How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

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Rockwell Kent - Seal Hunter: North Greenland (1933)

This picture is in the collection of the no longer easy to visit Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

I'm posting it for those of us in the northern hemisphere who are not enjoying the heat!

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How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

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How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

The point, of course, is to make yourself alive — to feel the force of being in your sinew and your spirit, to tremble with the beauty and the terror of it all, to breathe lungfuls of life th…

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« Beowulf and The Dragon », 1931

by Rockwell Kent (American painter, 1882-1971)
Signed lithograph, illustration from W.E. Leonard’s translation of the old English epic story Beowulf, 1932

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Wikipedia : Rockwell Kent

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Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Wikipedia : Rockwell Kent

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Rockwell Kents Illustrationen zu Moby Dick sind kaum zu übertreffen.

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Lesens- und anschauenswert: Bücher von Rockwell Kent. Von ihm stammen auch Illustrationen zu Goethes Faust, zu Shakespeare, zu Melvilles Moby Dick und vielen anderen Autoren mehr!
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