Carl Spitzweg, The Bookworm, 1850
James Jacques-Joseph Tissot, Reading a Book, 1872
"Il n'y a peut-être pas de jours de notre enfance que nous ayons si pleinement vécus que ceux que nous avons cru laisser sans les vivre, ceux que nous avons passés avec un livre préféré..."
Marcel Proust, "Journées de lecture"
John A.S. Coutts, Holly Faram, 1930s
A binary romance
Happiness is a warm book
Sir John Everett Millais, No!
Alfred Perceval Graves
How Speeds the Wooing?
Published in English Illustrated Magazine, 1896.
Passionate lover, prithee, tell
How speeds the wooing?
Passing well.
She entrancing,
I admiring,
I advancing,
She retiring.
Lover, of thy heart beware;
Too swift haste is slow despair.
A short story about visual contraception
Somewhere in Moscow ...
Shen Han Wun (born 1950), The Sun is Red
Georges de la Tour, St Jérôme, 1630
Francisco de Zurbaran, Meditation of St. Francis, 1632
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Librarian, c.1566
André Martins de Barros, Le philosophe
David dalla Venezia
Pierre Huyghe, This is Not a Time for Dreaming, 2004
Vinogradov & Dubossarsky, Oblomov, 1996
Jean Bourdichon, The 'grandes Heures' of Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 1500
Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 2011
Beatrix Potter, The bespectacled mouse illustration, 1890
Jean Michel-Folon, Kafka's Metamorphosis
Paul Zwolak
The Bible in the US woodland camouflage pattern, first introduced in 1989 (no joke)
Gerard DuBois
Enrique Moreiro
Carmen Segovia
Scott McKowen
Stéphane Gamain
Carole Henaff
L'écriture postmoderne
Lettering
Yesterday night
Jean-Sebastien Monzani
Allegretto
Félix Vallotton, La liseuse, 1922
Death of Chatterton by Wallis - on the floor torn pieces of his manuscripts
Hubertus Gojowczyk, News from the years 1732 – 1733, 1999
A. Paul Weber, The Reviewer, c. 1930
Erik Desmazières, The Library of Babel (1997)
Schuiten & Peeters
Eric Drooker, Bookopolis
Jonathan Wolstenholm, The Three Wise Books
"L'horrible masse des livres révèle et cache la rivière et ses origines : j'aime à dire que les sources attirent les savants parce qu'elles sont libres de savants !" - Michel Serres, Le Tiers-Instruit
Selcuk Demirel
George Grosz, John Foerate, Man with Glass Eyes, 1926
Nina Leen, Berlin 1950
Scott McKowen
Jean-Francois Martin
Serge Bloch
Anarky
Pep Montserrat
Alfred Perceval Graves
How Speeds the Wooing?
Published in English Illustrated Magazine, 1896.
Passionate lover, prithee, tell
How speeds the wooing?
Passing well.
She entrancing,
I admiring,
I advancing,
She retiring.
Lover, of thy heart beware;
Too swift haste is slow despair.
"L'horrible masse des livres révèle et cache la rivière et ses origines : j'aime à dire que les sources attirent les savants parce qu'elles sont libres de savants !" - Michel Serres, Le Tiers-Instruit
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