fri nite book shopping

staying in this evening
spent enough money online already
airfare n things.

but the shopping doesnt end there.
so i get this lil book thing called The Historian
it's sent out to Phi Alpha Theta members (that honors history group thing)
There are essays and in the back book reviews which also makes a really nice list for shopping.

so then
amazon.com



Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, And The Death Of The Third Reich (Hardcover)
by Stephen G. Fritz
Link


The Battle of Salamis : The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization.
by Barry Strauss
Link

ok.
tomorrow a museum attempt

To the Tate Britian
to see Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination
going on 15 February - 1 May 2006.

sat london!

woah
it's nice today
off to camdem to get grub n meet up with captainmenace after he gets himself all pretty n stuff

then to the tate britain to check out that gothy stuff i posted about last nite

better run and take advantage of this sun stuff
no more bill n teds EXcelENT adventure watching
party on dude
gahahahah

ugolino

back from the Tate Britan
really worth it
oh yes...
seeing them online doesn't quite have the same effect tho

This print reproduces Reynolds’ painting of the imprisonment of Count Ugolino de Gherardeschi (d.1288), from Dante’s Inferno (1319-21). Thrown into prison after a political intrigue, Ugolino was left to starve along with two of his sons and two grandchildren. The painting represents the moment when he hears the door being permanently sealed, and he is suddenly awakened to his dreadful fate. He will eventually commit a horrid act of cannibalism.


John British Dixon after Joshua Reynolds
Ugolino 1773
Mezzotint 505 x 615 mm
© Copyright the Trustees of The British Museum

oh and heroic Satan is kinda hot

In a scene from Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), Satan and his troops, having been expelled from Heaven for their rebellion, glare back from Hell and rage against God. Barry has used a low viewpoint and strong tonal contrasts to emphasise the heroic proportions of Satan. His rugged, unconventional printmaking technique enhances this characterization

James Barry
Satan and his Legions Hurling Defiance Toward The Vault of Heaven circa 1792-1794
Etching,and engraving 746 x 504 mm
© Copyright the Trustees of The British Museum

The Icelandic hero, Thor, raises his weapon to strike at the monstrous Mitgard Serpent, which he has fished from the churning black sea. The diminutive elderly figure at the top of the canvas is intended as the god Odin. The subject is drawn from the medieval epic, The Edda. Fuseli presented this work to the Royal Academy in 1790, when he was elected a member. It exemplifies his interest in super-heroic action and in unusual literary sources.

Henry Fuseli
Thor Battering The Mitgard Serpent 1790
Oil on canvas, 1310 x 910 mm
Lent by the Royal Academy of Arts, London

i think i must go back again
either monday or tuesday(before the imperial war museum visit)