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YOSHIDA Hodaka（吉田 穂高 Japanese, 1926-1995）

Woodblock prints    here, here and here

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Fisherman of Port Lligat Mending His Net. Salvador Dalí. 1968.

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Asger Jorn. Ainsi on s’Ensor. 1962.

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been reading the origins of political order and stylistically speaking, i’m interested in this tactic of stringing together phrases at the start of each chapter that summarize what will be discussed. it’s unexpected formal creativity for a work of informative non-fiction.

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Lizard at the Brion Cemetery. 2011.

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“...Besides, if I understand it correctly, this book of yours has no need for any of the things you say it lacks, because all of it is an invective against books of chivalry, which Aristotle never thought of, and St. Basil never mentioned, and Cicero never saw, and whose unbelievable absurdities do not enter into the calculations of factual truth, or the observations of astrology; geometrical measurements are of no importance to them, and neither is the refutation of arguments used in rhetoric; there is no reason for your book to preach to anyone, weaving the human with the divine, which is a kind of cloth no Christian intelligence should wear. It only has to make use of mimesis in the writing, and the more precise that is, the better the writing will be. And since this work of yours intends only to undermine the authority and wide acceptance that books of chivalry have in the world and among the public, there is no reason for you to go begging for maxims from philosophers, counsel from Holy Scripture, fictions from poets, orations from rhetoricians, or miracles from saints; instead you should strive, in plain speech, with words that are straightforward, honest, and well-placed, to make your sentences and phrases sonorous and entertaining, and have them portray, as much as you can and as far as it is possible, your intention, making your ideas clear without complicating and obscuring them.”

- Prologue for Don Quixote (trans. Edith Grossman)

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Adolfo Bartolomé García. Variaciones sobre Mantegna. 1968. Based on Barbara of Branderburg and Dwarf by Andrea Mantegna (bottom two images).

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Ángel Robles Quintana. Pueblo en invierno. 20th c.

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Ramón Reig Corominas. Paisaje. 20th century.

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José Hernández Muñoz. Mesa malaya. 1987.

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Cristóbal Vilella. Bodegón de peces, Bodegón de peces y mariscos, Bodegón de peces y moluscos, and Gavilán sobre una langosta. Late 18th century.

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Manuel Mariano Rodríguez. Galería Neoclásica. 1801.

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José López Enguídanos. Familia de esqueletos. 18th century.

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Maestro del Samaritano (llamado). San Andrés. ca. 1615. 

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Rashomon. 1950. Akira Kurosawa.

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The San Francisco Examiner, California, April 20, 1930

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Winter scenes by Eyvind Earle (whose Disney concept art I’ve featured before).