Auden: Doubt
“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”
― W.H. Auden, Selected Essays
“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”
― W.H. Auden, Selected Essays
This entry was posted on Sunday, December 29th, 2013 at 10:02 pm and is filed under quotes, writers-poetry.
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A book of animated drawings.
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Running the Line, A Book of Animated Drawings
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Twenty-Five Miles to True North
13 Kafkaesque stories.
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Fifth in a series of digital sketchbooks containing expressive images created on the iPad. An enhanced eBook, with over 70 incantatory images and fascinating sped-up movies, which depict the creation of 7 of the images.
Three short tales of monsters and their personal anguish. Visiting a secret clinic, the monsters open up about their feelings and their world. A world of tooth and claw, but also of deep feeling.
Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture
Thirteen amazing short stories circling the theme of persistence in the midst of accident and mystery. Resonant magical tales wrapped in an ironic movie pitch.
A book of suggestive, mask-like images, which can be thought of as a book of drawings only, but its goal is something more experimental.
A catalog of two series of visionary paintings, Explorations and Frames.
Paintings – Inside, Interior, Cell Wall
A catalog of three series of visionary paintings: Inside the Inside, Interior Landscape, and the Cell Wall series.
Paintings, Series: The Birds, Dancers
A catalog of two series of visionary paintings, The Birds and Dancers, circa early 2000.
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Eleven speculative tales of fantasy.
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Illustrated nonsense verse for an Orwellian age.
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This is the fourth in a series of digital sketchbooks containing expressive images created on the iPad. This is an enhanced eBook, with thirty visionary images, and fascinating sped-up movies which depict the creation of two of the images.
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A series of visionary paintings inspired by the Amazon; images wrapped in possibility and the mystery of creation. A series of more than 40 paintings, created in early 2000, over a period of two years. Meditative imagery for the spirit and imagination.
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A book of over 100 luminous photographs of San Francisco’s Fort Mason Community Garden.
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This is the third in a series of digital sketchbooks containing expressive images created on the iPad. This is an enhanced eBook, with animations which depict the creation of several images. This sketchbook includes the most recently created images in the series; 97 visionary images and 5 fascinating videos.
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Ira Altschiller: Works on Paper
A retrospective catalog of paintings and drawings on paper by Ira Altschiller. Included are works created from 2001 to 2005. An appendix and foreword provide brief background and technical information.
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Ira Altschiller: A Retrospective
A retrospective of paintings created from 2004 to 2009 by Ira Altschiller. Over 100 images from the series Ancient World, Fables, and Visions.
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A digital sketchbook containing expressive images created on the iPad. This is an enhanced eBook, with animations included, which depict the creation of some of the images. This eBook is the second in a series of digital sketchbooks. More than 100 images and 6 videos.
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A sketchbook of 63 expressive digital images created on the iPad.
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Legends of Ghost Island, Book One
A series of brief tales told to the mysterious Traveler by the extraordinary creatures of Ghost Island. The Traveler ventures from one amazing village to the next learning about the powerful Ancients.
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Urban walls and creatures of the imagination — photograph and drawing — in an amazing harmony.
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Creative Quotations, Stillness in the Midst of Chaos
An artist’s selection of quotations for the creative spirit. Ideas and drawings in a stimulating, provocative mix.
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25 Secrets of the Muse: A Book of Creative Strategies
A book of tips, suggestions, and brief ideas to inspire and guide any creative activity. Written by an artist to share hard won lessons that might be applied in many contexts.
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A bestiary for the adult in every child and the child in every adult. Drawings of imaginary creatures, described in a playful, imaginative way.
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A mysterious journey into an imagined past. A story of a tribe confronting change in a dramatic dreamscape. A graphic novel, in which the images and text share equal weight.
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Ira Altschiller is an artist and writer working in California.
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This blog will follow my interests in the arts, ideas, politics, science, the media / popular culture…
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Seeking to find order in chaos,
and the chaos in perceived order.
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Nullius in verba
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