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.


20 June 2013

Take a chair (apart)


and/or

Re.(gard) a thing and/or its parts 
      
after Van Gogh's (Van Gogh's) Chair, 1888

after Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912

comes this buster meta-re-de-composition,
for auction today at Sotheby's London :
Fernand Léger's Composition a la chaise (c. 1930)
          

     
after which, after WW2, Corporation America's  
The Office Chair, 1961
       


detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/  
someone looks at something ...
 
LOGOS/HA HA

then, hereabouts, Theatre of the Actors of Regard performance en passant at the National Gallery of Victoria, 1975 :
          

 T.A.R. after Hugh Ramsay Jeanne, 1901  
         
     
now, upon a chair and/or its parts ...
     
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/  
someone looks at something ...
 
LOGOS/HA HA