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Showing posts with label sensual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sensual. Show all posts

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Mind or Matter?





More books.

No matter how many books I acquire, I always have space left in my ‘enthusiasm quota’ to delight in a few extra to add to my library.  I would like to say that I am a discriminating purchaser, but I realize that what I actually am is an omnivorous bibliophile.  I find no problem in finding a reason to purchase a book and am an extremely good fabricator of justifications.

My self-imposed task of writing a short monograph on the famously un-famous German painter Adam Elsheimer has given me the ideal opportunity to spend more and have volumes winging their way to me.

Resultado de imagen de adam elsheimer booksThe most substantial book is the truly excellent catalogue that accompanied the 2006 exhibition of Elsheimer’s work shown in Edinburgh, Dulwich and Frankfurt – a scholarly and exhaustive work extending the pioneering efforts of Keith Andrews.  This is going to be a key book in my research.

Resultado de imagen de adam elsheimer booksThe second of my new volumes is a very much smaller books called “Lives of Adam Elsheimer” that is a compilation of early biographers of the artist translated by Keith Andrews with an introduction by Claire Pace.  It’s under a hundred pages long, but is an invaluable source of documentation of contemporary information.


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The last if a book from the past, one of a series of large format magazines that comprised the series of “The Masters” published in Britain in 1966.  This one is number 53 “Elsheimer”, 14 colour prints with an introduction by Malcolm Waddingham.  Originally each of the issues cost the princely sum of 6/- (six shillings or 30p) though I paid considerably more than that and for a second-hand copy too!  Though I do have some of the other issues that I bought at the time.

I now have three books that deal principally with the artist and a series of other publications that mention him.  My reading so far has given me a clearer idea of the artist himself and also is beginning to suggest a way of approaching the writing I intend to do.

Or I could just sunbathe!

The flesh is willing, but in my view, it is still far too pale to be acceptable and autumn is almost upon us and lazing time has its expiration date.

One has to make a judgement between the intellectual and the sensual and, as the most interesting thing that I have experienced today is evaluating the new non-alcoholic G&T (not convincing) it perhaps gives you some idea of where my priorities lie!