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.
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'.
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Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
- William Hughes Mearns, Antigonish (1899)
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LOGOS/HA HA :
POWER SPEAKS SHIT TO THE PEOPLE
No cuts to education
no cuts to health
no change to pensions
no change to the GST
no cuts to ABC
no cuts to SBS
no cuts to ACRONYMS
no cuts to the ALPHABET
Laughing Christ, Noel Counihan, 1970
Lazarus is dead, they said.
Jesus the Christ the Logos spoke thus unto him,
saying :
"Arise, Sir Lazarus!"
Chorus :
Lazarus is dead, long live Lazarus!
Lazarus is dead, long live Lazarus!
Lazarus is dead, long live Lazarus!
Lazarus is dead, long live Lazarus!
Auferweckung des Lazarus, St. Maria in Kapitol, Koln
Jesus and Lazarus had a good laugh together...
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And now the TAR Chorus :
Art is dead, long live Art!
Art is dead, long live Art!
Art is dead, long live Art!
Art is dead, long live Art!
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Cross (Small Cross in Black over Red on White), 1920-27, Stedelijk Museum : johan's photoblog
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La Langue, French, is both tongue and language
The Logos, from the Greek, refers variously to the Word of God, the Christ... and (also our) Speaking the World into Being
bLOGOS/HA HA is all of the above plus burps and blots and laughs and farts and dribbles and
1904 : words of Marie, script, flowing to the see
to observe the life cycle - Bonne Fete - of her friend Miss Jeanne at the House of the Water Castle (Villa du chateau d'eau), Bort.
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Today is variously known in Australia as Australia Day and Invasion Day.
"It was like a church turned inside out."
Christine recounting her experience of Uluru
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In the Beginning
the circle
the sun bright and looking out
and the moon often inward
both within
Then the Terrible Twos when
one day the circle stuck it's tongue out
stuck it out so far
it went all the way round
Now the sun and moon inside and out
such fun to see the rivers run...
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Heapster reading Harold Mitchell's Time to recycle Australia's economy in The Age today, looks up at last year's FIAPCE Values poster and nods.
Oh yeah!
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It's the last week for Eikōn: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World at the Ballarat Art Gallery.
Of particular interest to bLOGOS/HA HA, given the present turmoil at the meeting points of Islam's blasphemy proscription and the West's ideal of free expression, is this image of this image of the Christ.
'The Image Not Made by Human Hands’, also known as ‘The Mandylion’, or ‘The Holy Face of Edessa’ (Russia, 17th century), egg tempera and gesso on linen over wood, 30.8 x 25.7 cm, (Private Collection, Sydney).
So too, the accompanying gallery wall text. Notes were made : "The existence of this image was the primary argument for the Divine Sanction of images...".
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the name "Veronica" comes from the Latin vera, meaning "true" or "Truthful", and the Greek eikon, meaning "image"; the Veil of Veronica was therefore largely regarded in medieval times as the "true image", the truthful representation of Jesus, preceding the Shroud of Turin. (Wikipedia)
Albrecht Dürer, Sudarium of St Veronica supported by two angels, an engraving (British Museum)
What about blasphemy by web bots? Is that possible? The nuances get so angels-on-a-pin-head weird.
Here's what happened as we transferred this Portable Network Graphic of The Image Not Made by Human Hands to Google Chrome Photos in order to upload it to bLOGOS/HA HA. The bots sent in their Facial Recognition engineers :
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In Reims, a massive Police force is hunting the French Islamic terrorists who, 12 hours ago in Paris, assassinated ten cartoonists and journalists of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and the two police (one of whom was Muslim) assigned to protect them.
Je suis Charlie has quickly become the unifying expression as protests begin in major European cities.
Many hold up a pen or pencil.
In Melbourne, fpm (free pencil movement) stickers are appearing again on the streets.
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In the begynnynge was that worde
translation to English by William Tyndale
William Tyndale is a pin-up at bLOGOS/HA HA. Linguist, translator, neologist, poet and publisher. A hero who gave all for equal access to knowledge and education.
It was Tyndale who, against the wishes of the King and the pursuit of heretic-hunter Thomas Moore, first translated the Bible into English. He who then had it secretly published abroad and smuggled into England.
William Tyndale was hated and hunted by the powers of his day just as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are in ours.
With English connivance, he was tried as a heretic in Antwerp. Tyndale's last words on the pyre were : "Lord, open the King of England's eyes". detail
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It has been a pleasure over recent weekends to watch Melvyn Bragg, another great appreciator of the word, present the life and achievements of Tyndale : The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England (BBC).
