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SOURCE: BBC (8-5-09)
A character in I Love You Man says he named his dog Anwar Sadat because he looks "exactly" like the former leader.
The lawyer, Samir Sabri, has demanded an inquiry into the showing of the film and asked the US embassy for an apology, Masrawy website reports.
Several Egyptian bloggers say the film is an insult to their country.
The character, played by Jason Segel, says his dog is a cross between a beagle and a pug and is "the most beautiful dog in the world".
He says it is called "Anwar Sadat: after Anwar Sadat, the former president of Egypt".
When asked by his co-star, Paul Rudd, whether this is because he admires Mr Sadat's policies, he replies: "No, because they look exactly alike" and the film cuts to a shot of the dog.
A later scene shows the character also has a poster of Mr Sadat on the wall of his home.
Several Egyptian bloggers have complained...
The lawyer, Samir Sabri, has demanded an inquiry into the showing of the film and asked the US embassy for an apology, Masrawy website reports.
Several Egyptian bloggers say the film is an insult to their country.
The character, played by Jason Segel, says his dog is a cross between a beagle and a pug and is "the most beautiful dog in the world".
He says it is called "Anwar Sadat: after Anwar Sadat, the former president of Egypt".
When asked by his co-star, Paul Rudd, whether this is because he admires Mr Sadat's policies, he replies: "No, because they look exactly alike" and the film cuts to a shot of the dog.
A later scene shows the character also has a poster of Mr Sadat on the wall of his home.
Several Egyptian bloggers have complained...
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 19:51
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SOURCE: Guardian (UK) (8-6-09)
Although Disraeli, Darwin, Lewis Carroll, Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Queen of Hawaii have been unable to accept the invitation to Lord Alfred Tennyson's birthday party today, his library on the Isle of Wight will again be full of distinguished guests talking of literature, science and art.
A private passion for Victorian art has given rise to a new museum at Farringford House, Tennyson's home of 40 years, opening today to mark the bicentenary of the birth of a giant of the Victorian literary scene. Furniture including his writing desk and chair, and portraits – by his friend GF Watts – of the poet, his wife and their sons, have come back to the house for the first time in over a century.
The poet laureate was an A-list celebrity of his day, hounded by fans. His works, including The Charge of the Light Brigade, Maud, In Memoriam and his Arthurian cycle, Idylls of the King, were read by millions, recited, painted, sung and dramatised. He moved to Isle of Wight in...
A private passion for Victorian art has given rise to a new museum at Farringford House, Tennyson's home of 40 years, opening today to mark the bicentenary of the birth of a giant of the Victorian literary scene. Furniture including his writing desk and chair, and portraits – by his friend GF Watts – of the poet, his wife and their sons, have come back to the house for the first time in over a century.
The poet laureate was an A-list celebrity of his day, hounded by fans. His works, including The Charge of the Light Brigade, Maud, In Memoriam and his Arthurian cycle, Idylls of the King, were read by millions, recited, painted, sung and dramatised. He moved to Isle of Wight in...
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 19:05
SOURCE: Times (UK) (8-7-09)
It seems that everyone had a plot to kill Hitler, not just the patriotic aristocrat Claus von Stauffenberg, portrayed by Tom Cruise in Valkyrie. Even Grandpa Simpson in the August issue of Simpsons comics (No 161) takes Hitler on as a young infantryman in the Second World War. Disguising himself as cheese and getting himself served at dinner at Hitler’s Berlin residence, where he has a clear shot not only at Hitler, but at Mussolini, Prime Minister Tojo of Japan and Flash Gordon’s enemy Ming the Merciless.
More soberly, the 40 documented plots against Hitler’s life, as well as copious details about his personal goon squads (uncovered in recently captured records from SS files), are presented in a revelatory new DVD boxed set of documentaries called Hitler’s Bodyguard. Compiled by the producers of Churchill’s Bodyguard and First World War in Colour, the four-disc set contains 13 episodes in all, lasting more than ten hours.
The series is well narrated by the...
