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Showing posts with label writers. Show all posts

Friday, September 12, 2025

Max Ernst

Max Ernst
Eislandschaften Eiszapfen und Gesteinsarten
des Weiblichen Körpers

1920
gouache and graphite on paper
Moderna Museet, Stockholm


Max Ernst
The Imaginary Summer
1927
oil on board
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Max Ernst
The Kiss
1927
oil on canvas
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Max Ernst
Zoomorphic Couple
1933
oil on canvas
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Max Ernst and Marie-Berthe Aurenche
Portrait of André Breton
1933
oil on canvas
private collection
(sold at Bonham's, Paris, 2023)

Max Ernst
Preparing the Bride
1940
oil on canvas
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Max Ernst
The Antipope
1941-42
oil on canvas
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Max Ernst
Moonmad
1944
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Max Ernst
Head (from Sedona)
1948
concrete
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Max Ernst
Figure (from Sedona) Partial
1948
concrete
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning
ca. 1948
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Max Ernst
1949
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Max Ernst
Parisian Woman
1950
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Max Ernst
Beauty of the Night
1954
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Max Ernst
Bosse-de-Nage Ressuscité
1959
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Max Ernst
Daughter and Mother
1959
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Max Ernst
The Red Flower
1959
oil on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Chorus from Troas
 
After Death, Nothing is, and Nothing, Death,
The utmost Limit of a gasp of Breath:
Let the Ambitious Zealot lay aside
His Hopes of Heav'n (whose Faith is but his Pride).
    Let Slavish Souls lay be their Fear,
    Nor be concern'd which way, nor where,
    After this Life they shall be hurl'd,
Dead, we become the Lumber of the World,
And to that Mass of Matter shall be swept,
Where things destroy'd with things unborne are kept. 
    Devouring Time swallows us whole,
Impartial Death confounds Body and Soul:
    For Hell, and the foul Fiend, that rules
    God's everlasting fiery Gaols,
    Devis'd by Rogues, dreaded by Fools,
(Which with grim griezly Dog, that keeps the Door)
    Are sensless Stories, idle Tales,
    Dreams, Whimsies, and no more.

– Seneca (4 BC-AD 65), translated by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1674)

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Robert Indiana

Robert Indiana
The Eateria
1962
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC


Robert Indiana
Beware-Danger American Dream #4
1963
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
The Figure Five
1963
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mary Swift
Studio of Robert Indiana
ca. 1970
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Fire Bridge
1964-65
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Robert Indiana
Love Greeting Card
1964
lithograph
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Love
1967
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Love Tabletop Sculpture
1967
aluminum
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Love Ring
ca. 1972
gilt metal
(manufactured by Charles Revson, Inc.)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Robert Indiana
Love Ring in 18K Gold
ca. 1972
inventory page
(from Eva Lee Gallery, New York)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Love
1973
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Love Stamp (8 cents)
1973
offset-print with adhesive back
National Postal Museum, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Kunst Markt Köln
1967
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Robert Indiana
Number Paintings - Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
1966
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Robert Indiana
New York City Center 25th Anniversary
1968
screenprint
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Hirshhorn Opening Exhibition
1974
offset-print (poster)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Indiana
Five
1984
partly painted wood and found wheels
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


"I don't like Americans or America. I'm getting old and only have a certain amount of time and I don't want to waste a day in a place where I would be miserable."

"Is your dislike of Americans based on anything that happened in your childhood?"

"How ridiculous. I didn't even know America existed before the war."

"So you started hating them when the war came?"

"Yes, I'll never forget what a bore it as when they joined the war. We were having a wonderful time and they came along and spoiled our finest hour."

– Nancy Mitford, from an interview with Art Buchwald in the New York Herald Tribune, April 1957

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar
Palermo Catacombs #6
1963
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago


Peter Hujar
George Osterman in Eunuchs of the Forbidden City
at Ridiculous Theatrical Company

1973
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Hujar
Susan Sontag
1975
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Peter Hujar
Rug
1976
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Peter Hujar
Cow at Night
1978
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Peter Hujar
Self Portrait in the Baths (IV)
1979
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Peter Hujar
Woman Asleep Backstage
ca. 1980
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Peter Hujar
Ethyl Eichelberger as Carlotta, Empress of Mexico
1980
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Peter Hujar
David Wojnarowicz's Hands with Snake
1981
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Hujar
Canal Street Piers - Fake Men on Stairs
1983
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Hujar
Hallway - Canal Street Piers
1983
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Peter Hujar
Greer Lankton's Legs
1983
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Hujar
Dean Savard Reclining
1984
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Hujar
Grass, Port Jefferson
1984
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Hujar
Portrait of the Furness Family, Thanksgiving
1985
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Peter Hujar
Woman's Feet Walking
before 1987
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Carin Goldberg (designer) incorporating photo by Peter Hujar
Dust Jacket for Death Kit by Susan Sontag
1991
lithograph
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

from The Third Satyre

What ev'ry day thus long? fie, fie arise:
See how the cleare light shamefully descries
Thy sloth: and through thy windows shining bright
Stretcheth the narrow chinks with his broad light.
We snort till the Fift shadow touch the line,
Enough ev'n to digest stronge Falerne wine.
Now what dost doe? The furious dog-stars heat
Upon the parched corne hath long since beat
With its fierce scolding influence, and made
The beasts to seeke the spreading Elmes coole shade.
    Thus the companion of some slothfull youth
Does freely chide him. Then said he, in truth
And ist so late? indeed? some body then
Come presently and reach my clothes: why when?
If then no body come: Oh how he swels,
And breaks with glasse-like choller; and then yels
With such a foule loud noise, that you would say
Surely some great Arcadian asse did bray. 
    At last, with much adoe he doth beginne
To take his booke in hand and some faire skinne
Of smooth two-coloured parchment he takes then
Some paper and his knottie reed-like pen. 
Then he complains how that his inke doth sticke
In clots at his pens nose, it is so thicke.
Powre water then to his blacke Sepian juice,
He cries, now tis too white. He's a device
For ev'ry thing. So Sometimes he doth plead
His pen writes double, or his inke doth spread.
    Wretched unhappy man! yet growing still
More wretched! Think'st wee're borne to take our fill
Of sloth? Why dost not then like the soft Dove
Or great mens little children, rather love
In delicatest wantonnesse to lappe
Some soft sweet spoone-meate, as a little pappe?
Or angry with the teat, why dost not crie,
Refusing to be stilld with Lullabie?
    Why, can I studie, sir, with such a quill?
Alas! whom does thou mocke? why pleadst thou still
Such vaine ambages? wretched man to flout
Thy selfe! Th'art broken! loe, thou leakest out!
And know thou shalt be Scornd! strike but a pot
Of some raw earth halfe-boild, and will it not
Tell its owne fault, yeelding a dull crazd sound?
Well; Yet th'art soft moist clay, and mayst be wound
To any forme: Now, therefore, now make haste
To vertue: Present time must be embrac'd.
Now like the potters clay, now thou must feele
Sharpe disciplines effigiating* wheele.

– Persius (AD 34-62), translated by Barton Holiday (1616)

*this translation, as cited by the OED, contains the only known appearance of the adjective effigiating, though the transitive verb to effigiate was relatively common in the 17th century, meaning "to form as an effigy" and so by extension "to shape or adapt"