Parsifal I, 1973 by Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)
The Bedroom, c. 1659 by Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684)
Volatile Bodies, 2016 by Emily Mae Smith (b. 1979)
Metamorphosis, 1948 by Albert Bloch (1882-1961)
The Radiance of Attention by Luc Tuymans (b. 1958)
Salon Dogs Meet the Death Worm, 2015 by Susannah Martin (b. 1964)
Judith and Holofernes, 1730 by Giulia Lama (1681-1747)
The Sad Horse, 1959 by Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982)
I returned to classes on Monday after 10 humid, uncomfortable, and often scary days “off” due to Hurricane Irma. In the slim hour and change between my last lecture and my kids’ school dismissal, I swung by my favorite used bookshop. I was worried that it might have flooded, but the waters didn’t get to the inventory (well over a million books).
I picked up a a PKD Daw edition, a mass market paperback, Deus Irae, co-authored with Roger Zelazny. I’ve been picking up pretty much any early PKD mass market ppbk; new editions of his stuff tend to be pretty boring. I had to pick between two editions:
I also picked up Eddie Campbell’s Alec: How to Be an Artist, which I gobbled up the other day in two sittings. There’s a pretty neat canon of graphic novels at the end, which I’ll share later this week. The cover looks like an illustration of Roberto Bolaño to me.
I also picked up two Roald Dahl books we didn’t have, Esio Trot and Danny the Champion of the World, which my kids read immediately and greedily.
Above an Irish Sea, 2012 by F. Scott Hess (b. 1955)
Endymion, c. 1872 by George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)
The Temptation of St. Anthony by Otto Dix (1891-1969)
Dream of St.Ursula, 1495 by Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1465-c. 1526)
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