More soberly, the 40 documented plots against Hitler’s life, as well as copious details about his personal goon squads (uncovered in recently captured records from SS files), are presented in a revelatory new DVD boxed set of documentaries called Hitler’s Bodyguard. Compiled by the producers of Churchill’s Bodyguard and First World War in Colour, the four-disc set contains 13 episodes in all, lasting more than ten hours.
The series is well narrated by the...
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 18:56
SOURCE: NYT (8-4-09)
Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs are the subject and the author of two of the most indelible nonfiction books of the 20th century: Robert Caro’s biography of Moses, “The Power Broker” (1974) and Jacobs’s own “Death and Life of Great American Cities” (1961). If you want to know about these towering oppositional figures, those are the bedrock texts, and neither feels remotely like homework: they’re as alive today as when they were written.
It’s not immediately clear, in other words, why anyone needs a book like Anthony Flint’s well-carpentered but breezy “Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City.”
Yet Mr. Flint, a former reporter for The Boston Globe, makes an interesting case for his book’s relevance. He points out the curious fact that Jacobs is not mentioned once in “The Power Broker.” Mr. Caro had devoted an entire chapter to her in his original manuscript, but for space reasons it was cut from the...
It’s not immediately clear, in other words, why anyone needs a book like Anthony Flint’s well-carpentered but breezy “Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City.”
Yet Mr. Flint, a former reporter for The Boston Globe, makes an interesting case for his book’s relevance. He points out the curious fact that Jacobs is not mentioned once in “The Power Broker.” Mr. Caro had devoted an entire chapter to her in his original manuscript, but for space reasons it was cut from the...
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 01:28
SOURCE: NYT (8-5-09)
Budd Schulberg, who wrote the award-winning screenplay for “On the Waterfront” and created a classic American archetype of naked ambition, Sammy Glick, in his novel “What Makes Sammy Run?,” died on Wednesday. He was 95 and lived in the Brookside section of Westhampton Beach, N.Y.
His death was confirmed by his wife, Betsy.
Mr. Schulberg also wrote journalism, short stories, novels and biographies. He collaborated with F. Scott Fitzgerald, arrested the Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and named names before a Communist-hunting Congressional committee. But he was best known for writing some of the most famous lines in the history of the movies.
Some were delivered by Marlon Brando playing the longshoreman Terry Malloy in the 1954 film “On the Waterfront.” Malloy had lost a shot at a prizefighting title by taking a fall for easy money. ...
His death was confirmed by his wife, Betsy.
Mr. Schulberg also wrote journalism, short stories, novels and biographies. He collaborated with F. Scott Fitzgerald, arrested the Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and named names before a Communist-hunting Congressional committee. But he was best known for writing some of the most famous lines in the history of the movies.
Some were delivered by Marlon Brando playing the longshoreman Terry Malloy in the 1954 film “On the Waterfront.” Malloy had lost a shot at a prizefighting title by taking a fall for easy money. ...
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 01:25
SOURCE: Artdaily.org (8-5-09)
Katharine Hepburn’s record four Best Actress Academy Awards will go on display at the National Portrait Gallery Aug. 4, offering visitors a unique, close-up look at the Oscar and how it has changed over the years. Hepburn won the first of her Best Actress Academy Awards for the 1933 film “Morning Glory.” This statuette on display is a legend in itself. A young Hollywood journalist named Sidney Skolsky, in writing his story about the proceedings of the 1934 Academy Awards, borrowed a colloquial stage name often used among performers and wrote, “Katharine Hepburn received the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in ‘Morning Glory.’” Consequently, this statuette was the first to be named “Oscar.”
The Oscar statuette was designed in 1927 by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by George Stanley. The figure stands on a film reel with five spokes, signifying the original branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: actors, directors, producers,...
The Oscar statuette was designed in 1927 by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by George Stanley. The figure stands on a film reel with five spokes, signifying the original branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: actors, directors, producers,...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 08:59
SOURCE: Artdaily.org (8-5-09)
International Slavery Museum is celebrating reaching the finals of The National Lottery Awards 2009.
