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.


15 December 2018

Robert Morris and the Fabric of Regard


Robert Morris (1931-2018) obituary

Radical American artist and sculptor whose work always had a quality of risk

Charles Darwent | The Guardian

Tue 4 Dec 2018 04.48 AEDT


 A visitor looks at an untitled work by Robert Morris, included in 
 Guggenheim Collection: The American Avant-Garde 1945-1980
 in Rome in 2012. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images

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