"All art is infested by other art"
(Leo Steinberg, Art about Art, 1979)
about Henry Holiday's illustrations
to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.
Links:
This is what Friedrich Nietzsche knew about Snark hunting:
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn,
dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird.
Und wenn du lange in den Abgrund blickst,
blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
(He who fights with monsters might take care
lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you.)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil), 4-146
"Some interesting detective work showing Henry Holiday’s borrowings from the above etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder is here."
Nice encouragement. The link would direct you to an old site using Flicke. But in 2013 I moved to ipernity. Additionally now there is a "subreddit": /r/TheHuntingOfTheSnark
Thomas Stearns Eliot, in Philip Massinger's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, 1922.
- www.goodreads.com/review/list/7955917-goetz-kluge?shelf=snark-hunting
- www.goodreads.com/review/list/7955917-goetz-kluge?shelf=art
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