“…there is a degree of bliss too intense for elation.”
-Conrad (25)
Freya of the Seven Isles, Joseph Conrad (Source: goodreads)
First published in January of 1912 in The New York Metropolitan Magazine. This edition was published by Melville House as part of The Art of the Novella Series, 2007.
“…one of Conrad’s most piercing studies of how the lust for power can drive men to greatness- or its opposite” - Melville House Publishing
Joseph Conrad (Source: engl.unt.edu)
Photogram, 1971 (Source: 2headedsnake)
Navigation Without Numbers, 1957 (Source: afterimagegallery.com)
Child in Forest, 1951 (Source: library.ucsc.edu)
Woman and Dog in the Forest, 1953 (Source: frankzumbach.files)
The Tide Pool, 1958 (Source: aquafortevicenza.it)
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These images appear in: Wynn Bullock (Aperture Masters of Photography)
Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration, William E. Jones:
The book compiles 157 never-before-published images created during the early days of the FSA (Farms Security Administration) that were “killed” by director, Roy Stryker, with a hole punch. This volume includes photographs taken by Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott among others.
John Vacon, 1937 (Source: jonnodotcom.tumblr.com)
Theodor Jung, 1935 (Source: crocnique.wordpress.com )
Ben Shahn, 1935 (Source: printedmatter.org )
John Vacon, 1939 (Source: foto8.com )
Wheat Field with Sun and Cloud, 1889 (Source: summerdrawings.blogspot.com)
The Sower, 1888 (Source: arthistory.about.com)
Tree with Ivy in the Asylum Garden, 1889 (Source: learning.fairview.k12.oh.us)
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Images from, Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings: Amazon
“I am not complete in the mind…” -Moya (1)
Senselessness, Horacio Castellanos Moya: New Directions
(Photo Source: The Mookse and the Gripes)
“…only somebody completely out of his mind would be willing to move to a foreign country whose population was not complete in the mind to perform a task that consisted precisely of copyediting an extensive report of one thousand one hundred pages that documents the hundreds of massacres and proves the general perturbation. I am also not complete in the mind…” - Moya (2,3)
Horacio Castellanos Moya (Photo Source: Pittsburgh City Paper)
“The only writer of my generation who knows how to narrate the horror, the secret Vietnam that Latin America was for a long time.”
-Roberto Bolano on Castellanos Moya (Source: rochester.edu)
Bishop Juan Gerardi (Photo Source: Wikipedia)
Gerardi was a human rights activist murdered after the release of Guatemala: Nunca más, a human rights report summarizing the atrocities committed by the military during the Guatemalan Civil War. Senselessness pulls inspiration from this report and is central to its plot.
Victims of the Dos Erres Massacre, 1982 (Source: revista-amauta.org)
Just outside Bagno Vignoni, August 1979 (Source: flavorwire.com)
Just outside Citta Ducale, ‘Church in the Water,’ - November 1982
(Source: iconolo.gy)
Andrey Tarkovsky (Source: mubi.com)
Myasnoye, September 1980 (Source: legrandfigaro.files.wordpress.com)
Bagno Vignoni 1979-1982 (Source: vintage.blox.ua)
San Gregorio, June 24, 1984 (Source: iconolo.gy)
San Gregorio, June 11, 1984 (Source: diphotos.net)
San Gregorio, November 24, 1983 (Source: baroqueinhackney.wordpress.com)
Myasnoye, September 26, 1980 (Source: rathausartprojects.com)
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Images from Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids: Thames and Hudson
“If the artist, or poet, or musician, or dramatist, or philosopher seems somewhat unorthodox in his manner and attitudes, it is because he knows—only a little earlier than the average man—that orthodoxy has destroyed a great deal of human good, whether of charity, or of good sense, or of art.” - The Shape of Content (Shahn, 23)
The Shape of Content, Ben Shahn (Source: allalonetogether.com)
Portrait of Ben Shahn, ca. 1930-1940 (Source: knowla.org)
Sacco and Vanzetti, 1927 (Source: faculty.headroyce.org/)
Amite City, 1935; photograph for the FSA (Source: Shorpy)
July 1938, Ashville, Ohio; photograph for the FSA(Source: shorpy)
Handball, 1939 (Source: cityzenart.blogspot.com)
Peter and the Wolf, 1943 (Source: cityzenart.blogspot.com)
Figure with Ice Cream Cone, ca. 1945 (Source: treadwaygallery)
Break Reaction’s Grip, 1946 (Source: truroculture.org)
Spring, 1946 (Source: afads)
(Source: cityzenart.blogspot.com)
Turtle, 1951 (Source: benedante.blogspot)
Composition for Clarinets and Tin Horn, 1951 (Source: cityzenart.blogspot)
Shahn’s cover for, The Crucial Decade, 1957 (Source: montagueprojectsblog)
H Bomb Poster, 1960 (Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum)
James Chaney, 1965 [Civil rights worker slain during Freedom Summer]
(Source: Skinner)
Beside the Dying, 1968 (Source: liveauctioneers.com)
Suggested Reading:
Ben Shahn, Frances K. Pohl: WorldCat
The Shape of Content, Ben Shahn: WorldCat
The Photographs of Ben Shahn, Timothy Egan: WorldCat
Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn, Susan Chevlowe: WorldCat
Further Reading:
FSA: The American Vision, Gilles Mora; Beverly W Brannan: WorldCat
The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti: WorldCat
“Killed”: rejected images of the Farm Security Administration, William E Jones: WorldCat
Kattresan (Source: wikimedia.org)
Illustration from Kattresan (Source: astridlindgrenmemorialaward)
Ivar Arosenius (Source: Cultured)
Ivar Arosenius (Source: polarbearstale)
Självporträtt med höns och grisar, 1903 (Source: 5.goteborg.se)
Spionerande på kärlekspar, 1902(Source: commons.wikimedia.org)
Porträtt av konstnären Richard Bergh, 1903 (Source: 5.goteberg.se)
“A tiller of the ground, body and soul; a worker on the land without respite. A ghost risen out of the past to point to the future, a man from the earliest days of cultivation, a settler in the wilds, nine hundred years old, and, withal, a man of the day.” - Hamsun (323)
Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsun (Photo Source: Vesterheim)
“Hamsun presents us with the difficulty of separating the pure created object from the impure creative spirit” - Brad Leithauser, Introduction to Growth of the Soil (xiii)
Knut Hamsun (Photo Source: Wikipedia)
“Later a few animals followed the faint tracks over the heaths and moors and made them clearer, and still later a few Lapps began to nose out the path and to use it when they were going from one mountain to another to see to their reindeer. This is how the path through the great common, the no-man’s land owned by no one, came into being.” -Hamsun (3)
Lapps (Photo Source: The Apricity)
Sami Woman, Lisa Congdon (Photo Source:Lisa Congdon)
Sami Woman from Sweden (Photo Source: Saamiblog)
Further Research:
Enigma: the life of Knut Hamsun, Robert Furguson: WorldCat
Knut Hamsun : dreamer and dissenter, Ingar Slettan Kolloen: WorldCat
Lapps and labyrinths : Saami prehistory, colonization and cultural resilience, Noel Broadbent: World Cat
Fragments of Lappish Mythology, Juha Pentikäinen: WorldCat
Sami Culture: University of Texas
Gáldu: Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Galdu
