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.
A friend of TAR has donated four monochromes. Preserves under glass with hand written labels. Thank you Red.click image to enlarge
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours), Stevie Wonder (1970)
A recent FIAPCE acquisition is this card by Ben; and by Philip Corner.
Initially, Ben Vautier produced the card with its printed declaration, author's stage name and date.
JE SIGNE TOUT
BEN 1960
At some stage, Fluxus co-founder Philip Corner has then signed the card with his own given name and added the red seal of his Korean pseudonym Gwan Pok, meaning 'Contemplating Waterfall.' To complete the formalities, and his cheeky Fluxus uberclaim, he has penciled it as a unique edition, 1/1.
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Study regard
Study interconnectedness
Study 'The Student' ] Tom Bass & TAR, 2021 (
A.S. & Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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Honour Roll
yes, mate, on a roll
From our office pin-ups,
Bea Miles of Sydney (1902-1973)
Bea with one of her shingles offering ...
Excited
IRRATIONAL TALKS
ON MANY SUBJECTS
8/- 2/- 4d 6d 3½d
A second of her shingles
S H A K E S P E A R E
POETRY & PROSE
Recited
RATIONAL TALKS ON
MANY SUBJECTS
3/- 2/- 1/- 6d
Another from the streets of Sydney
around that time, Arthur Stace (1884-1967).
He wrote Eternity.
this hermit scrabbler from Mr D
in yesterday's mail ...
Irezumi Sengai
... followed by this, today.
Also in 0ur UNWPD letter box today
two wave signed
see sea rider writer pages
from Bob ...
... and the usual fine line in Op Ed additions.
Plus, an ACT redaction edition postcard
from Spare Room 33 ...
Spare Room 33 : Special Edition 1
Never before have so many incredible diamonds, emeralds
and other precious stones
been seen
] see : Der Blaue See See Writer (
in Australia.
Cartier: The Exhibition
showcases more than 300 spectacular items,
with loans from royal families,
celebrities
and the astonishing Cartier Collection itself,
in exquisite settings such as royal tiaras,
necklaces, brooches and earrings.
- from NGA website
... and this
red action
from TAR
after Issa
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Another postcard recently received. From P&S at
Spare Room 33
(Opening soon :
LAWRENCE WEINER : EARLY WORKS)
On the picture side, a circle amid rectangle(s), the West Australian artist Howard Taylor's
Day time moon (1997). Plus, a bonus Australia Post orange banding P.O.em
On the verso, Peter quotes Howard Taylor :
The day before this THIS LOOKING THING moon pointer arrived we posted here an image of ("Bring me...) the sculpted behead of Paul Signac on a Block, as Daruma Muralist, as circle and square, as rounded and rect....
Bust of Paul Signac (1863-1935), 1935
by Jan and Joël Martel (Nantes 1896 – 1966 Paris)
At the same time, we encountered this article at Hyperallergic:
Across the city, many works by the 55 artists participating in the 2016 Biennale Montréal deal with the possibilities, limitations, and consequences of spectacle and spectatorship.
Luis Jacob's high pedestalled headless
HAND SPACE guillotine-gazer abregardist hugely tickled our fancy. Paricularly, when combined with the reverso bust of Paul Signac.
All just too ]----(plosively funny for words. lots of lollies!
Luis Jacob, “Sphinx” (2015) Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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A special pleasure shared by artists is an ease of giving and receiving.
Here, such things are often delivered by Postman Nick, himself an artist and leaver of fruit from his trees, sometimes a drawing, or a letter, a photo... Recently, he delivered this unexpected handmade postcard sent several weeks before the TRUMP ascendency, postmarked Briefzentrum 12 (Berlin-South Postal Distribution Center) and stamped with a yellow TRUMPet on white surrounds - Narcissus.
From whom, by whom? By an obviously skilled hand, it declares itself a DANIUS postcard. Is it from International Melbourne Man of Action Danius K of Slave Pianos and Punkasila ...?
It is. Commissioned by him, the unfamiliar skilled calligrapher, drawer, colourist and image maker is a young Mexican artist-clown who lives in Berlin, Ernesto Lucas. (Hello Ernesto. Thank you!)
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
presents
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Goodbye cruel world, we're off to join the Circus
Gambas Circus, Berlin. Ernesto Lucas and Camille Phelep with
members of Junior TAR
Sending Postcards
TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."
Collecting Paintings
TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."
Quoting Quotations
TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."
English Chorus: "This too shall pass"
Persian Chorus: این نیز بگذرد, pron. īn nīz bogzarad
Arabic Chorus: لا شيء يدوم ("Nothing endures")
Hebrew Chorus: גם זה יעבור ("Gam Zeh Yaavor")
Turkish Chorus: Bu da geçer yâ hû
Latin Chorus: hoc quoque finiet
Paying Attention to bLOGS
TAR Chorus : "A thing of the past, old dear."
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What a beaut. Mrs Chook with bonnet and apron, her bird's head umbrella tucked under her wing as she looks at this semi-attached poster. Its lower part is pinned to the fence, the upper part directly to the postcard's image-space.
Lovely back view : behind the poster, behind the fence, behind the semi-detached. Behind this postcard (verso) this verse : to Miss M Bishop,
with loving wishes from PJ.
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Behind Mrs Chook's boots, too. See :
Printed in gold, the rectangular projection-space with the monogram RTS (Raphael Tuck & Sons), supported on an easel and with an artist's palette and brushes (Artistic Series) in the foreground.
Do you see all that?
And did you see this?
Well, "Made you look you dirty chook!"
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In Melbourne and Sydney in the early 1970s, certain members of Theatre of the Actors of Regard made it their practice to visit Minimalist and Conceptualist art exhibitions and enquire of the director or a member of staff :
"Oh, is there nothing on?"
Recounted from the other side, one may still hear gallery personnel tell of those who used to come into an exhibition and say :
"Oh, is there nothing on?"
That came to mind while enjoying this artist's response...
...to one stater of the obvious. This is from a U.S. postcard series - THOSE FOOLISH QUESTIONS - published by G & B in 1910.
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In the preceding posts
we have regarded
as figures-on-ground :
- a red vertical (The Wild, Barnett Newman, 1950)
- a black horizontal (Black painting, Mel Ramsden, 1966)
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Cross (Small Cross in Black over Red on White), 1920-27, Stedelijk Museum : johan's photoblog
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Today, we attempt to focus on
the ground/
ground-on-ground/
The Ground/
(1) In the 1910 postcard scene :
two figures on a ground
regard
with language and other projections
a white-on-white (sic) ground (sic)
(2) In the TAR scene below :
two figures on a ground
regard
with language and other projections
a white-on-white (sic) ground (sic)
"It goes without saying that when artists attend exhibitions, they look with exceptional intensity: on the initiative of the Rheinische Post, the artist Günther Uecker and Marion Ackermann, director of the Kunstsammlung, visited the exhibition “Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian: The Infinite White Abyss” together at the K20.
They spoke about the artistic approaches of this trio of avant-garde artists, about their compositions, about German postwar art – and of course, about the color white.
For the curator Marion Ackermann, this is the most radical picture in the exhibition: Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism (White Planes in Dissolution), 1917-18, on loan from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam."
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