
Tag: Art
The same God so that he obtained of the Magus was by demons be pulled in pieces — Pieter Bruegel the Elder

“As the Rat Rises to the Surface, Its Head Becomes the Head of Yew Bee” (Fletcher Hanks)

Horse Attacked by Lion — George Stubbs

The Novel Reader — Vincent van Gogh

Poe Illustration (“Murders in the Rue Morgue”) — Fritz Eichenberg
(Via/more).
Another Episode — Nicola Verlato

(More at Nicola Verlota’s website).
Woman with a Book — Fernand Leger

Watch Derek Jarman’s Stylized Wittgenstein Biography
The Dingoes That Park Their Brains with Their Gum — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Book Shelves #30, 7.21.2012

Book shelves series #30, thirtieth Sunday of 2012
See a full length shot of this book shelf (or don’t).
Lots of publication series editions here, including this batch of Melville House Art of the Contemporary Novella:

I reviewed most of these and they’re all very good—especially Sandokan.
Some ratty ratty Penguin Classics that I procured from various institutions I won’t name here. The Mallory was a particular obsession for a few years:

The Rousseau Coloring Book was a gift from a friend to our daughter, but I stole it and put it up here.


I reviewed all of Picador’s BIG IDEAS // small books series; I actually got a new one, Privacy, in the mail the other day. Violence and Humiliation are particularly good.
Next to those: various World of Art series books, most of them my wife’s. (Bonus points if you guess mine correctly):

I have no idea why these books are grouped here like this; I’m guessing they were all in the same box when we moved. I know we have multiple copies of several of these:

There’s a basket with a Klee book and some mini umbrellas and other stuff, not pictured, and then this lot on the end, including to “Introducing” books that are remainders from my freshman year of college; they are terrible and I should get rid of them. I stole this edition of The Stranger from my high school in the 10th or 11th grade. The Chronicles of Narnia box set was a gift from my aunt when I was like seven or eight:

Portrait of William Burroughs — Robert Mapplethorpe

Portrait of a Man with a Book — Parmigianino

Hart Crane — David Alfaro Siqueiros

Still Life with Books and Candle — Henri Matisse

Thaishun with Elephants — Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Evening Wind — Edward Hopper

