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.
In Truth I Say Unto You :
The previous post, 'because these images are sick making', offers an example of the error/strategy of paying attention to the finger that points rather than to that which the finger points at.
"The truth is, we keep getting promised the images we saw won't happen again."
"The truth is...
...let me be clear, Labor supports having a live export trade,
but these images are not good enough to simply say business as usual."
Animals Australia
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scapeimage
/ˈskeɪpɪmɪdʒ/
noun
1.
an image blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of other images, or for the faults of the thing(s) or action(s) represented by image(s), especially for reasons of expediency.
| synonyms: | whipping image, victimage, Aunt Sally, Agnus Dei (Logos), scapegoat (William Tyndale rendered the Latin as "(e)scape goat" in his 1530 Bible) |
2.
(in the Art World) an image sent into the wilderness after an influential critic or curator has symbolically projected public dissatisfactions upon it.
verb
1.
to make a scapeimage of
"media police scapeimaged a few of the circleactors to put an end to the issue"
>>> This is not a new problem/strategy/error/
challenge/ >>>
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Extract from BILL'S TRANSCRIPTS :
E&OE TRANSCRIPT
DOORSTOP
HOBART
FRIDAY, 17 JUNE 2016
SUBJECTS: Labor’s positive plans for Tasmania; Labor's plans to tackle youth unemployment; Media access to debates; Murder of British Labour MP Jo Cox; Sheik Shady Alsuleiman; Marriage equality;
Liberal plans to privatise Medicare; Parakeelia; Live exports
JOURNALIST : Do you agree with the suspension of live exports to the abattoirs in Vietnam over animal cruelty and do you think more should be done?
SHORTEN : Yes I do agree with the suspension. Those images are shocking. And before Barnaby Joyce and the rest of the brigade say this means, you know, this means criticising live export is somehow an attack on the whole industry. The truth is, we keep getting promised the images we saw won't happen again. This Government cannot be trusted with the supply chain in live exports, I think that we need to have an Independent Office of Animal Welfare which oversights the supply chain system of live exports. Otherwise many Australian will question the viability of the industry. And let me be clear, Labor supports having a live export trade, but these images are not good enough to simply say business as usual. And we need a new system of regulation which will ensure integrity in the system, because those images are sick making.
Shouldn't it be the actions?
Shouldn't it be :
Those images ACTIONS are shocking.
The truth is, we keep getting promised the images ACTIONS we saw won't happen again.
And let me be clear, Labor supports having a live export trade, but these images ACTIONS are not good enough to simply say business as usual.
because those images ACTIONS are sick making.
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T.A.R.
presents
'anaemia'
anaemic
əˈniːmɪk
adjective
adjective: anemic
suffering from anaemia.
"the doctor said you were a bit anaemic"
| synonyms: | colourless, bloodless, pale, pallid, wan, ashen, white,
white as a ghost/sheet, grey,jaundiced, waxen, chalky,
chalk-white, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced,
peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained,
drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached;
"his naturally anaemic face became even paler"
|
lacking in colour, spirit, or vitality.
"an anaemic aspidistra stood beside the painting"
| synonyms: | feeble, weak, insipid, pallid, pale, wishy-washy, vapid,
bland, poor, puny, flat,inadequate; lame, tame,
uninspired,unimaginative, lacklustre, spiritless, half-hearted,vigourless, lifeless, powerless, impotent,
ineffective, ineffectual, enervated, bloodless;
"'attraction’ was an anaemic description of her feelings"
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No wonder artists such as Lautrec and Van Gogh were so impressed when they encountered works like this by Hokusai. Here, too!
Late Edo period, Japan. The famous artist Hokusai (he changed his name thirty times e.g. from 1834 :
Gakyō Rōjin Manji/The Old Man Mad About Art)
paints onto silk the scene of an unsung painter applying fresh coal black to the base of a red pillar.
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) : seal worthy of our best tagger
Monash University, Clayton, 1975. The brand new Department of Visual Arts' first artist-in-residence FIAPCE (also known by various other names) photographs the scene of an unsung painter applying white paint to a red post.
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[Painting Red Posts White]
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
scene from Theatre of the Actors of Regard drawing :
Regarding a Practitioner of the Great Brush of Three Hairs
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
scene from 1975 FIAPCE disco drawing :
The Brush Off (Lao Tse and the Sunshine Band)
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
That's the way, aha, aha
I like it, aha, aha
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HAKUIN
paints an enso
to help us see
Hakuin Ekaku (1686 - 1768)
HENRY NO LOGOS
Henry is a comic strip created in 1932 by Carl Anderson. The title character is a young bald boy who is mute (and sometimes drawn minus a mouth). With the exception of a few early episodes, the comic strip character communicates only through pantomime, a situation which changed when Henry moved into comic books. (Wikipedia)
Henry steps onto the set of
I Am Comic Curious (Yellow)
He is carrying a framed portrait by Carl Anderson,
a can of black paint and a brush.
