Category: Art
Selected Reading (Core of Conviction) — Eric Yahnker
Umberto Eco — Rudcef
Hasta su Abuelo — Mircea Suciu
Letter from the Old Country — David Bekker
The White Skirt — Balthus
Maurice Sendak’s Erotic Illustrations for Herman Melville’s Pierre (Book Acquired, 5.09.2014)
Pierre, Herman Melville’s follow up to Moby-Dick, was, without a doubt, the most challenging, perplexing, befuddling book I read in school. I still don’t get it.
Still, I love Melville, and I love Maurice Sendak, so when I saw this unused copy of the Kraken addition for half-cover price at my favorite local used bookshop, I couldn’t resist.
Sendak’s bawdy illustrations recall William Blake to me—great stuff—although I’ll probably read Moby-Dick or The Confidence Man again before I make time for Pierre.
Read more about this edition of Pierre here.
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld — Jan Brueghel the Elder
The Library — Jacob Lawrence
The Encounter on 2 bis rue Perre — Victor Brauner
The horrible secret of adulthood (Life in Hell)
Scrubwoman, Astor Library — John French Sloan
Malcolm X — Dave Sim
City of Fire — Moebius
RIP Gordon Willis
RIP Gordon Willis, 1931-2014
Swallows — Edouard Manet
Game of Thrones Poster — Kilian Eng
Biblioklept