SIGMAR POLKE: DAPHNE

Daphne by Sigmar Polke, Snoeck Publishers, Ghent, 2004, 440 pages, edition of 1000 copies, signed by the artist. This is no. 742

"Created directly by Polke himself, Daphne is a book with 23 chapters illustrated in large-format photocopies. Each "copy" of the book differs, as each has been photocopied and manipulated individually, pulled from the machine by the hand and watchful eye of the artist".

SIGMAR POLKE

Sigmar Polke, Höhere Wesen befehlen (Higher Beings Ordain), 1968

Sigmar Polke (alchemist) 1941-2010

The Ants

back cover of The Ants (Adventures in Nature and Science series), Children's Press, Chicago, 1961

D.S.

Hand by David Shrigley, BQ, Cologne, 2008 (german language!)

DESIGN A SPACE

Manspace by Alec Allinson, Beverly Allinson, and John McInnes, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ontario, 1973

"Well---you see---everybody's in space. This book tells about the space around you, how much space you need and how it works. Sometimes you're all squashed in and sometimes you have plenty of room to turn cartwheels and play games. It's about why we get close to each other and why we sometimes keep our distance. Then there's homespace---the space we live in---and homes on the move---and public space, like streets and parks---and crowds and overcrowding and pollution---and all things that happen on our earth"

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title page detail from How To Make Something From Nothing by Ruth Stearns Egge, Coward-McCann, NY, 1968

Polski Las

spread from RAPSOD POLSKI by Bronislaw Dostatni and Jerzy Surdykowski, Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw, 1975

David Dunlap: Small Animals Make First Paths

THIS IS ALWAYS FINISHED (DAVID DUNLAP), Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 1989

artist/teacher/walnut farmer

more about David here and here.

also see Hamlett Dobbins' beautiful studio visit photos, walnut farms 05.17.05 and 10.31.03

les enfants sont tous fous

Brigitte Fontaine: Le Goudron/Les Beaux Animaux, Saravah, 1969

Daniel Manus Pinkwater

back cover of The Magic Moscow, 1980

The Big Orange Splot, 1977

After finding a copy of Doodle Flute and hearing about The Big Orange Splot (here and here), I started finding his books all over. Among them was Lizard Music, his pre-teen novel from 1976. In one passage, Charlie "The Chicken Man" makes reference to René Daumal's Mount Analogue in order to describe the properties of Invisible Island, home of Thunderbolt City, to the main character, an 11 year old with a Walter Cronkite obsession. Incredible. What was I reading when I was 12? Always funny and highly recommended.

Dave The Hermit from Blue Moose, 1975

Tooth-Gnasher Superflash, 1981

Aunt Lulu, 1988

Doodle Flute, 1991

Art Education 3

Growing With Art - Book One: Fun To Begin by Maud Ellsworth and Michael F. Andrews, Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., Chicago, 1950

GOOD MORNING!

Good Morning! by Gyo Fujikawa, Grosset & Dunlap, 1981 (board book using illustrations from her (superior) book Oh, What a Busy Day! from 1975)

Good Morning Fay! 4 weeks old today.

Jessie Oonark

Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective, Jean Blodgett and Marie Bouchard, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1986

(Oonark sewing in her home, 1973/parka, 1969/Big Woman, 1974/ Untitled (wall hanging), 1973/ Untitled, 1974/Oonark painting on a building, Baker Lake, 1968)

Don't let them worry you, they are only my dreams.

see also:

The Prints of Jessie Oonark