{"id":7465,"date":"2016-08-12T22:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T02:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=7465"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:43:08","slug":"a-book-of-knowledge-a-life-of-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/7465","title":{"rendered":"A book of knowledge, a life of imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.\u201d
\n\u2014Marcel Proust<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nHere are the illustrated endpapers and dust jacket from the 1951 edition of The Book of Knowledge<\/em> set \u2014 my introduction to the concept of visual montage. These absurd juxtapositions compelled my first <\/a>perceptual leap beyond the literal, and, to tell the truth, I don\u2019t think that my innate creativity has been quite the same since. How far back can one trace these kinds of images? Did they precede collage and influence its development, or did they actually derive from the collage innovations of the early 1900s? At any rate, I was captivated by this particular painting and others like it. There is no doubt in my mind that a sweet obsession with the chaotic harmony of montage imagery began with childhood influences that came from unsung illustrators \u2014 such as the artist who came up with this extraordinary vision \u2014 long before I understood the visual mastery of a Fred Otnes<\/a>, Bob Peak<\/a>, or Paul Melia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.\u201d \u2014Marcel Proust                                 Here are the illustrated endpapers and dust jacket from the 1951 edition of The Book of Knowledge set \u2014 my introduction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,161,36,13,211,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8784,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions\/8784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}