The museum is the only project in Liverpool and the North West in the Best Heritage Project category and is competing against just two other projects for the chance to win the award, decided by a public vote.
Richard Benjamin, head of the International Slavery Museum said: "To reach the final of The National Lottery Awards is a clear indication of the large amount of public support the International Slavery Museum receives. Our role as a campaigning museum, challenging contemporary issues such as racism and discrimination and working to raise awareness of the blight of contemporary slavery both in the UK and internationally, is clearly one that has a resonance with the public...
The museum is the only project in Liverpool and the North West in the Best Heritage Project category and is competing against just two other projects for the chance to win the award, decided by a public vote.
Richard Benjamin, head of the International Slavery Museum said: "To reach the final of The National Lottery Awards is a clear indication of the large amount of public support the International Slavery Museum receives. Our role as a campaigning museum, challenging contemporary issues such as racism and discrimination and working to raise awareness of the blight of contemporary slavery both in the UK and internationally, is clearly one that has a resonance with the public...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 08:57
SOURCE: Times (UK) (8-4-09)
Quentin Tarantino makes no apology for trading fact for fun in the finale of his Nazi thriller Inglourious Basterds. Caroline White presents ten more films whose makers felt they could improve on history.
1 U-571, 2000
Rather cynically, American screenwriter David Ayer depicted American rather than British naval officers capturing the first Enigma machine, “in order to drive the movie for an American audience.” The first Enigma machine was in fact seized by officers from HMS Bulldog in 1941 and by the time the USA joined the war later that year, Britain had cracked the code. The post-release furore led Tony Blair, Prime Minister at the time, to agree that it was “an affront to the memories” of those involved and Bill Clinton, then US President, to write a letter emphasising the film’s fictional nature. In 2006, Ayer told the BBC he had come to regret the alteration: “Both my grandparents were officers in World War II, and I would be personally offended if somebody...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 08:42
SOURCE: Times (UK) (8-5-09)
Radiohead today launched a sombre musical tribute to Harry Patch, Britain’s longest surviving soldier from the First World War, who died last month.
The track, Harry Patch (In Memory Of), warns of the horrors of war. It was recorded live in an abbey a few weeks before the veteran’s death on July 25.
The singer Thom Yorke said he was inspired to compose the piece after hearing an interview with Mr Patch - affectionately known as the “Last Tommy” - a few years ago...
The track, Harry Patch (In Memory Of), warns of the horrors of war. It was recorded live in an abbey a few weeks before the veteran’s death on July 25.
The singer Thom Yorke said he was inspired to compose the piece after hearing an interview with Mr Patch - affectionately known as the “Last Tommy” - a few years ago...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 08:34
SOURCE: Daily Mail (UK) (8-5-09)
This stunning recreation of the Mona Lisa has been made with a staggering 3,604 cups of coffee - and 564 pints of milk.
The different colours were created by adding varying amounts of milk to each cup of black coffee.
It measures an impressive 20ft by13ft – nearly ten times the size of Leonardo da Vinci’s original masterpiece - and took a team of eight people three hours to complete.
It was created for The Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, and was seen by 130,000 people who attended the one-day coffee-lovers’ event.
Elaine Kelly, from organisers the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, was delighted with the result.
She said: ‘Each coffee cup was filled with varying amounts of milk to create the different sepia shades of the painting...
The different colours were created by adding varying amounts of milk to each cup of black coffee.
It measures an impressive 20ft by13ft – nearly ten times the size of Leonardo da Vinci’s original masterpiece - and took a team of eight people three hours to complete.
It was created for The Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, and was seen by 130,000 people who attended the one-day coffee-lovers’ event.
Elaine Kelly, from organisers the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, was delighted with the result.
