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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May it be a better year for the Tibetan people
24 of whom have self-immolated in the last year
(12 of these since Jan 2012) to protest against the Chinese government's ongoing repression of Tibetan culture.Yesterday the exiled Tibetan Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay was interviewed by Emma Alberici on ABC.TV Late Line .
CLICK HERE to see/hear the interview
CLICK HERE to read the transcript
On a brighter Tibetan note, a very positive one, we recently received a printed invitation for the exhibition
THREE REALMS: Gonkar Gyatso. (Griffith University Gallery/ University of Queensland Art Museum/ Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane)
The invite pictured three of the four images reproduced below, from Gonkar Gyatso's
My Identity, 2003.
THREE REALMS: Gonkar Gyatso opens at UQ Art Museum and Griffith U Gallery on 25 February and will be at the IMA later in the year.
A Losar Wish
as the car sticker says
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In recent times certain operas by The New York Metropolitan Opera have been broadcast to movie theatres around the world as 'live high-definition transmission performances'.
Today, a Visual Art exhibition gets the same treatment with
Leonardo Live from the National Gallery, London.
It's certainly a development of interest to Theatre of the Actors of Regard.
Frame by frame screening plays to the gallery
Nick Miller / SMH
15 February 2012
Here's the online promo.
From the same website, preview with Golden Guillotine :
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Yesterday's
white-on-white post featured a postcard with letter dated 13 February 1904. Same day 108 years ago.
Today, 14th February is
St. Valentine's Day, established as such by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD and now, since the time of Chaucer, an occasion for the celebration of romantic love.
This year, 2012, is the 100th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg's love melodrama
Pierrot Lunaire.
Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds 'Pierrot lunaire' ("Three times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire'"), commonly known simply as Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 ("Moonstruck Pierrot" or "Pierrot in the Moonlight"), is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg. It is a setting of twenty-one selected poems from Otto Erich Hartleben's German translation of Albert Giraud's cycle of French poems of the same name. The première of the work, which is between 35 and 40 minutes in length, was at the Berlin Choralion-Saal on October 16, 1912, with Albertine Zehme as the vocalist.
from Wikipedia ( full article here )
Pierrot Lunaire is a 20th century favorite in the offices of
bLOGOS/HA HA. We regularly play a downloaded version from the thoughtful and generous High Pony Tail (
here ), from an early '70s Hungaraton LP with Erika Sziklay as Pierrot.
Below, for you today, is a performance of Pierrot Lunaire by Pierr/oT of the SLAVE GUITARS.
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NGV management said it would announce its new director last week, then changed to this week and now says an announcement is expected next week.Different strokes as top galleries seek chiefs
Raymond Gill / THE AGE
February 11, 2012
PRESS RELEASE : Ideal Applicant To Get The Job Le marchand de gravures
The Merchant of Images
The Purveyor of Projections
The...
The new Director soon demonstrates his capability. At a crowded first press conference he exploits the opportunity to also unveil the institution's latest Major Acquisition.
"Purchased with the generous assistance of a local media identity (who prefers to remain anonymous)...
... created 14 years before Kazimir Malevich's 1918Suprematist Composition:White on White
(pictured below) ...
... this foundational early 20th century (1904) 'white work' by Theatre of the Actors of Regard :
Procession de communiantes sur la place Blanche. Un jour de neige.
Procession of Communicants at White Square. Snowy day.
The new Director then carefully instructs the press about the many intricacies of the Title that T.A.R. ascribed to this work :
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obliteration
Obliteration :
1) A cancellation intended solely to deface a stamp
- also called a killer.
2) An overprint intended to deface a portion of the design of a stamp,
such as the face of a deposed ruler.
Linns.com : Glossary Of Philatelic Terms
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Recently we showed (
here) this new 'old-style' textover acquisition by the NGV.
Here's something similar, a tableau from the later 1800s. Theatre of the Actors of Regard before a set of Golden Guillotine genre painthings, all centred on a cloudy skyscape mind with over-text. (Reckoned to be an early launch site for Theatre du Vide and Yves Kline's later
Leap into the Void.)
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Here's another detail from the mid-80s set, one of which was shown in
yesterday's post.
In the collection of
Heide Museum of Modern Art, it is also included in the Heide 30th Anniversary exhibitions,
FOREVER YOUNG (until March).
Tomorrow, at that exhibition :
IN CONVERSATION (Free with admission price)
Sunday 29 January 2:00 pm
Tony Clark, John Nixon, Peter Tyndall & John Young
Venue
Heide III: Central Galleries
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We do miss listening to The Book Show (ABC Radio National) with Ramona Koval and her knowledgeable team. What a loss! (Here's the
link to Don Watson's comments about this at The Monthly.)
In place of The Book Show is an arts mix, Books and Arts Daily.
One of yesterday's items was right up our street :
NEW STUDY SAYS THE WAY WE VIEW ART IS IRRATIONAL
Imagine this. There's a picture you love. Suppose it's a Picasso. Or a Sidney Nolan. You just love it. Then one day an expert tells you that it's a copy. Or a fake. How do you react? What happens inside the wiring of your brain?
Martin Kemp is professor emeritus in Art History from Oxford University and a leading expert on the Italian Renaissance, particularly the work of Leonardo do Vinci. Telling authentic works from copies is his bread and butter. Now he's got together with a couple of neuro scientists to explore this fascinating question about how our brains respond to fakes and the genuine article.
Click here for that program
The article discussed, as listed at Radio National :
Title Authenticity when viewing art
Author Martin J Kemp et al
Publisher Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 28 November, 2011
The blue link above will take you to the abstract. From there you can link to the original research article. It's full poetic title is :
Human cortical activity evoked by the assignment of authenticity when viewing works of art
Mengfei Huang1†, Holly Bridge2†,
Martin J. Kemp3 and Andrew J. Parker1*1 Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2 Department of Clinical Neurology, FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
3 Trinity College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK† Mengfei Huang and Holly Bridge Joint first authors."The expertise of others is a major social influence on our everyday decisions and actions. Many viewers of art, whether expert or naïve, are convinced that the full esthetic appreciation of an artwork depends upon the assurance that the work is genuine rather than fake.
Rembrandt portraits provide an interesting image set for testing this idea, as there is a large number of them and recent scholarship has determined that quite a few fakes and copies exist. Use of this image set allowed us to separate the brain’s response to images of genuine and fake pictures from the brain’s response to external advice about the authenticity of the paintings....✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂ ✂
bLOGOS/HA HA wonders if the core of the reality-instability problem might lie in the persistence of our self-cherishing integrity delusion; in our general refusal to wholly appreciate and practise a view that is not based on a notion of fixity and singularity.
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On this National Public Holiday, here we're listening to the Australian Open while sorting through some image files.
This pic is from the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, and seems apt to today :
Australia Day / Invasion DaySet in a Jesus
+Dreaming Golden
|Guillotine, Robert Dowling's
Aborigines of Tasmania 1859.
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Our previous blog post started with a French Poste stamp by Ben.
this is a letter/
this is a stamp/
this is a language/
this is a blog/post/
this is a digital/image/
this is an act/of regard/
this is a moment/of mind/ / / /
The French Phrase it double well :
Qu'est-ce que c'est?For Korean Zen it is the key koan :
What is this?It is part of the Western (
via negativa) way too :
What a delight then to see the front page of today's THE AGE.
What is this? It's about the theft, from the National Gallery of Victoria, of a contemporary artwork:
Have you seen this painting? (2012) by Theatre of the Actors of Regard.
Described as "conceptual-text-on-traditional-landscape-painting intended-for-regard", it is rumoured to have been 'dis-appeared' by a rival practice of young Melbourne artists, The Absence.
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