Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Hueg, Herman.  Ornamental confectionary and practical assistant to the art of baking in all its branches. New York: Gibb Bros. & Moran, 1893. 12mo. Frontis., [10], 85, [25] pp.; 25 double plts. http://www.prbm.com/interest/germanbks-f-m.php
Gellius, Aulus. Binding: Prize binding (without certificate) of contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in double blind fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, gilt-stamped medallion on each cover showing a scimitar-wielding knight bearing two crossed keys on his shield, supported by monkeys and surmounted by lounging figures grasping snakes. Spine with gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt-stamped compartment decorations, and early inked title. http://www.prbm.com/
Binding by Root & Son Bible.  N.T. English. Authorized. 1864. http://www.prbm.com/
rerylikes: Dario Utreras (thanks to ikilledjackjohnson)
    Tennyson said that if we could understand a single flower we would know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he meant that there is no deed, however so humble, which does not implicate universal history and the infinite concatenation of causes and effects. Perhaps he meant that the visible world is implicit, in its entirety, in each manifestation, just as, in the same way, will, according to Schopenhauer, is implicit, in its entirety, in each individual.
    Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
sharingendorphins: Landscape in Red Light by Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde    Blooming Garden in Utenvarfe
Artist: Timmy Thomas
Track: Why Can't We Live Together
Album: The 70's - 1973 - CD 2
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Comments: Perhaps the single most influential American teacher of his time, Dow was integral to the Arts and Crafts Movement and to the introduction and spreading of Japonisme in the United States. He came from a Puritan background and had a classical education. After studying in France in the 1880s, he returned to Boston and worked as an assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts. Here he was introduced  to Japanese art by the Oriental scholar and curator, Ernest Fenolossa. Dow began making color woodblock prints by the early 1890s, and in 1895 had the first ever exhibition (at the BMFA) of color woodblock prints by a Western  artist. From 1895-1904, he taught at the Pratt Institute. Dow’s most important breakthrough came with his integration of Eastern and Western art, and his development of corresponding new theories on composition which  he published in 1899 as Composition. This book proved highly influential on the next two generations of American artists. He continued teaching at  Columbia Univ. (1904-22) and his popular Ipswich Summer Art School (c.1900-07) attracted serious students from all over the country. Georgia  O’Keeffe and Max Weber were among the  many students who acknowledged his profound influence. Although he is best known for his Ipswich  scenes, he also visited  the West and produced paintings of the Grand Canyon (exhibited 1913). He was also a photographer. In addition to Composition,he was author of Theory and Practice of Teaching Art, Constructive Art Teaching, By Salt Marshes, Ipswich Prints and Prints  from Wood Blocks. Sources: WW21; Frederick C. Moffatt, Arthur Wesley Dow (exh. cat., NCFA, 1977); Baigell, Dictionary; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 339 This biography is drawn from the “Who Was Who in American Art” , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States. http://www.mfordcreech.com/arthur_wesley_dow_meadow_at_sunset.htm               Arthur Wesley Dow  August Moon, ca. 1905 Woodcut on paper, 13.5 x 18.5 cm.  Collection of Edgar O. Smith, New York http://yama-bato.tumblr.com/post/525966172/arthur-wesley-dow-august-moon-ca-1905-woodcut
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