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About The Hunting of the Snark"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."  This is probably the one of the stongest examples for resemblances between graphical elements in Holiday's illustrations (to The Hunting of the Snark, 1876) and graphical elements in another work of art, which in this example is The Image Breakers (1566-1568) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.  Some of the pointers (to works created by other artists) hidden by Henry Holiday in his illustrations are quite funny. Did Gustave Doré know, how his depiction of a root protuding from a rock could be perceived?  (larger version) The comparisons above are good examples for how Holiday in many of his references to other images strengthened the link between an illustration and the pictures from which he quoted graphical elements: The resemblance of elements may be more or less disputable, but in many cases Holiday strove to maintain the topological relation between the elements of the source and the topological relation between the quoted elements in his own illustration. === Keywords === Arts: "arts research", "Pre-Raphaelites", "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood", "Iconoclasm" "graphical quoting", "pictorial quoting", "appropriation", "hidden images", "hidden faces", "iconoclasm", "The Image Breakers" History: "anglicanism", "history of religious persecution", "belief systems", "Victorian era" Artists: "Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder", "Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger", "Gustave Doré", "John Everett Millais", "John Ruskin" "Alfred Parsons", "William Blake" Allegories: "Care & Hope", "Religion & Liberty", "Father Time" Persons: "Henry George Liddell", "Benjamin Jowett", "Charles Darwin", "Thomas Cranmer", "Queen Elizabeth I" Darwin: "tuning forks and spiders", "lace-needles and dissection, vivisection", "1860 Oxford evolution debate" |
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