She said: ‘Each coffee cup was filled with varying amounts of milk to create the different sepia shades of the painting...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 08:20
SOURCE: Guardian (UK) (8-3-09)
In the early 19th century, the quality of London's air was so bad that acidic carbon fumes ate into the varnishes of oil paintings, scarring great masterpieces for ever. If you had a Rubens or two, it was wise to get them out into the country, away from the effects of the industrial revolution. It was this that made the art dealer Noel Desenfans and his companion Francis Bourgeois choose Dulwich – a sleepy place then, outside the capital – as a permanent home for their collection. Today, the two founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery lie entombed in the building. You pass through the mausoleum in Best of British, a lovely new exhibition with a lousy name that tells how this gallery ended up with such an eccentric, rich and thought-provoking collection of British paintings.
Desenfans and Bourgeois didn't actually collect British art. They founded Dulwich to house their European masterpieces, by Rubens, Rembrandt, Guido Reni. British art was still just beginning to be taken...
Desenfans and Bourgeois didn't actually collect British art. They founded Dulwich to house their European masterpieces, by Rubens, Rembrandt, Guido Reni. British art was still just beginning to be taken...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 09:07
SOURCE: Times (UK) (8-4-09)
Looking back, the producers of a new film about John Lennon must wonder what stopped them from hiring Sam Taylor-Wood straight away.
Nowhere Boy will have its world premiere at The Times BFI London Film Festival in October, thanks in large part to the expectation surrounding the artist’s feature debut as a director.
Taylor-Wood said yesterday that she was not the first choice for the project and had to “stalk” the producers until they caved in. “Ecosse Films knew it was a good project and were rightly nervous about using a first-time director. But I’m quite determined and nothing could get in my way. I wrote countless e-mails and sent them ideas so that they could start to see the vision I had.
“I think in the end they probably got a bit scared of me. One of the producers said, ‘I feel like the target of an Exocet missile’. I really stalked them until they gave it to me.”
She also contacted Paul McCartney, who became a key source of...
Nowhere Boy will have its world premiere at The Times BFI London Film Festival in October, thanks in large part to the expectation surrounding the artist’s feature debut as a director.
Taylor-Wood said yesterday that she was not the first choice for the project and had to “stalk” the producers until they caved in. “Ecosse Films knew it was a good project and were rightly nervous about using a first-time director. But I’m quite determined and nothing could get in my way. I wrote countless e-mails and sent them ideas so that they could start to see the vision I had.
“I think in the end they probably got a bit scared of me. One of the producers said, ‘I feel like the target of an Exocet missile’. I really stalked them until they gave it to me.”
She also contacted Paul McCartney, who became a key source of...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:37
SOURCE: Times (UK) (8-4-09)
An award-winning author who has written ground-breaking biographies of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys is turning her attention to another literary giant — Charles Dickens.
Scholars said yesterday that Claire Tomalin was “the ideal person” to chronicle the novelist’s life. She is already revered by Dickens enthusiasts for her 1990 account of his relationship with the young actress Ellen Ternan, for which she won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
“I have every expectation that Claire’s biography will be a very substantial and interesting work,” said Paul Schlicke, former president of the International Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America. “She is known to be a major biographer. The book is certain to be well written, well researched and accurate. It will be most welcome.”..
Scholars said yesterday that Claire Tomalin was “the ideal person” to chronicle the novelist’s life. She is already revered by Dickens enthusiasts for her 1990 account of his relationship with the young actress Ellen Ternan, for which she won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
“I have every expectation that Claire’s biography will be a very substantial and interesting work,” said Paul Schlicke, former president of the International Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America. “She is known to be a major biographer. The book is certain to be well written, well researched and accurate. It will be most welcome.”..
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:31
SOURCE: Telegraph (UK) (8-3-09)
I hate Edinburgh. Loathe it. Whatever the time of year, no city centre in Europe – not even Amsterdam’s – is anything like as sordid, but during the festival, which starts this week, it turns into my idea of hell-on-earth. From the instant you step off the train at Waverley station, the awfulness of the place hits you between the eyes: the teeth-clenching whine of bagpipes played for a surging tide of moronic tourists; the aggressive young beggars and organised gangs of down-and-outs assailing you at every corner; the no-talent street performers, the grubby outdoor cafes, the noise, the dirt, the bad hotels, and the awful food.
