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.


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05 January 2023

Gob Stopper


The Speaking Tour [ Pt 2 ) 

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
Third Test - Australia versus South Africa
Day 2 from the Sydney Cricket Ground 

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

12 September 2018

"LOGO" | Figure + Field




regarding LOGOS | LOGO | "LOGO"
etymoLOGOS/HA HA
from Online Etymology Dictionary

logo (n.)
"simple symbol or graphic meant to represent something," 1937, probably a shortening of logogram "sign or character representing a word."

logocentric (adj.)
"centered on reason," 1931, from logo- "reason" + -centric.

logorrhea (n.)
1878, from logo- "word, speech" + ending from diarrhea.

logolatry (n.)
"worship of words," 1810 (Coleridge), from logo- + -latry "worship of." …

logomaniac (n.)
"one mad for words," 1870; see logo- "word" + maniac (see mania).…

logophobia (n.)
"fear of words," 1890; see logo- "word" + -phobia "fear." Related: Logophobe; logophobic.

logo-
before vowels log-, word-forming element meaning "speech, word," also "reason," from Greek logos "word, discourse; reason," from PIE root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak (to 'pick out words')."

logomachy (n.)
see logo- + -machy). Related: Logomach; logomachical. …

logogram (n.)
"word-sign, sign or character representing a word," 1840, from logo- "word" + -gram. Generically, "any symbol representing …

logograph (n.)"instrument for giving a graphic representation of speech, word-writer," 1879, from logo- "word" + -graph "instrument for …

logograph (n.)
"instrument for giving a graphic representation of speech, word-writer," 1879, from logo- "word" + -graph "instrument for …

logocracy (n.)
"system of government in which words are the ruling powers," 1804; see logo- + -cracy "rule or government by." Popularized by …
*leg- (1)
logic; logistic; logo-; logogriph …

swoosh (n.)
1860, sound made by something (originally a fishing rod during a cast) moving rapidly through the air; imitative. As a verb from 1867. The Nike corporate logo so called from 1989.

letter-head (n.)
also letterhead, "sheet of paper with a printed or engraved logo or address," 1868, short for letterheading (1867 …

prudential (adj.)
Related: Prudentially. Prudential, the U.S. insurance company, dates to the 1870s; its logo featuring the Rock of Gibraltar dates from c. 1900 and was widely known 20c.

logogriph (n.)
type of word puzzle based on synonyms, etc., and often in the form of a verse, 1590s, from French logogriphe, from Greek logos "word" (see Logos) + gripos/griphos "riddle," a figurative use, literally "fishing basket, creel," probably from a pre-Greek word in a lost Mediterranean language. "The variation [p/ph] is typical for Pre-Greek words; such an origin for a fisherman's word is quite understandable" [Beekes].

logopoeia (n.)
a quality in poetic writing that charges words with meaning based on context and prior usage, a term introduced, along with phanopoeia(visual image) and melopoeia (sound), by Ezra Pound from Greek logopoeia, from logos "word" (see Logos) + poiein "to make, create" (see poet).

logon
in computer sense, as one word, by 1975, from log (v.2) + on (adv.).

Logos (n.)
1580s, "the divine Word, second person of the Christian Trinity," from Greek logos "word, speech, statement, discourse," also "computation, account," also "reason," from PIE *log-o-, suffixed form of root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak," on notion of "to pick out words." The Greek word was used by Neo-Platonists in metaphysical and theological senses involving notions of both "reason" and "word" and subsequently picked up by New Testament writers


 Serena Williams examines her smashed racket during the
 women's final of the United States Open. (New York Times)

 photo : Danielle Parhizkaran/USA Today Sports, via Reuters

Theatre of the Actors of Regard   
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
 
 LOGOS/HA HA


  

13 September 2016

Theatre of the Athletes of Regard (TAR) versus Museum Border Force (MBF)

   
Let one who is truly free 
succeed 

to impede 
such passing by

 The Private Thoughts of Sir Robert
(publication pending)
 Second shooter?  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
         
 LOGOS/HA HA         
   
     
   

