model for the universe

"I dreamed my model for the universe was much better after I removed several cylinders (each made out of 3 layers of poster board), from the top." , charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 1973

from Jonathan Borofsky by Mark Rosenthal and Richard Marshall, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984

previously: Dreams 1973-1981

puppetry

from The Complete Book of Puppet Theatre by David Currel, A & C Black, London, 1974

misc. bookshelf (hypnotic fencing)

Hypnosis: The Wakeful Sleep by Larry Kettelkamp, William Morrow Co.,NY 1975
Modern Fencing by Michel Alaux, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1975

Pinkwater, 1976

from Lizard Music by Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Dodd, Mead & Co., NY, 1976 (dust jacket back flap)

Pinkwater previously

Ivor Cutler on BBC, VKBMKL

Ivor Cutler drawing, 1961 (from An Elpee and Two Epees, CD reissue, Decca) / Ivor Cutler and Phyllis King at the BBC (archival photo, from the film Looking For Truth With a Pin, 2004)

Me and My Brother, Peel session, 1989
Women of the World, Peel session, 1983. (This is the only version I've heard with Mr. Cutler on vocals. The album and single versions are sung by Linda Hirst.)

Today, I had the honour of guest posting on Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves, Burgin Streetman's incredible website. She's doing important work over there. I can't begin to count the number of books that have entered this house on Burgin's recommendation and I thank her for that. I wrote about Ivor Cutler's first children's book Meal One from 1971. There's almost no information online about his kids' books and I thought it'd be nice to start somewhere.

Although he often included drawings in his poetry books, he didn't illustrate his own children's book, which is a real shame, I think.

And finally, if anyone knows where I can find copies of Herbert The Elephant and Herbert the Chicken (both 1984), illustrated by Alfreda Benge (who also happens to be the partner of Robert Wyatt), please let me know. Those stories were re-illustrated by Patrick Benson in a collection called Herbert: Five Stories (1988). (update: I just found Herbert The Chicken)

previously: Ivor Cutler

Regulate your insults

Louise Bourgeois: Portrait with darned cuffs / Louise's writings to herself / Mantelpiece

from Entrails, Heads & Tails (photographic essays and conversations on the everyday with ten contemporary artists...) by Paola Igliori (with Alastair Thain), Rizzoli, NY, 1992

St. Vital Library

2 stacks from an awesome library sale this morning.

51 books for $10!

Art Education 13 (Lecturer-driver)

"Lecturer-driver welcomes kindergarten children to Southern California's Artmobile."

from Early Childhood Art by Barbara Herberholz, Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, 1974

UN REVE DE VER NU

Rions Noir by Annette Messager, éditions Quiquandquoi, Geneva, 2004, Collection Art y es-tu? (Des livres d'artistes pour les enfants). still in print.

Paul Cherwick

Paul Cherwick at China Art Objects, LA.

OPENS TOMORROW

Little Stone and Big Peppermint

from Comparative Psychology of Mental Development by Heinz Werner, International Universities Press, NY, 1957

The Sparrow Finds A Home

The Sparrow Finds a Home by Gerald A. Pottebaum, illustrated by Robert Strobridge, Little People's Paperbacks, The Seabury Press, NY, 1967 (from Psalm 84)
I recently found a pile of these little books dating from 1964-1979 (although they're probably more recent reprints). This one's my favourite but I'll try to post more in the future.

Hungarian couple

Géza Gárdonyi by Ida Regénye, Budapest, 1966
Emberek és Fegyverek by Olesz Honscar, Budapest, 1974

misc. bookshelf

Modernās Zinātnes Problēmas by Prof. Dr. Chem. B. Jirgensons, 1947 (latvian)(thanks S.H.)

Up Above & Down Below by Irma E. Weber, William R. Scott Inc., 1943

Safar Jaaree Hai by Ram Prakash, 1986 (front and back cover)

Bird Song Recording by Frederick Purves, The Focal Press , London, 1962

Madrasat Al-Hobb by Anis Mansur, 1984 (arabic)

like an eagle rising from a phoenix

Visit Jon Pylypchuk's new blog. One of my favourite artists and people. Miss you Jon.

the face

Howard re-creates the "face" that inspired him to paint sacred art (detail) / Drawing of perpetual-motion machine (detail) / Howard painting an angel, 1986 / Howard's first computer work, 1987 (detail) / Howard in his studio, 1986
from Howard Finster: Man Of Visions---The Life and Work of a Self-Taught Artist by J.E.Turner, Alfred A. Knoff, NY, 1989

previously

1000 cranes

back cover of Origami Folding Fun: Kangaroo Book by Isao Honda, Japan Publications Inc., Tokyo, 1968

Impression of carver who has never seen a tree

Caribou Spirit by Tudlik, Cape Dorset / Man Kneeling (granite) by Tudlik, Cape Dorset / Birds in a Tree ---Impression of carver who has never seen a tree by Ittorchiak, Frobisher Bay

from Canadian Eskimo Art, The Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources, Ottawa, 1965---Design and Layout by James A. Houston. Photos by Bert Beaver and The National Film Board, Canada.

Niki de Saint Phalle at work

Shooting, 1961 / Studio with Nanas in progress, 1965 / Golem in progress, 1972 / 2 Maquettes for the Tarot Garden, Tuscany, 1979 / Sketch by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle on photo of Tarot Garden in progress / Niki in front of finished 'shooting painting', 1961
from Niki de Saint Phalle by Pontus Hulten, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1992

previously