Paul Hammond
The Song of Solomon
From Tether 1, page 8:
“What follows, then, is an attempt to chart the first stirrings of cinephilia. In it I want to triangulate the thrilling reverberation between what was depicted on the silver screen, the architectonic and social specificity of the nocturnal movie house, and the extramural setting of the diurnal world outside. For a child this reverberation was a privileged means of access to a more intense being-in-the-world, to what I later came to understand Surrealist experience to be. As I experienced them, movies, play, and the plenitude of nature were all of a piece during childhood, a particular cinema and its environs being both the stimulus and setting for my boyhood acting-out to the extent that for years afterwards the picture palace’s contours and its nearby hidey-holes continued to haunt my dreams”
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Tether 1 contains essays by Bill Berkson on the influence of Piero Della Francesca; W. C. Bamberger presents never before published translations of the surrealist art critic Emil Szittya; Holly Day discusses George Sugarman’s polychrome sculptures from the 1960’s; John Willenbecher unearths something out of the ordinary about Chardin’s drawers; Judith Stein writes about the little known textile works of Katherine Porter; Douglas Crase reflects on sitting for a portrait; Trevor Winkfield unpacks the mysteries of Cezanne’s masterpiece, Mardi Gras; Nathan Kernan leaks a preview of his forthcoming biography on James Schuyler; Bill Zavatsky translates Robert Desnos’s 1926 book “It’s The Seven League Boots This Phrase ‘I See Myself’”; a selection of pages from Gerald Murphy’s notebooks; Chris Byrne introduces us to the visionary work of Susan Te Kahurangi King; Paul Hammond recalls his childhood awakening to the world of cinema; Charles North debunks the threat of poetry; and an essay on walking in the English countryside by A.J.A. Symons.
Printed in the USA
Edition of 500
9 black and white images and 59 color images
Item Weight : 0.82 pounds
Paperback : 180 pages
ISBN: 978069237617151500
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Sienese Shredder Editions; Pap/Com Edition (2015)
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