This year, a month-long strike by sanitation workers has added yet another reason to avoid Edinburgh at all costs: garbage. There are mounds of it piled up in the streets and silting up the gutters, blowing in your face and whipping at your heels. Everywhere you look you see plastic bin bags gnawed by rats or split open by seagulls, their foul...
This year, a month-long strike by sanitation workers has added yet another reason to avoid Edinburgh at all costs: garbage. There are mounds of it piled up in the streets and silting up the gutters, blowing in your face and whipping at your heels. Everywhere you look you see plastic bin bags gnawed by rats or split open by seagulls, their foul...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:27
SOURCE: Telegraph (UK) (8-3-09)
Its first feature movie, which opened in the Gaza Strip at the weekend, celebrates the short and violent life of one of its militants.
Audiences reportedly cheered during its premiere at the weekend when one of the characters announced, "To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God."
The film, titled "Imad Aqel," was filmed on the grounds of Gnai Tal, one of the Jewish settlements evacuated in 2005 when Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip. It tells the story of the founding of Hamas in the 1980s and how the religious movement turned political. It also depicts the attacks Mr Aqel launched on Israeli targets. He is thought to have killed thirteen Israelis in all, both civilians and soldiers before being killed himself by Israeli forces in 1993 at the age of 22.
The foray into feature films is part of a larger new strategy by the party that controls Gaza Strip, to focus on what its officials have called "a culture of resistance....
Audiences reportedly cheered during its premiere at the weekend when one of the characters announced, "To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God."
The film, titled "Imad Aqel," was filmed on the grounds of Gnai Tal, one of the Jewish settlements evacuated in 2005 when Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip. It tells the story of the founding of Hamas in the 1980s and how the religious movement turned political. It also depicts the attacks Mr Aqel launched on Israeli targets. He is thought to have killed thirteen Israelis in all, both civilians and soldiers before being killed himself by Israeli forces in 1993 at the age of 22.
The foray into feature films is part of a larger new strategy by the party that controls Gaza Strip, to focus on what its officials have called "a culture of resistance....
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:23
SOURCE: Artdaily.org (8-3-09)
A new exhibition at St. Barbe Museum focuses on the work of two artists who capitalised on national pride and interest in a growing maritime empire to create the first truly British school of marine painting. Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749) and Charles Brooking (1723 - 1759) created timelessly evocative representation of Britain’s maritime power that combined atmospheric effect and accurately rendered ships.
Britain produced a whole series of superb marine painters during the 18th century but they have often been overlooked by the art establishment. This exhibition will feature forty paintings featuring many of the most important works by each artist and some of their contemporaries. It will include stunning examples of their work from the collections of the Tate and the National Maritime Museum plus paintings from private collections which are not normally accessible to the public.
Charles Brooking died young but his output during his brief career marks him out...
Britain produced a whole series of superb marine painters during the 18th century but they have often been overlooked by the art establishment. This exhibition will feature forty paintings featuring many of the most important works by each artist and some of their contemporaries. It will include stunning examples of their work from the collections of the Tate and the National Maritime Museum plus paintings from private collections which are not normally accessible to the public.
Charles Brooking died young but his output during his brief career marks him out...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:18
SOURCE: Artdaily.org (8-3-09)
This October, the Portland Art Museum will present a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view Raphael's renowned painting The Woman with a Veil. This single-painting exhibition will bring one of the most important paintings of the Renaissance to Oregon for the first time.
The Woman with a Veil (la velata or la donna velata) was painted in 1516 and depicts a serene woman looking intently at the viewer. It is believed that the model for the painting is the same woman depicted in other Raphael works including La Fornarina. Scholars have suggested that the woman was Raphael’s lover, Margherita Luti.
The Woman with the Veil’s perfect harmony and balance beautifully capture the fundamental principles of the High Renaissance. Raphael demonstrates his brilliance at sfumato, an Italian term for a painting technique often associated with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, whereby lightly applied layers of color are used to capture light and articulate volume and form....
