Household Management - with jug) 2000 lithograph British Museum |
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| William Kentridge Grape Print - La Cosecha (Pages from Mrs Beeton's Household Management - with grape carrier) 2000 lithograph British Museum |
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| William Kentridge Pages from De Peccato Originali with Landscape 2000 lithograph British Museum |
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| William Kentridge Woozebear and the Zoo Bears (poster for Junction Avenue Theatre Co., Johannesburg) 1981 lithograph (recto) British Museum |
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| William Kentridge Woozebear and the Zoo Bears (poster for Junction Avenue Theatre Co., Johannesburg) 1981 lithograph (verso) British Museum |
At The Zoo
On the back of an invoice
I wrote my name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters
And because money was involved
And so was my name ever in jeopardy
On the back of the same invoice
I rewrote my name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters
And in Leopardy and in Jeopardy
I resolved, dissolved upon a radical eradicator
Inking in, dissolving upon
Jeopardizing in my own name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters
– Alfred Starr Hamilton (1914-2005)