Spring fever (Flannery O’Connor)

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Flannery O’Connor’s “Now Comes Spring Fever” was originally published on April 25, 1941 in The Peabody Palladium, O’Connor’s high school student newspaper. O’Connor served as the paper’s art director starting in 1940. O’Connor was 16 when she published this comic. Her comics are reprinted in Flannery O’Connor: The Cartoons, Fantagraphics, 2012.

The Necessity of Judgment — Marc Dennis

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Melancholia (detail) — Albrecht Dürer

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Neither More Nor Less — Francisco Goya

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Land Reform IV — Hans Georg Rauch

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Ecclesia — Konrad Witz

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Favorable Omens — Rene Magritte

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Musings under an Apple Tree — Francine Van Hove

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The Ordeal of Owain — Leonora Carrington

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Untitled — Eduardo Nery

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The Werl Triptych (detail) — Robert Campin

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The Werl Triptych (detail) — Robert Campin

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A Lady with a Drawing of Lucretia — Lorenzo Lotto

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Untitled (Los Alamos) — William Eggleston

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Three Books

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Professor Noah’s Spaceship by Brian Wilsdsmith. First edition hardback by Oxford University Press, 1980; distributed through Macmillan Book Clubs. Design, cover, and art by Brian Wildsmith. This book is too beautiful.

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See Again, Say Again by Antonio Frasconi. First edition oversized hardback published by Hacourt, Brace and World, 1964. Cover design, fonts, and woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.

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Do You Hear What I Hear? by Helen Borten. First edition hardback reprint by Flying Eye Books, a division of Nobrow; the book was originally published in 1960. Illustration and design by Helen Borten. Nowbrow kindly sent me a copy of Do You Hear What I Hear?—the book is beautiful, the text is lovely—Borten’s technique is to represent sound—or rather the feeling of sound (which is to say, the feeling of the feeling of sound) through language and art. Like any great children’s book, Do You Hear What I Hearis best read out loud, and my five-year-old son loved it so much that I had to read it again to him immediately after the first reading. We’ve read it a few times since then. Great stuff.

Snake Curling around a Bamboo Stalk with a Sparrow on It — Katsushika Hokusai

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