Category: Art
Check Out a New Digital Exhibit on William H. Gass
Very cool site: William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence. Where you can–
Explore drafts of published and unpublished writings, recordings of his interviews and readings, photographs and scans of important documents and objects that have shaped his life. You will also find an essay, “My Memories of the Service,” which Gass wrote specifically for this digital exhibit.
Lots of great photos, including lots of pics of Gass’s book shelves, which is the sort of thing you might like to nerd out over (I did, anyway), and all the slides Gass used to accompany his “The Surface of the City” lecture. The site even shares a digital gallery of a scrapbook of reviews, articles, ads, and photos that Gass created in the 1950s and ’60s. Also: report cards, a map Gass drew of places he went in the navy, letters, poems, essays, all kinds of manuscripts, etc. etc. etc.
A Voyage to the Moon — Gustave Doré
Tale of Tales — Yuriy Norshteyn
July — Fairfield Porter
A Follower of Grolier — Julian Alden Weir
Illustrated Borges Manuscript
(Via).
Don Quixote — Katsuhiro Otomo
In Heaven Everything Is Fine — Ged Quinn
(Via/more).
“The Goblins” — William Gass
Francisco d’Andrade, Reading a Newspaper — Max Slevogt
Dr. Strangelove Poster — Tomi Ungerer
The Harlot and the Giant — William Blake
Art Critic — Norman Rockwell
Girl Reading at the Window — Gwen John
Champion — Charlie White
More Charlie White.
“I have found little that is ‘good’ about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think” — Letter from Sigmund Freud to Oskar Pfister, October 9, 1918
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