“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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cara barer, 2004-2005
some works by cara barer from 2004-2005. how striking are these pictures? a different way of looking at the beauty of books.
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hah! story of my life. Books ALWAYS come first than clothes. ;)
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Sketchbook for A Midsummer Night’s Dream Arthur Rackham ca.1908
“Born in 1867, Arthur Rackham entered the Lambeth School of Art in 1884. From 1885 to 1892 he worked as a clerk in an insurance office. In 1893 he began what would be his life’s work, illustrating the Ingoldsby Legends, and Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. He became famous with Grimm’s Fairy Tales in 1900, and Rip Van Winkle in 1905, and through an exhibition held at the Leicester Galleries in 1905. The Rackham collection at Columbia University contains 413 drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings, as well as 30 sketch books, including this one of sketches for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In addition, the collection contains some 400 printed books and ephemera.”
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Berol, 1967
Via the online exhibition “Jewels In Her Crown: Treasures of the Columbia University Libraries Special Collections”.
Burning Books.
Woodcut made by by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, Germany, 1493.
Found at Kintzertorium.
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Actually, Anne Bronte wrote about an ‘alcoholic dickbag’ of her own in Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It is one of the worst books I’ve ever read.