The Woman with a Veil (la velata or la donna velata) was painted in 1516 and depicts a serene woman looking intently at the viewer. It is believed that the model for the painting is the same woman depicted in other Raphael works including La Fornarina. Scholars have suggested that the woman was Raphael’s lover, Margherita Luti.
The Woman with the Veil’s perfect harmony and balance beautifully capture the fundamental principles of the High Renaissance. Raphael demonstrates his brilliance at sfumato, an Italian term for a painting technique often associated with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, whereby lightly applied layers of color are used to capture light and articulate volume and form....
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:17
SOURCE: Artdaily.org (8-4-09)
Loss and Liberty, a powerful new collection of ceramic artworks and poems produced by offenders at Wandsworth Prison, goes on display at Museum of London Docklands in its London Sugar & Slavery gallery from 5 Aug – 30 Nov 2009. Inspired by the themes in the gallery, the display makes personal connections between the artists’ lives and the history of transatlantic enslavement. It builds on the long-term relationship between the Museum and Wandsworth prison.
The 15 works on show are diverse and striking, from expressive portraits to symbolic pieces representing the experiences and legacies of slavery. The Wandsworth inmates collaborated with staff involved in the creation of the gallery, ceramicist Tunde Akinniranye, sculptor Jennifer Wolf, historian Angelina Osborne and writer Ronnie McGrath. The artworks express the gallery themes that spoke most strongly to the group.
Lucie Fitton, Inclusion Officer, Museum of London Docklands, says: “Loss & Liberty...
The 15 works on show are diverse and striking, from expressive portraits to symbolic pieces representing the experiences and legacies of slavery. The Wandsworth inmates collaborated with staff involved in the creation of the gallery, ceramicist Tunde Akinniranye, sculptor Jennifer Wolf, historian Angelina Osborne and writer Ronnie McGrath. The artworks express the gallery themes that spoke most strongly to the group.
Lucie Fitton, Inclusion Officer, Museum of London Docklands, says: “Loss & Liberty...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:13
SOURCE: Artdaily.org (8-4-09)
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents Styled for the Road: The Art of Automobile Design, 1908-1948, an engaging exploration of automobile design in America from the 1900s through the 1940s. The exhibition, on view from October 16, 2009 through March 14, 2010, highlights the important role played by designers and visual artists in communicating the complex ideas that guided the development of automobiles, roadways, service stations, and advertising materials.
More than eighty skillfully and elegantly rendered design drawings—most presented publicly for the first time—demonstrate how the design of automobiles changed dramatically through styling, as well as how the automobile exerted a profound impact on the built environment and on American culture. Created by industrial designers, architects, draftsmen, and illustrators, each original design drawing—whether a conceptual idea for styling a car’s fender, an illustration of a new car for a marketing...
More than eighty skillfully and elegantly rendered design drawings—most presented publicly for the first time—demonstrate how the design of automobiles changed dramatically through styling, as well as how the automobile exerted a profound impact on the built environment and on American culture. Created by industrial designers, architects, draftsmen, and illustrators, each original design drawing—whether a conceptual idea for styling a car’s fender, an illustration of a new car for a marketing...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:12
SOURCE: Artdaily.org (8-4-09)
Battles, celebrations, and fantastic creatures found in the margins of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are closely examined in Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, September 1 through November 8, 2009, Out-of-Bounds explores the margins of medieval books and explains their wealth of subject matter: children playing games, romantic pursuits, men battling fantastic creatures, and composite figures—half-human, half-beast—that pervade the blank spaces of the margins or wend their ways through the sinuous foliage of the painted borders.
The great age of marginalia (Latin for “things in the margins”) took place during the Gothic period (1200s–1300s). Artists during this time took particular advantage of the blank spaces around the text to delight, amuse, and occasionally educate readers. Out-of-Bounds not only features examples of marginalia in the Gothic era but also traces the pre-history...
The great age of marginalia (Latin for “things in the margins”) took place during the Gothic period (1200s–1300s). Artists during this time took particular advantage of the blank spaces around the text to delight, amuse, and occasionally educate readers. Out-of-Bounds not only features examples of marginalia in the Gothic era but also traces the pre-history...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:10
