Rome Book IV
Rome, Italy
ca. 1980s
Rome, Italy
ca. 1980s
This page reflects the writer/collagist's dilemma — representing posters she would have liked to have torn off walls for her commonplace book, but could not, because they were still current. That year (1983) in Palermo there were two large exhibitions — one of paintings by Antonello da Messina, another to mark the centenary of Karl Marx's death — promoted all over town not by individual posters but by sequences of five posters. The writer notes that the sequences of Marx posters were rarely vandalized while those of Antonello's Madonna frequently were, and draws thumbnails.
From the collection of Elatia Harris.
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From the collection of Elatia Harris.
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Another gem. I love having these just keep appearing on the site, bubbling up from the past but as fresh and engaging as they were when you made them years ago.
posted on 07.09.09 by
Deborah Barlow
Elatia - you never cease to amaze me! These extracts from your scrapbooks are extraordinary. I am still puzzling over the razor blade and pink lips from the hotels.... you will have to explain those to me sometime! I can't wait for Sonali to enjoy these excerpts as she sets off for her first encounter with Italy AND after she just began to seriously scrapbook this summer!
Thanks for sharing this with us,
Lakshmi
Thanks for sharing this with us,
Lakshmi
posted on 07.09.09 by
Lakshmi Bloom
Delightful, and emotionally complex!
Doses this world still exist?
Doses this world still exist?
posted on 07.09.09 by
Dave Ranning
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