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.
During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism. (Part 2)
Memory Holloway, 'The School of Cool'
The Age : 3 August 1983
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During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism.
John McDonald, 'A hollow, self-conscious laugh'
SMH : 21 November 1987
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From a recent post at Tim Entwisle's Talking Plants blog,about the Red Ironbark trees of central Victoria :
Bendigo, Castlemaine, Chiltern... Red Ironbark wood is a 'handsome Australian hardwood', with excellent durability and strength - hence its use in wharves, bridges, railway sleepers and mining - as well as some beauty in crafted furniture and flooring. The species name, sideroxylon, translates as 'wood like iron'.
The Red Ironbark grown in streets and parks is the widespread
Eucalyptus sideroxylon subspecies sideroxylon.
Ranks in botany Wikipedia According to Art 3.1 of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) the most important ranks of taxa are:
kingdom, division or phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
According to Art 4.1 the secondary ranks of taxa are :
tribe, section, series, variety and form.
There is an indeterminate number of ranks.
The ICN explicitly mentions:[5]
primary ranks
- secondary ranks
- further ranks
kingdom (regnum)
- subregnum
division or phylum (divisio, phylum)
- subdivisio or subphylum
class (classis)
- subclassis
order (ordo)
- subordo
family (familia)
- subfamilia
- tribe (tribus)
- subtribus
genus (genus)
- subgenus
- section (sectio)
- subsection
- series (series)
- subseries
species (species)
- subspecies
- variety (varietas)
- subvarietas
- form (forma)
- subforma
There is an indeterminate number of ranks (part 2) :
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collection FIAPCE
CLICK for full image by Nagasawa ROSETSU (1754-1799) and poem by Yotsubo Tsubo aka Yoyotsubo (1756-1834)
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Edwin Hatch unmasked
1878 author of
Breathe on me, Breath of God
- Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Fill me with life anew,
That I may love what Thou dost love,
And do what Thou wouldst do. - Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Until my heart is pure,
Until with Thee I will one will,
To do and to endure. - Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Till I am wholly Thine,
Until this earthly part of me
Glows with Thy fire divine. - Breathe on me, Breath of God,
So shall I never die,
But live with Thee the perfect life
Of Thine eternity.
H M Bateman unmasked
1916 author of
The Boy who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum : An Ante-Bellum Tragedy.
Henry Mayo Bateman b.1887, Sutton Forest, NSWIt all began so innocently for the boy about to breathe on the glass at the British Museum...
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"Breathe on me ...
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So begins a hard life under the Law ...
] see the full story here (
Joseph Campbell unmasked
1959-1968 author of
The Masks of God
ex libris FIAPCE
COVID-19 lockdown protester immasked x VicPol
third-person singular simple present immasks
present participle immasking
simple past and past participle immasked
Police place a face mask on an arrested protester at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne during an anti-lockdown rally protesting the state's strict lockdown laws as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Yours faithfully,
Editor
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Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization, David Joselit (2020)
'In my discipline, philosophy, thanks to such diverse figures as Kant, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein, along with the logical positivists and the Frankfurt School, self-critique has long been the name of the game. Joselit extends those critical concerns to global art history in a dramatic, unexpected way.'
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lightning and the moon --
two views,
and a third
collection FIAPCE
Shirō Inoue (1742 - 1812) and Tani Bunchō (1763 - 1841)
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The Feed (2019)
Roy Lichtenstein (1961)
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On looking deeper into Victor Hovland's TAR
"double-pump" action :
for Peter Jones
Roy Lichtenstein, Coup de Chapeau (Self-Portrait), 1996
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