06 September 2016

before | art moderne | after


Looking at some comic sketches in a volume of Le Monde Illustre, we note with interest that by 1865 (see the various dates discussed below) there was already reckoned a readership for a public spoof about "a project for a symbolic statue of modern art". Consolidation of this new movement is clear in the terminoLOGOS/HA HA (''l'art moderne") and in its mock monumental stature. (What is that thing he's holding out?)
 Projet d'une statue symbolique de l'art moderne.
 Le Mois Comique, par Edmond Morin et Zed.
 Le Monde Illustre, p.269, 1865

 History of modern Art: roots in the 19th century
Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern
painting can be located earlier.[5] The date perhaps most commonly identified as marking the birth of modern art is 1863,[6]
the year that Édouard Manet showed his painting Le déjeuner sur l'herbe in the Salon des Refusés in Paris. Earlier dates have also been proposed, among them 1855 (the year Gustave Courbet
exhibited The Artist's Studio) and 1784 (the year Jacques-Louis David completed his painting The Oath of the Horatii ).[6] 
NB  It is The Oath of the Horatii that the Outsiders run past and leave us to regard in Goddard's 'Bande à part' (Band of Outsiders) a century after the Projet d'une statue symbolique de l'art modernes, making this another contender worthy of consideration at the starting line of post-Modernism. 
- Ed. bLOGOS/HA HA
In the words of art historian H. Harvard Arnason: "Each of these dates has significance for the development of modern art, but none categorically marks a completely new beginning .... A gradual metamorphosis took place in the course of a hundred years."[6]
- from Wikipedia


 Jean-Luc Goddard "Bande à part" (Band of Outsiders) 1964

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

     

24 August 2016

O FORTUNA : TOKYO 2020


Did you see the teaser for TOKYO 2020 
at the Rio Olympics closing ceremony?

 Best thing since Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad (1965), Gary Numan's Cars (1979), Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls (1984)...


  Theatre of the Athletes of Regard 
SUCH SUFFICIENT FORTUNE 
One O/ZERO/ENSO in LOVE
One O/ZERO/ENSO in SPORT
BINGO!
           

       
O FORTUNA     
twO O/ZERO/ENSO in TOKYO
twO O/ZERO/ENSO in 2O2O
BINGO! BINGO!
            

  Theatre of the Athletes of Regard 
LOOK!
Japanese TAR - PM Shinzō Abe as Super MariO
            

  Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
LOOK!
West End Girls + East End Boys
           

  Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
detail 
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

 LOGOS/HA HA
           
LO+OS/HA HA
LO+OS/HA HA             
LO+OS/HA HA
LO+OS/HA HA
LO+OS/HA HA
           
LOGOS/HA HA

     
           

22 August 2016

100% LOGOS


Sign of the times, the number of Olympic athletes conspicuously testifying to their God. 

 Perhaps it's not such a good look if you're on the starting block, kiss a cross then break before the starter's gun and are immediately disqualified. 
        
Better, perhaps, if you are Neymar, the captain of the host country's beloved football team and you kick the winning goal in the Olympic Final shoot-out for Gold.
     
Soli Deo gloria


     
Hoc est Corpus Meum 



As if to underline something 
a couple of newspaper clippings from the same day 

 Qui manducat carnem meam 


   
 Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!
       

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 LOGOS/HA HA         
     
       
       

21 August 2016

Theatre of the Athletes of Regard : new events well received


We've appreciated the inclusion of some of the more contemporary sports at the Rio Olympics. 

 It was great to see running-and-shooting brought to the fore in Modern Pentathlon. Congratulations to Chloe Espesito for winning that.
             

Chloe Esposito  
And in Gymnastics, mandala ideogram rotation. Congratulations to the Aussie mixed doubles team from Sorlie's Revue for taking out the Antipodean Pedal section of that one.


photo Jeff Carter  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
         
 LOGOS/HA HA         
 

       

20 August 2016

Theatre of the Athletes of Regard


Le Louvre
Gold Silver Bronze 
medals not collected


 Jean-Luc Goddard "Bande à part" (Band of Outsiders) 1964

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