(From The Baby’s Own Aesop: Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme, With Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane. Engraved and Printed in Colours By Edmund Evans. 1887. Via the LOC).
Tag: Art
Pan — Cy Twombly
The Enigma — Gustave Dore
Madonna of the Book — Sandro Botticelli
RIP Joe Kubert
RIP comic book legend Joe Kubert, 1926-2012
Book Shelves #33, 8.12.2012
Book shelves series #33, thirty-third Sunday of 2012
This is the end cap shelf of the coffee table in our family room, which is really the room where the kids play.
Mostly old ratty Shakespeare paperbacks and other slim volumes. Some of the hundreds of CDs I have that I haven’t played in ages.
Books:
I reread Henry IV last year, using these editions; still one of my favorite plays.
Contains some of my favorite moments in literature (I especially love the part where Falstaff calls his soldiers his “rag of Muffins”):
Study of a Fowl, Lateral View, with skin and underlying fascial layers removed — George Stubbs
Odalisque with Book — Francesco Hayez
“The Man with the Pumpkin Head” — Robert Walser
Misunderstanding with Queequeg
(Via/more).
Hercules Kills the Symphalic Bird — Albrecht Dürer
Master Class with Charlie Kaufman (Göteborg International Film Festival 2011)
Asleep with Book — Norman Rockwell
John Waters on Art and Filth and Pier Paolo Pasolini and Fred Phelps and Other Matters
Study for Ophelia — John Everett Millais
Interior with Book — Richard Diebenkorn
The Spirit of Plato — William Blake
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