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Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance

June 19, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center

The Ransom Center presents the exhibition “Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance” from Aug. 11, 2018, through Jan. 6, 2019. [Read more…] about Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Photography Tagged With: artists' books, Books, drawings, Ed Ruscha, photographs, release

I shout for a flower

March 21, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

Gabriel García Márquez autographing a wine barrel, 2005. Photographer unknown.

An undeniable source of pleasure in archives is the appearance of a writer’s doodles in the margins of books and manuscripts. As we’ve digitized García Márquez’s papers for his online archive [Read more…] about I shout for a flower

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections Tagged With: archive, autograph, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, digitized, doodle, drawings, flower, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jullianne Ballou, manuscript, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Plinio Mendoza, Sharing Gabo with the World

From the Outside In: Two portraits of James Joyce

June 9, 2014 - Alicia Dietrich

Left, "Portrait of James Joyce," Wyndham Lewis, 1920. Right, "Joyce at Midnight," Desmond Harmsworth, ca. 1930

The atria on the first floor of the Ransom Center are surrounded by windows featuring etched reproductions of images from the collections. The windows offer visitors a hint of the cultural treasures to be discovered inside. From the Outside In is a series that highlights some of these images and their creators.

The windows of the Harry Ransom Center show two drawings of James Joyce, one by Desmond Harmsworth and one by Wyndham Lewis, depicting very different sides of the famous writer. The Lewis drawing, dated 1920, shows a portrait of Joyce from the outside: head down, identifiable by the thick eyeglasses and small beard. Lewis was one of Joyce’s Modernist contemporaries—a novelist, experimental artist, and founder of the abstract art movement Vorticism. He was also a well-known curmudgeon and critic, and his sketch hints at the distance from which he approached his fellow artist. Harmsworth, in contrast, was one of Joyce’s publishers and enjoyed long evenings talking and drinking with the writer. His drawing expresses more of Joyce’s personal character.

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Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Desmond Harmsworth, drawings, Guide to the Windows, James Joyce, literature, portraits, Wyndham Lewis

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