"their diverse combinations of colour and form, at times, as though microscopic magnifications from a biology textbook, and at others, as if some kind of geological precursor to the 50s experiments of Abstract Expressionism."
On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868) — The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/on-the-disposition-of-iron-in-variegated-strata-1868/
Happy new year, happy new book find on the intersection of artist's books and comics:
Tom Philips, "A Humument" (1970-75)
https://www.escapeintolife.com/showcase/a-humument-visual-poetic-artists-book/
"I have read A Humument from start to finish and I’m convinced that this is far from the best way to appreciate it. It is a book to be leafed through at random, like any art or poetry book. Whatever story may exist is negligible, and the best poetry—both in terms of text and as concrete poetry—occurs at random."
Attached: 1 image A *lot* of my work on comics has had to explain the extreme insulation of comics studies from art history contexts. Fifteen years on from the "Abstract comics" anthology's publication, readers and scholars alike look at the form as primarily representational, narrative genre fiction. No more. I've only gotten hold of these beauties myself now, but they were published the same year I edited the Uncomics anthology, 2022. These are a big deal, and I urge comics folks to get their hands on them.
On May 1st, Norway expelled illustrator and #uncomics artist Zarina Saidova for false information supplied by her mother on their residency application ~20 years ago. Her mother is now permanently barred from entering the EU Schengen area, Zarina will not be allowed back for several years although she has built a career and life for herself in Norway.
Here's an article from last year when Zarina was still hoping to have the case turned around:
[Edited: archived link] https://web.archive.org/web/20231130034415/https://www.thelocal.no/20230926/zarina-faces-deportation-from-norway-for-mothers-lie
#uncomics #followfriday part 2:
(Because I'm an idiot and forgot half the people I wanted to recommend when I wrote part 1)
Art books and poetry publishing: @tkbks
Contemporary AbEx art: @BDPNT
Chicano art + zen comics: @lannan
The artist's book collection at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: @artistsbooks
A rare #uncomics #followfriday list:
Wonderful collages: @allison
Wandering (often abstract) comics: @maximpetergriff
Quilts and creative process: @artcollisions
Comics scholar and general raconteur: @nealcurtis
Comics artist scholar teacher (probably more as well): @nsousanis
Self-serving writer of this toot: @haverholm
There's a new "Badger's eve view" column up on the Uncomics site: "Roshi Kremer's Little Dot", in which @badgetoon puts some of his Modern Arts and Buddhist tools to use on old-fashioned cartooning:
https://uncomics.org/fine%20arts/mark-05.html
In his second instalment of the "Badger's eye view" column on uncomics.org, Mark Badger @badgetoon offers a consideration of Matisse's "Swimming pool" frieze as comics, and on practising meditation.
https://uncomics.org/fine%20arts/mark-02.html
#uncomics #modernart #HenriMatisse #buddhism #meditation #MoMA
It's been a quiet month over on the Uncomics website, but Mark Badger @badgetoon has stepped up to contribute a biweekly column about comics, Modern Art, and Buddhism:
Here is his first piece on Donald Judd's 1990s plywood boxes as comics, and in terms of the five Buddhist aggregates.
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