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Post by GoetzKluge on Apr 24, 2010 4:07:21 GMT -5
...the Snark bringing up the unconscious reference files we keep in our heads, that is the peculiar strength of the Snark! For me, the starting point was the theatrical nature of it, CLD's love of theater and the British penchant for good theater/music hall, etc. It's a performance, a tragicomedy inside one's head wherein all the disused props from long-forgotten earlier productions are all brought into play in new combinations. ... Here is a collection of possible matches between Henry Holiday's illustrations and the illustrations of other artists: www.flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/sets/72157621923487911/. Also some additional images are included, which are no comparisons but may be helpful to hunt the Snark. www.flickr.com/photos/bonnetmaker/sets/72157623644224091/ is a subset of the collection mentioned above. It contains those comparisons, where the relation between the compared images is comparatively strong. The nice thing about understanding Holiday's illustrations more consciously is, that you end up with even more arts "bringing up the unconscious reference files we keep in our heads". So the Snark hunt never ends.
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Post by GoetzKluge on Jun 29, 2010 0:31:18 GMT -5
Henry Holiday's illustration to The Hunting of the Snark, in a chain of four images, where the later image contains shapes from the earlier one. (1) 1882, Alfred Parsons: Charles Darwin's new study (2) 1876, Henry Holiday: Illustration to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark"(3) 1850: John Everett Millais: Christ in the Home of his Parents (4) 16th century, anonymous: An Allegory of Reformation (mirror view) The clearest example for Henry Holiday's quoting from an other artist: thecarrollforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=snark&thread=128&page=1#853
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Post by GoetzKluge on Nov 16, 2013 6:18:05 GMT -5
From illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). Not all of them are necessarily by Henry Holiday: In the Knight Letter #87, Doug Howick assumes, that Lewis Carroll arranged this chart.
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Post by GoetzKluge on Sept 4, 2014 2:43:44 GMT -5
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Post by GoetzKluge on Oct 18, 2014 1:56:05 GMT -5
Top: Matthias Grünewald: "Visit of Saint Anthony to Saint Paul", retinex filtered and color desaturated detail from Isenheim altarpiece (1512–1516). Perhaps also elements from the other altarpiece depicting "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" went into Holiday's illustration (see also Mahendra Singh's blog justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.de/2009/05/fit-fifth-page-34-httpwwwbloggercomimgb.html, 2009). Bottom: Henry Holiday: from an illustration to the chapter "The Beaver's Lesson" in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".
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Post by GoetzKluge on Nov 2, 2014 6:11:52 GMT -5
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Post by GoetzKluge on Dec 10, 2014 17:49:53 GMT -5
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Post by GoetzKluge on May 1, 2015 2:04:15 GMT -5
www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/album/781570?view=0 contains all nine illustrations by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. (The "map" probably has been made by a typesetter.) After scanning them with an already high resolution from an 1876 1st edition, the illustration had been vectorized and then rendered to black&white pixel graphics with a pixel size of 10000 px for the smallest side of the images. Götz
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Post by GoetzKluge on Jun 20, 2015 14:55:10 GMT -5
Top: Matthias Grünewald: "Visit of Saint Anthony to Saint Paul", retinex filtered and color desaturated detail from Isenheim altarpiece (1512–1516). Perhaps also elements from the other altarpiece depicting "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" went into Holiday's illustration (see also Mahendra Singh's blog justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.de/2009/05/fit-fifth-page-34-httpwwwbloggercomimgb.html, 2009). Bottom: Henry Holiday: from an illustration to the chapter "The Beaver's Lesson" in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". Actually, Mahendra Singh and Fernando Soto already some years ago drew my attention to a relation between Matthias Grünewald's Temptation of St. Anthony (center, segment from the right panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece) and Henry Holiday's illustration (right) to The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. On the left side you see another hero surrounded by monsters: Gustave Doré's Don Quixote. More: www.academia.edu/9945889/The_Isenheim_Altarpiece_in_The_Hunting_of_the_Snark_
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Post by GoetzKluge on Apr 5, 2016 15:02:53 GMT -5
Perhaps the Boojum is some kind of personal demon/s individual to each of us. The blank map, it seems to me, is an invitation to populate it with our own landscapes and journeys through life. At some point on that journey, we will all encounter a demon that we need to face up to and conquer. By the way: In Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark the title page says: "With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday". But there are ten illustrations. One possible explanation: The Ocean-Chart in is not necessarily made by Henry Holiday and Joseph Swain. This is a typographical illustration. In the Knight Letter #87, Doug Howick assumes, that Lewis Carroll arranged this chart. I think that the map has been made by Carroll's publisher, that is, by a typesetter. #! /usr/bin/python
''' The title page in The Hunting of the Snark says: "with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday". But there are ten illustrations in the book. So the one illustration which is not made by Henry Holiday could very well be the Bellman's OCEAN-CHART. But it has been said more than thrice that Holiday made that map. So it must be true. Likewise, "6 * 7 = 39" and "I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense!"has to be true as well.
I could prove this in Lua and Haskell too! https://www.academia.edu/10409672/6_7_39 '''
statementList = [\ "I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense!", "Henry Holiday made the OCEAN-CHART.", "Just the place for a Snark!", "Just the place for a Snark!", "6 * 7 = 42.", "A typesetter may have made the OCEAN-CHART for Lewis Carroll.", "I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense!", "6 * 7 = 39.", "6 * 7 = 39.", "Henry Holiday made the OCEAN-CHART.", "Just the place for a Snark!", "6 * 7 = 42.", "Henry Holiday made the OCEAN-CHART.", "I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense!", "6 * 7 = 39.", ] for s in (s for s in frozenset(statementList) if statementList.count(s) >= 3): print('"' + s + '" must be true.') From illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). Not all of them are necessarily by Henry Holiday: In the Knight Letter #87, Doug Howick assumes, that Lewis Carroll arranged this chart.
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