David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


13 September 2017

The Wall


TAR presents 
Daruma Muralist
after Bodhidharma
after Tommaso Laureti Siciliano
after Yves Klein 
after Erich and Margot Honecker
after Lucio Fontana  
after Germaine Greer
after The Doors :
Break on Through (to the Other Side)


Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 detail 
 A P
erson Looks At A Work Of Art/ 
 som
eone looks at something... 


  
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GOS/HA H