sleepy ray of light

[theleoisallinthemind]

Tanguy Troude

[grandrieux]

Jacques Rivette, ‘La Belle Noiseuse’. 1991.

[theleoisallinthemind]

Dabin Ahn

[thebeautifulbook]

THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare (NY, London: Hodder Stoughton, 1915). Illustrations by Edmund Dulac

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Edmund Dulac was French illustrator of English books. He was born in Toulouse, South of France in 1882. He studied law while he attended classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, also in Toulouse.

[thebeautifulbook]

LULLABY-LAND, SONGS OF CHILDHOOD by Eugene Field. (New York: Scribners, 1899) Binding design and illustrations by Charles Robinson. Link to 1900 Canadian edition.

[along-the-meadow-path]

Vintage Book Covers on the Internet Archive + Pine Green

(XXX,XXX,XXX)

[calming-chaos]

[books-and-cookies]

what a harrowing, fantastic, haunting book

[wxmatija]

[daryaozero]

Образ https://www.instagram.com/p/CiD9i9kDTmM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[daryaozero]

Образи передчуттів, нав’язливи думки, обривки станів . Спроби анімації своїх артів https://www.instagram.com/p/ChCQ_hKjK9g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[equatorjournal]

Jo holding the mask of an idol.

“The wildlife of the Ivory Coast and a tribe called the Baule… Dr. Grzimek made two expeditions to the Ivory Coast, in order to study its animals in their natural state. Both times he lived with the Baule, made many journeys into the interior, and had fascinating experiences with wild animals.”

From “He and I and the elephants” by Bernhard Grzimek, 1967. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClUPoG6N5o_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[equatorjournal]

Leaf catamaran craft lesson on Anuta, 1976.

From “Taboo” by Wolfgang Hausner". https://www.instagram.com/p/ClW0ZgvNMVh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[equatorjournal]

Portrait of Legong Keraton Dancer.

From “Bali, a Garden of Eden”, 1937. Brochure KPM.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Clt9kEaNHsL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[equatorjournal]

Ife heads showing their comparative sizes. On the extreme left is the reproduction, in the Oni’s possession, of the so-called Olokun head.

“…This third study, Bronzes of West Africa, gives us the opportunity of examining the assumed connection between West African art and the intellectual abstractions of Europe, and of finding it a heresy. Bini art is the unique example of the insubordination of rational sensation to intellectual form. In the hankering after "abstract” form in modern art, the intellect with arrogant confidence attempts to storm the citadel of rational expression to re-enter it by the tortuous path of psychoanalysis. This present study will show Bini artists emerging unsusceptible to an intellectual abstraction (earlier than our own, that is comparative measurement in the classical style they met at Ife). Bini art is an early example of the failure of the intellect to restrict the expression of rational emotion…“

From "Bronzes of West Africa” by Leon Underwood, 1949. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6vA1eNhi2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nontemporary]

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[ar-archive]

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[itswadestore]

Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Untitled (Demoiselles de Porto-Novo series), 2012 Courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery.