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[left]: The Banker after his encounter with the Bandersnatch, depicted in a segment of Henry Holiday's illustration (woodcut by Joseph Swain for block printing) to the chapter "The Banker's Fate" in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (scanned from an 1876 edition of the book)

[right]: a redrawn and horizontally compressed and reproduction of "The Image Breakers" (1566-1568) aka "Allegory of Iconoclasm", an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (British Museum, Dept. of Print and Drawings, 1933.1.1..3, see also Edward Hodnett: Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Utrecht 1971, pp. 25-29). Also I flipped the "nose" vertically.

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by Marcus Wills, 2006

I added this to my Flickr photostream by courtsey of Marcus Wills, 2010-02-10.

This painting won the Australian Archibald Prize in 2006. To me it is an excellent example for "art about art", which is an art in its own right. This painting not only is about Marcus Gheeraert's probably most famous etching, it also is about the sculptures of Paul Juraszek (Melbourne). Something like this should be treated like the pictorial equivalent to a good variation of a musical composition (e.g. like Koechlin's variations on BACH).

The painting is based on The Image Breakers (1566-1568) aka Allegory of Iconoclasm, an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (British Museum, Dept. of Print and Drawings, 1933.1.1..3, see also Edward Hodnett: Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Utrecht 1971, pp. 25-29)

 

 
"All art is infested by other art"
Leo Steinberg (Art about Art, 1979)

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[left]: Henry Holiday's depiction of a bonnet (the hat, not the sail) in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
[right]: The Image Breakers (1566-1568) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder

There are two ways to map the scale in Holiday's illustration to Gheeraert's etching. Here only one of the two possibilities has been marked (red frame).

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New image (2013-11-18): www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/28207983

 

The image shows unaltered segments from Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and from The Image Breakers (1566-1568) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.
 
 
"Only those questions that are in principle undecidable, we can decide."
Heinz von Foerster: Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics, 1990-10-04 (Système et thérapie familiale, Paris)

"We have neglected the gift of comprehending things through our senses. Concept is divorced from percept, and thought moves among abstractions. Our eyes have been reduced to instruments with which to identify and to measure; hence we suffer a paucity of ideas that can be expressed in images and in an incapacity to discover meaning in what we see. Naturally we feel lost in the presence of objects that make sense only to undeluted vision, and we seek refuge in the more familiar medium of words. ... The inborn capacity to understand through the eyes has been put to sleep and must be reawakened."
Rudolf Arnheim: Art and Visual Perception, 1974, p. 1

"It is possible that the author was half-consciously laying a trap, so readily did he take to the inventing of puzzles and things enigmatic; but to those who knew the man, or who have devined him correctly through his writings, the explanation is fairly simple."
Henry Holiday (1898-01-29) on Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark

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Henry Holiday's illustration to the chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and five sources from which Holiday probably merged elements into that illustration.

 

New version. 2013-07: www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/23196633

 

 

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