Reading Dore's DQ/a voice...coincidences redux
Here's the frontispiece from Gustav Dore's illustrated DQ. I think it's called "Don Quixote in his Library"
Not too many thoughts yet but always the thought that illustrations and text generate a potential. And...the frontispiece is a gateway and sets a tone. You have to pass through it or flip past it to enter the text. I like the author/illustrator (for example, Dr. Seuss). It's a comfortable fit. But comparisons are interesting. I like the completely different takes of John Tenniel and Arthur Rackham on Alice in Wonderland. Maybe with children's books you grow up through Tenniel and into Rackham who has much more appeal for disaffected youth. I've seen the Petipa/Gorsky/Minkus Don Quixote ballet which I could read as an illustrated text but the ballet really just focuses on one episode. Dore's project seems much more comprehensive and ambitious.
posted by Anne @ 8:21 AM
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I've never actually posted the first comment on my own posting before (interesting) but I just found out last night that I'll get to watch an excerpt from DQ (the ballet) this Friday (Feb 10) at Irina Aoucheva's annual gala variety show (always a treat)at Theatre Aquarius. As the weather gets colder...I am blanketed by coincidences.
...and then yesterday I learned that the National Ballet of Canada is staging Suzanne Farrell's staging of Balanchine's DQ (which originally starred Suzanne Farrell as Dulcinea) next season (Spring 2007). I imagine it's now a "must see".
sure as shootin i was talking about the Dane(s) - and the Dore illustration cued me to visit my comic encyclopedia - and again to look at Daumier's earthy drawings!
'Turn up the heat' is, for me, a reference to Rumi - "I was raw, I cooked, I burned" - and it is also a dramatic term (as in: turn up the heat on the protagonist) as well as a reference to digesting ideas using the fires of perception. Traversing (?) from reality, physicals and biologicals, gravities, bills, (cause and effect) and "going" into the world of images, light- play, is an overview, backing up, pulling out, and not taking the physical for granted in time of scarcity; not escaping or retreating, but appreciating what IS there.
I love the notion of the "creature" being free of the creator - free to be accessed by anyone who sees themself in him or her.
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