bLOGOS/HA HA: This Heady Victory : A Restoration Comedie

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.

17 August 2011

This Heady Victory : A Restoration Comedie

Oh, this moment of imperfect regard

'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'.

David Jones, from the quotation at the header of this bLOG

of this digital reproduction

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of a damaged photographic print

of a damaged object

as regarded by Daphne Mayo

in this 1912 tableau vivant [ Theatre of the Actors of Regard ]

came to bLOGOS/HA HA attention

today

as, first, a roughly repaired, cropped, black-and-white

click above to enlarge

dot-screened detail

of an ink printed document

from the U Q ART MUSEUM

inviting us to attend

on 24 August

The Daphne Mayo Lecture 2011
Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980

by Anne Marsh

author of

Look :
Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980

photo by Polixeni Papapetrou

a post script :
Researching the 1912 tableau at University of Queensland Library - Daphne Mayo Collection ( here ) we were greatly surprised to also find there this image of another Daphne Mayo construction,
from 1921, The Student's Head