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.
What a joy
to see so much great Australian Open tennis
these past two weeks
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watching TV tennis
Djokovic refocuses his mind and goes on to win
Hakuin and the liberation focus of Daruma 
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Franz Verbeek's Jester and John Turturro as
the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville in
The Name of the Rose both use the same TAR lens
as our editor.
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Screaming Teens Mob Paintings
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Victory over the Sun
Victory over the Sun (Russian: Победа над Cолнцем, Pobeda nad Solntsem) is a Russian Futurist opera premiered in 1913 at the Luna Park in Saint Petersburg.
The libretto written in zaum language was contributed by Aleksei Kruchonykh, the music was written by Mikhail Matyushin, the prologue was added by Velimir Khlebnikov, and the stage designer was Kazimir Malevich. The performance was organized by the artistic group Soyuz Molodyozhi. The opera has become famous as the event where Malevich made his first Black Square painting (in 1915).
The opera was intended to underline parallels between literary text, musical score, and the art of painting, and featured a cast of such extravagant characters as Nero and Caligula in the Same Person, Traveller through All the Ages, Telephone Talker, The New Ones, etc.
The audience reacted negatively and even violently to the performance, as have some subsequent critics and historians.
A documentary film about the opera was made in 1980.
...However, the original performance was far more about rejection of the secure past than of a fear of the future: the sun itself was a favourite Symbolist motif, and hence suitable as a target for Futurist attack.
A more appropriate approach is El Lissitzky's 1923 analysis of the work as a celebration of man's technological capabilities: 'the sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.' This understanding of the work seems closer to the original spirit than Hollander's fear of the future.
A newspaper photograph of the first performance of Victory over the Sun, St. Petersburg's Luna Park, 1913
Suprematist Composition
...Retrospectively, Malevich declared that his backdrop for the second act, fifth scene of Victory over the Sun was the first public display of Suprematism. Certainly, the large square divided diagonally recalls his painting "Black Square." Still it is possible, in the context of the play, to see this design as symbolic of the split between night and day, and therefore as, at least in principle, representational rather than purely abstract.
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition (1915)
World Without Sun
Without the Futurist hubris, Jacques Cousteau's World Without Sun (1964) reintegrates a respectful world view. We watched this film at school in 1968 and discussed it in our weekly film club. It has stayed with your correspondent.
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Theatre on a stick. A sneak preview, before the curtains fully open...
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STAR at SCHOOL STRIKE 4 CLIMATE, Melbourne, 15 March 2019
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Just looking, thanks.
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We've been watching the Australian Open tennis
on TV. On high rotation throughout has been the APT Luxury Travel advertisement 'Live Fully' - made with some irony, wethinks.
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The music used for APT's 'Live Fully' comes from
Major Lazer's 'Live Free' (2013)
... just this bit :
Look at me
I just can't believe
What they've done to me
We could never get free
I just wanna be I just wanna dream
The 'Live Free' video clip features a homeless man wearing a NIKE ] Just Do It! ( TENNIS tee-shirt.
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Live Free - unabridged
Never got love from a government man
Heading downstream till the levee gives in
What can i do to get the money
We ain't go the money, we ain't gettin' out
Heading downstream till the levee gives in
And my dreams are wearin' thin
All I need's relief
I need I need some sympathy
Look at me
I Just can't believe
What they've done to me
We could never get free
I just wanna be
Look at me
I just can't believe
What they've done to me
We could never get free
I just wanna be
I just wanna dream
All of my life been wadin in
Water so deep now we got to swim
Wonder will it ever end
How long how long till we have a friend
Comin' down, feelin' like a battery hen
Waves won't break till the tide comes in
What will I do in the sunrise
What will I do without my dreams
Look at me
I Just can't believe
What they've done to me
We could never get free
I just wanna be
Look at me
I Just can't believe
What they've done to me
We could never get free
I just wanna be
I just wanna dream
We're all together in the same boat
I know you, you know me
Baby, you know me
We're all together in the same boat
I know you, you know me
Baby, you know me
We're all together in the same boat
I know you, you know me
Baby, you know me
I Just wanna dream
Songwriters: Dave Taylor / Thomas Wesley Pentz / David Donnell Longstreth / Amber Coffman
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Detective Swan Laurence (Samuel Labarthe) and his secretary Marlène Leroy ( Élodie Frenck) in Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie.
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presents
The Great Thaw That Liberates!
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In the beginning was The Literature Club
Going forward, as they say...
Today follows on from yesterday
The Logos Club from The Picture Club
The Seventh Function of Language
from HHhH with Sight Gag
Ceci n'est pas une hache / This is not an axe.
La trahison des images / The Treason of Images h/ere
Ceci n'est pas une hache / This is not an axe.
La trahison des images / The Treason of Images FIAPCE
Ceci n'est pas une haiche / This is not an aitch.
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Modern Merican Painted Canvas didn't always float free to be seen in Independence Daze on the staged walls of Theatre of the Actors of Regard.
Various photos of Barnett Newman in his studio show him with heavily-suspended stretched right-angles of canvas anchored by chains before during and after the paint.
These proof sheet photographs are from the 1965 studio portraits of Barnett Newman by Ugo Mulas.
In the mid-1940s Newman painted a small number of mostly untitled circle/sun motifs. One was clue-titled Pagan Void. After that, the vertical line motif ("zip") on the field (of colour) motif predominated the play.
His 1948 consolidation work - one vertical zip centred on a vertical format canvas - he titled Onement (at one out of atonement). The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, he had studied philosophy in New York and it all showed. Soon came By Twos (1949).
We do wonder about the presence/influence/role/
dynamic of the suspension chain verticals 'outside'
on the painted verticals 'inside'?
Photos of the early exhibitions of these artworks, such as at Betty Parsons gallery, show them still in obvious suspension, not 'free floating'.
We conclude this now with the Sight Gag song as...
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