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View attachment 82953gosh I love me some Bourges

An absolute classic! Borges it's one of my favourite writers my dad used to read me old Borges shorts poems and writings when i was a little kid. He's got the opportunity to met the man in a couple of ocassions of the seventies (due to his labor as an artist in Buenos Aires), but it was a very shy man and never have the guts to approach Borges in person. Here's a collage i did the past year homaging Borges and his work:

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[sun0wl]

An absolute classic! Borges it's one of my favourite writers my dad used to read me old Borges shorts poems and writings when i was a little kid. He's got the opportunity to met the man in a couple of ocassions of the seventies (due to his labor as an artist in Buenos Aires), but it was a very shy man and never have the guts to approach Borges in person. Here's a collage i did the past year homaging Borges and his work:

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Hell yeah and that's really cool, I don't blame your dad haha I would have been shy to approach someone I held in such high regard as well.

Nice art, it actually evokes De Chirico for me as well haha, maybe it's the composition or something.

Spoiler: de chirico & ico

which of course inspired Ico cover art

 

[Cuestionador]

Hell yeah and that's really cool, I don't blame your dad haha I would have been shy to approach someone I held in such high regard as well.

Nice art, it actually evokes De Chirico for me as well haha, maybe it's the composition or something.

Spoiler: de chirico & ico

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which of course inspired Ico cover art
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My dad spending many years of the seventies as a neighbor of Bioy Casares and also, never approach him directly. In any case, i miss my dad (he died many years ago), his lectures and his art, i keep drawing and making collages thanks to him. Giorgio De Chirico and René Magritte are two of my artistic heroes of all time, there's another belgian artist influenced by De Chirico called Paul Delvaux, i love him too.

 

[sun0wl]

My dad spending many years of the seventies as a neighbor of Bioy Casares and also, never approach him directly. In any case, i miss my dad (he died many years ago), his lectures and his art, i keep drawing and making collages thanks to him. Giorgio De Chirico and René Magritte are two of my artistic heroes of all time, there's another belgian artist influenced by De Chirico called Paul Delvaux, i love him too.

Sorry to hear about your dad, he seems like a good man who made a difference with his art. I'm sure you're making him proud. I just checked out Delvaux and I can definitely see his influence in your art as well! Thanks for sharing it.

Also, on the topic, now reading:

Really great first-hand account of the Siege of Warsaw in '39. The most interesting part for me is that the book was written in '41 I believe--when the war was far from over, and Poland would have to wait a very long time for freedom...Very interesting to read accounts of WW2 written during the war itself. A bit eerie and sad knowing what would happen, and reading both fiction and non-fiction from the perspective of authors living through it...

I also just really love reading English from this time. Popular books of the time like The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett are also really cool for seeing how people spoke, thought, and lived back then.

 

[Duke_11037]

This also looks interesting to me. I'll definitely try to read this soon.

If you find it interesting Fighting Girl and Otaku: Japan's Database Animals are other good academic works on Otaku and anime culture. If you want to be a pretentious anime fan these are your places to start.