YOU ENOCH

Lestrange

I, Enoch — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:37:08 +0000

Etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, partner of the poet Paul Celan.

{Source: the but does it float blog, go there already and lose minutes / hours of your day}

new skeins

I, Enoch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:17:12 +0000

Works by Lucy McRae

{Source: lucymcrae.blogspot.com}

The artist’s tools

I, Enoch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:15:27 +0000

Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858. A synopsis of the diseases of the eye, and their treatment, by Benjamin Travers. 3rd ed.(London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1824).

Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675, Opera omnia (Geneva : Samuel de Tournes, 1676)

Bernard, Claude, 1813-1878, Illustrated manual of operative surgery and surgical anatomy, by Cl. Bernard and Ch. Huette (New York [etc.] : Baillière Brothers, 1861)

{Source: Monash University, “A Doctor’s Delights: Discoveries from the Richard Travers Collection” (online exhibition).}

…like faces there

I, Enoch — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:03:25 +0000

John Stezaker
Mask IV, 2005
Collage, 21×17cm

John Stezaker
Mask II, 1991-2
Collage, 62.5×45cm

John Stezaker
Mask LXV, 2007
Collage, 25.5×20cm

{Source: theapproach.co.uk}

tubers

I, Enoch — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:52:49 +0000

Junior Taxi, found via the brilliant But Does It Float blog (butdoesitfloat.com). I could repost loads of things, but just go there yourself and waste hours of your day.

{Source: “Our environment is a complex of frequencies and angles” found on butdoesitfloat.com but originally posted within the Junior Taxi portfolio}

literal

I, Enoch — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:13:07 +0000

Penguin’s cover for Walter Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

{via We Made This}

Fidag: Answer at Once

I, Enoch — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:22:14 +0000

James Castle, Untitled (artist’s book), undated.

{Source: Art Institute of Chicago, “James Castle: A Retrospective” exhibit page}

“James Castle: A Retrospective” opens October 10, 2009 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

swallow

I, Enoch — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:01:20 +0000

“Underwater wipeout in Tahiti,” photographed by Brian Bielmann via the NYTimes.com “Lens” blog.

See Bielmann’s website here.

{Source: NYTimes.com (linked image file)}

If there was a fire, our friends would paint us new ones

I, Enoch — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:54:30 +0000

A 1961 Robert Rauschenberg work given to John Cage, part of Merce Cunningham and Cage’s personal collection.

{Source: NYTimes.com “Art Among Friends Is Up for Sale” by Carol Vogel, Sept. 21, 2009.}

Missing Merce

I, Enoch — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:00:13 +0000

Merce Cunningham in a photograph ca. 1950. (Photo: Larry Cowell)

Mr. Cunningham, dancing solo in “Changeling.” (Photo: Merce Cunningham Dance Company)

Mr. Cunningham in “Antic Meet” with design by Robert Rauschenberg, in 1958. (Photo: Richard Rutledge)

John Cage, left, Cunningham, center, and Rauschenberg in London in 1964. (Photo: Douglas H. Jeffrey/Courtesy of The John Cage Trust)

“Occasion Piece,” a duet featuring Cunningham and Mikhail Baryshnikov at Lincoln Center, on Merce’s 80th birthday, 1999. (Photo: Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)

{Source: NYTimes.com slide-show accompanying “Merce Cunningham, Dance Visionary, Dies” written by Alastair Macaulay, July 27, 2009)