Henry hangs the portrait on his free-floating name.
Henry turns to face us.
Henry paints an enso round his right eye.
Henry turns back to face the portrait.
Henry paints an enso round the portrait's right eye.
Standing beside the portrait, Henry regards us.
This is
Black Hole Henry's Meta-Portrait Enso Show
painted to help us see
Henry exits stage right
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The Masks of Melbourne
Last weekend in Melbourne there were violent clashes again between the Theseans & Minotaurs.
AAP photo
The Police Commissioner and Minister for Police have since spoken out against the use of masks by these groups.
They propose that masks by protestors be banned.
This issue has been going on for some time...
ex libris FIAPCE (1973)
Above, members of the two opposing groups pose for a drawing
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We enjoyed and recommend Christopher Benfey's recent Wittgenstein’s Handles in the New York Review of Books. May 24, 2016 click here
Door handles and lock by Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Vienna house he
designed (1926-1929) with architect Paul Engelmann - photo Studio
Hubert Urban, 1972
FIAPCE, ideograms of dependent-arising (above) and The Two Truths
(see: Wittgenstein's Handles)
He begins with a question, to which he responds :
What was it about handles—door-handles, axe-handles, the handles of pitchers and vases—that transfixed thinkers in Vienna and Berlin during the early decades of the twentieth century, echoing earlier considerations of handles in America and ancient Greece?
From Wittgenstein...
To details like the door-handles, in particular, Wittgenstein accorded what Monk calls “an almost fanatical exactitude,” driving locksmiths and engineers to tears as they sought to meet his seemingly impossible standards. The unpainted tubular door-handle that Wittgenstein designed for Gretl’s house remains the prototype for all such door-handles, still popular in the twenty-first century.
Theatre of the Actors of Regard, Seating Viewed in Upright Position
(The Admissions of Wittgenstein), 1951 - note door handle
(Thomas Bernhard was surely evoking his idol, Wittgenstein, when he told a friend that the only way to find an exact replacement for a broken window-handle would be to find another, identical broken window-handle.)
Monk argues, more than once, that this design project brought Wittgenstein “back” to philosophy.
to the German sociologist Georg Simmel...
In his brilliant 1911 essay “The Handle,” Simmel argued that the handle of a vase bridges two worlds,the utilitarian and the non-utilitarian.
Pablo Picasso, Personnage avec mains sur les hanches (Vase with
two high handles), 1953 - note disparate translation handles
A vessel, according to Simmel, “unlike a painting or statue, is not intended to be insulated and untouchable but is meant to fulfill a purpose—if only symbolically. For it is held in the hand and drawn into the movement of practical life.”
Thus the vessel stands in two worlds at one and the same time: whereas reality is completely irrelevant to the “pure” work of art and, as it were, is consumed in it, reality does make claims upon the vase as an object that is handled, filled and emptied, proffered, and set down here and there. This dual nature of the vase is most decisively expressed in its handle.
to Emerson, Stanley Cavell, the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus, Bob Dylan, Thomas De Quincey, Coleridge, Robert Frost, a French-Canadian woodcutter named Baptiste , Elizabeth Bishop’s Crusoe, Gary Snyder who recalls Elias Canetti...
Snyder invokes the idea of literary tradition as a “handing down,” from father to son and from teacher to student, “how we go on.” In such a transfer, the ax stands in for the pen (in a different context, Snyder compared a laptop to a nice little chainsaw). In his seductive praise of the “craft of culture,” Snyder recalls Elias Canetti’s moving assertion: “It is the quiet, prolonged activities of the hand which have created the only world in which we care to live.”
HAND SPACE manifesto, 1981
Is there some unfinished business here?
he asks, and continues...
Was there, for example, any significance to Wittgenstein’s parenthetical joke about handles resembling one another, like brothers and sisters? “We see handles all looking more or less alike. (Naturally, since they are all supposed to be handled.)” For Wittgenstein, those handles seem to come momentarily alive; they’re animated...
Theseus at MoMA : Picasso, Tete de taureau (Bull's Head) 1942
A handle-horned minotaur...
awaits every Theseus...
in the labyrinth of TAR !
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