Here is Bragg in the presence of the only surviving intact edition of Tyndale's first printed Bible in English.
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Gough chose the Sydney Town Hall for his memorial send-off, with an on-stage symphony orchestra and a choir. And for his parting selection, Hubert Parry's setting of the words of William Blake - Jerusalem
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England's green & pleasant Land
Today for Wayne Goss it was the Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane. With contemporary Australian art on the walls, no raised stage, and at the end a track from the Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need
Behind the speakers,
Queensland artist William Robinson's
Four Seasons (1987).
Behind the people,
Queensland artist Robert MacPherson's
Mayfair: (Swamp rats) Ninety-seven signs for C.P., J.P., B.W., G.W. & R.W. (1994-95).
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Yesterday, our technical staff were at the media conference of the Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, at which he announced his government cuts (see : "weasel words" : "cuts" described as "efficiency dividends") to ABC funding.
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Because the techies were away, yesterday's blog was posted by the illustrators (see photo below) who reckoned they knew what to do. Apparently, they didn't... ?!
As a consequence, you will observe we are having some technical problems. Instead of the home page showing the last 8 or so posts, it's now just showing yesterday's and, with a bit of luck, this one. Also, the November archive is not showing all that it should. (The October archive and beyond are still OK.)
To see the previous recent posts, scroll to the base of the HOME page and click on Older Posts :
We will fix the problem if we can. Meanwhile, thanks for sticking with us. And here's that photo of the offenders in their studio mess - "Back to the drawing boards, you blokes!"
Postscript 21 November : It's fixed!
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L'Enseigne de Gersaint, or "The Shop Sign of Gersaint", (1720-21) is a painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau, which is considered to be his last masterpiece. It was painted as a shop sign for the marchand-mercier, or art dealer, Edme François Gersaint.
- Wikipedia : here
In 1985, your correspondent stayed a long while in front of this picture at the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin.
As the packers box away a sign of the passing régime, a fashionable [ fickle ) young couple enter the Gersaint image store. Madame pauses at the grave but Monsieur stretches out his hand to hurry her to the new, un nu.
Fashionable friends are already there, closely examining une scène de nombreuses nus commended to them by an assistant of Gersaint.
M & Mme Gersaint are themselves showing another couple another well-presented something. Perhaps un intime nu for their private chambers, or a splendid mirror, even.
Outside, as we depart, a street dog bites at a flea.
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What brought the L'Enseigne de Gersaint to mind again was the recent acquisition, by one of our hot metal setters, of this large abbreviated enamel meta-sign for Signs Of Every Description.
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Another nominee from our recent Subbies awards night :
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Being ourselves often perverse, bLOGOS/HA HA feels somewhat emotional about the presentation of emoticon at Wikipedia :
An emoticon (/ɨˈmoʊtɨkɒn/) (short for emotion icon) is a metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expression which in the absence of body language and prosody serves to draw a receiver's attention to the tenor or temper of a sender's nominal verbal communication, changing and improving its interpretation. It expresses — usually by means of punctuation marks (though it can include numbers and letters) — a person's feelings or mood.
The Second Bus Projects Edition Exhibition
25 September — 11 October 2014
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is a major fundraising exhibition of limited edition prints by a selection of Melbourne’s most exciting contemporary artists.
The exhibition is organised by Kim Brockett and will feature new works for sale by 20 emerging and established artists whose practices engage with contemporary displays of feelings and emotion.
Featuring works by:
Agnes So, Annabelle Kingston & Brennan Olver, Centre for Style, Christo Crocker, Georgia Hutchison & Arini Byng, Greatest Hits, Joshua Petherick, Juliet Rowe, Kate Daw, Kenny Pittock, Madeline Kidd, Matthew Griffin, Nathan Gray, Nick Selenitsch, Noriko Nakamura, Peter Tyndall, SIBLING, Simon Zoric, Tin & Ed, and Tully Moore.
All works featured in the exhibition have been printed in a limited edition of five or ten, using either a digital or screen printing process.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is an opportunity to celebrate and support one of Melbourne’s longest running independent spaces. All profits from sales go directly towards establishing a fund to support interstate and international artist residencies at
Bus Projects’ twin studio spaces, as well as maintaining and upgrading the gallery’s facilities.
Prices
Unframed $250 / Framed $395
All works are 297 x 420 mm (A3)
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