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Black Glass Vase Bomb by Clark Coolidge, A landmark first-time collaboration between poet Clark Coolidge and writer/scholar/artist Keith Waldrop, Bomb is a meditation on a book of photographs that document the Manhattan Project. Coolidge's thirty page poem begins with epigraphs by Democritus, Gregory Corso and Andre Breton/Paul Eluard, and continues in an elliptical, glancing narrative style that lucidly investigates a subject often too traumatic to consider directly -- the impact of the atomic bomb on our lives. Or should we say instead, the bomb's impact on our everyday lives -- as Coolidge puts it, the general tendency has been to "put the bomb in a glass vase/add dust and forget". Like all of Coolidge's work, Bomb is sharp, stark, and rhythmic; the poet here tangles with the dreamlike oddness of the photographs at hand in fits and starts of language with an explosive beauty. Keith Waldrop's series of collages are literal reworkings of the original pictures: deep blacks and bright whites excavated from the book, remade here in the image of the poem.
Renaissance Ornaments and Designs by Marty Noble, The 129 newly rendered and richly detailed designs in this splendid collection depict prime examples of Renaissance ornament. Borders, frames, decorative initials, and other configurations are filled with exquisite images of cherubs, mythical creatures, human figures, floral and foliated designs, interlacings, and more. Illustrator Marty Noble has adapted these striking designs from a number of authentic sources, among them Florentine vases and manuscripts; French and Flemish tapestries; English and Italian book bindings; jewelry, stained glass, and sculpture; Italian and Spanish glazed wall tiles; a sword; Gothic panels; and exquisite lace. Graphic designers, commercial artists, desktop publishers, and craftworkers alike will find countless uses for these lovely, permission-free illustrations. Dover Original. Approximately 129 black-and-white designs.
Black light - Black light is the common name for a lamp emitting almost entirely long wave ultraviolet radiation and very little visible light. Fluorescent black lights are typically made in the same fashion as normal fluorescent lights except that only one phosphor is used and the normally clear glass envelope of the bulb is replaced by a deep bluish purple glass called Wood's glass, a nickel oxide, cobalt oxide-doped glass which blocks virtually all visible light above 400 nanometers. Portland Vase - The Portland Vase is a first-century Roman glass vase, which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards. Since 1945 the vase has belonged to the British Museum. The Glass Wall - The Glass Wall is a black-and-white 1953 film directed by Maxwell Shane. The film was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Miss Black America (band) - Miss Black America (MBA) are a rock band based in Suffolk, England. Its members are Seymour Glass (voice/guitar), Simon Chapple (previously Simon Cooper) (drums), Mat Anthony (guitar/voice), Mike Smith (bass, replacing Ryan Banwell) and Richard Phillips (guitar). blackglassvase |
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