Poets Ranked by Beard Weight

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10/6/11 update: Now (back) in book form thanks to Skyhorse Publishing!


Buy it on Amazon if you have one of the following beard types: Box, Claus-esque, Dutch Elongated, Full Velutinous, Garibaldi Elongated, Hibernator, Italian False Goatee, Maltese, Mock Forked Elongated, Queen's Brigade, Spade, Spatulate Imperial, Van Dyke, Van Winkle, Wandering Jim...

Mystery Zone

Kihachiro Shimozawa (1901-84), Daisetsu Mountain, 1938


Hamaguchi Yozo, Rooftops of Paris, 1956


Kano Mitsuo, Soldered Blue, 1965


Kawase Hasui (1883 -1957), Shinkawa at night


Kawase Hasui (1883 -1957), 1919, Tsuta Spa, Mutsu


Ohara Koson (1877-1945), 1910s, Two Gallinules in shallow water between reeds


Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995), Mystery Zone, 1968


Suzuki Shonen (1849-1918), Woodblock printed New Year's postcard of a Phoenix, Late Meiji era


Chuichi Oiwa, Shizaki Kaigan (Aichi), 1939

A quick post of "leftovers" to follow up on Mad Man and Friends.

Very recommended purchase: Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement.

Mad Man and Friends

Hamada Chimei, Mad Man, 1962


Tsuguharu (Leonard) Foujita, girl with braid, 1929


Oda Mayumi, Wind Goddess, 1970


Hamada Chimei, Elegy for a New Conscipt, Sentinel, 1954


Hamada Chimei, Suspicion, 1957


Hamada Chimei, 1975, Irritating A


Hamada Chimei, 1975, Irritating B


Hamada Chimei, 1962, Shadow


Yoshiro Nagase (1891 - 1978), Remark of Shangai, 1929


Kobayashi Kaichi, Woodblock printed postcard of a nun, Showa Era


Kiyokichi Tanaka, Meloncholy (sic?), 1915


Useno Shinohara, Frog, 1970

Very recommended purchase: Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement.

Forgotten Illustrator: Helga Aichinger 2

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Forgotten Illustrator: Helga Aichinger

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Riding an Ostrich

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A Paper Zoo

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Ready Or Not, Here I Come

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Arcanum

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A House Boat on the River Styx

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Animal on est Mal

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Photochromosomes

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Kurt Seligmann's Initiation Rites

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First Utterance

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In the Grotto

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Eye Hazards in the Book Industry

via nypl


Pornografia, Witold Gombrowicz, 1966 Calder. Designer Jerry Cinamon was at one point the Chief Designer of Penguin Books. via Beinecke


the man without a navel. via nypl.


Witold Gombrowicz, Bakakai (Bacacay), 1968 Brazil. via beinecke.


Ferdydurke, Witold Gombowicz, 1958 France. via beinecke.


Cosmos, Witold Gombrowicz, 1966 Portugal. via beinecke.


Le poisson d'or, Lord Berners, cover by Natalia Gontcharova, 1919. via beinecke.


cendrars, sutters gold. via nypl.


Klaus Ensikat, Brecht, 1971


capek, the first rescue party. via nypl.