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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: Diagonal Science
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015. In 1970 Roger Caillois wrote an article entitled "A New Plea for a Diagonal Science" (to be found in the collection The Edge of Surrealism. Dante and Virgil in Hell. From Roger Caillois, The Writing of Stones. Caillois was searching for correspondences in areas of human knowledge and creativity as well as among natural phenomena. In The Writing of Stones. And even aesthetics, or at least the need for ornament and decoration.". 1606-1686), whose cabinet was arranged in "in such a way ...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: May 2012
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Saturday, 19 May 2012. I came across the Estonian artist and illustrator Eduard Wiiralt. 1898-1954) in S.A. Mansbach's Modern Art In Eastern Europe. Which has this to say about him:. Wiiralt's artistic career was conducted principally through the graphic arts, whose various media effectively employed to reveal disturbingly mystical and erotic incidents that he had imagined while in Paris. In his print. There's an interesting article on Wiiralt at the Baltic Times. As well as two posts on 50 Watts. Art of...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: July 2015
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Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Inverted Anthropomorphism, Part 1. Prior to his departure from the Surrealist group, in 1934 Roger Caillois contributed an essay to the journal Minotaure. The law of magic, Things that have once touched each other stay united. Corresponds to the principle of association by contiguity, just as the principle of association by similarity precisely corresponds to the attractio similium. Of magic: Like produces like. Which he terms "legendary psychaesthenia." He compares it to the...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: January 2013
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Monday, 14 January 2013. No Man's Land, 1943. Cleron, the Cat Breeder, 1925. Composition, c.1943. The Game, 1933. Ein Jude, c.1926. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hotmail.co. uk. Will Evans: One-Man Publishing Show. Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie. RIP Gilli Smyth (and Gong in general). The Public Domain Review. The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909). Invitation to ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’. ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 50. Roger Dean postage stamps. WHEN MATES MAKE BOOKS. Day of...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: March 2012
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Saturday, 17 March 2012. A special kind of wonder. Those earliest museums, the ur-collections back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were sometimes called. At (the marvels of nature) and wondering. Whether (any of this could possibly be true). And it's that very shimmer, the capacity for such delicious confusion, Wilson sometimes seems to suggest, that may constitute the most blessedly wonderful thing about being human. Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder. Hotmail.co. uk. Invitati...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: Yet more Quay covers
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Sunday, 9 September 2012. Yet more Quay covers. And there's lots of their drawings and graphic work to be seen in this exhibition catalogue. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hotmail.co. uk. Will Evans: One-Man Publishing Show. Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie. RIP Gilli Smyth (and Gong in general). The Public Domain Review. The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909). Invitation to ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’. ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 50. Roger Dean postage stamps. Day of Solid...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: Black Helicopters - Strip Back EP now available
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015. Black Helicopters - Strip Back EP now available. Has it really been so long? Having been preoccupied with various activities such as writing a dissertation on Roger Caillois and the natural fantastic, recording an EP and an album, the occasional bit of artwork, and teacher training, blogging hasn't seemed so much of a priority over the past couple of years. There is finally - finally. A Black Helicopters EP available to download from Bandcamp. 7 December 2015 at 01:32. How to Wr...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: February 2012
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Monday, 6 February 2012. The Drowned World and The Atrocity Exhibition. Thursday, 2 February 2012. Four images by the Polish artist and designer Franciszek Starowieyski. Found while researching yesterday's post. Wednesday, 1 February 2012. The art of Jerzy Skarżyński (1924-2004) seems to have been incredibly diverse, ranging from fairly typical Polish-style posters, through swirling biomorphic surrealism, to bizarre cartoons and comics. You can see examples of the latter (in Polish) here. How to Write th...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: May 2015
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015. In 1970 Roger Caillois wrote an article entitled "A New Plea for a Diagonal Science" (to be found in the collection The Edge of Surrealism. Dante and Virgil in Hell. From Roger Caillois, The Writing of Stones. Caillois was searching for correspondences in areas of human knowledge and creativity as well as among natural phenomena. In The Writing of Stones. And even aesthetics, or at least the need for ornament and decoration.". 1606-1686), whose cabinet was arranged in "in such a way ...
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Cardboard Cutout Sundown: January 2012
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012. El cuadro de los abanicos. Renard, figurin para El Zorro. Alborada. Paisaje explosivo. The Spanish artist Esteban Francés (1913-1976) barely figures in Gérald Durozoi's History of the Surrealist Movement. In spite of a detail of one of his works being featured on the front cover:. And that's pretty much all we're told. The above images are from here. And there's a bit more information here. While (almost inevitably) 50 Watts. Has a feature on a children's (? WHEN MATES MAKE BOOKS.
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