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For the Love of Books, Publishing and Design
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“ ‘But I like you.’ He cleared his throat. ‘I like you first and second and third.’
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via larmoyante)
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How beautiful is this wallpaper from Graham & Brown called Goddess: Dawn! The trees come to life revealing beautiful faces hidden among the branches.
A manuscript page from Heinrich Böll’s Vermintes Gelände, published in 1982.
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Reading (1890). Ilya Galkin (Russian, 1860-1915).
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” -- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)
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Christian Boltanski - Kaddish (published in 1998) - Objects confiscated by Nazis, some found in sewers, deposited in the Central Jewish Museum, Prague
“The banal tenor and specificity of context in Boltanski’s still-lifes introduce an interesting dialogue as the tonality and depth, or lack thereof, in his photographs render what are reasonably delicate subjects, into mute and objectified echos from a nonspecific time or place. Boltanski’s infatuation with confiscated war relics, (post-) belongings and objet trouvé presented throughout his tetrad make reference to the anonymity and translucence of memory, the interstitial space between sentimentality and indifference, and ultimately focus on transience, singularity and, often forced, despondency.
Having absented himself from formal education in his preteens, Boltanski moved from rudimentary sculpture, drawing and painting to installations of pensive and introspective sculptural, filmic, and photographic works, questioning his own substance and significance in relation to memory, lineage and cultural praxis.
When Boltanski’s work seems to display a profound melancholy or contemplation on histories past, it is the artist who abruptly categorizes his works as quotidian debris, coincidence or ‘stupid’ objects – stating that that it is ‘simply much easier to be dead, than to be alive.’”
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Giant wooden spheres made from interlocking wood by Korean artist and sculptor Lee Jae-Hyo
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“ It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the greatest sins of the world take place.
Oscar Wilde
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This one has come highly recommended from my brother.
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