Links Page (or 5 artists who shaped me)

• The William Blake Archive. Blake's illuminated books compiled as online electronic documents.
• Blake Digital Text Project, maintained by Nelson Hilton. Nicely put together variation on above.
• An Introduction to William Blake by Alfred Kazin. Highly insightful.
• Blake Exhibition shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Blake Page at WebMuseum.
• Blake Page at Mark Harden's Art Archive.
• Blake Page at Art Magick.
• Blake Page at poets.org.
• Via internal links The National Archives connects Blake to Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Joseph Priestly, and Tom Paine.
• William Blake and Allen Ginsberg, Poets of a Fallen World, Prophets of the New World.
• Online material from seminar on Blake taught by Professor Jim McCord.
• The Blake Multimedia Project. An interesting idea.
• William Blake (1757-1827): Poet, Artist & Engraver. Simple, basic intro to Blake.
• Penn Hackney has posted Blake material online. Like Mr. Hackney, I am fascinated by Blake's Laocoön.

• The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Easily best Rossetti site on web.
• The Victorian Web has a Rossetti Page and offers an excellent overview of the timeframe covering Rossetti's career.
• Photograph of Rossetti by Lewis Carroll.
• Rossetti Page at WebMuseum.
• Rossetti Page at Mark Harden's Art Archive.
• Rossetti Page at Art Magick.
• Rossetti Page at CGFA.
• Rossetti Page at Olga's Gallery.
• The Romantic Victorian: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with an explicated version of Rossetti's poem The Blessed Damozal.
• Neurotic Poets has a page on our boy.

• M. C. Escher: the Official Website. Perfect place to begin exploring Escher, if you're unfamiliar with his work.
• World of Escher. Splendid online gallery, with zoom feature and useful information accompanying every image. Plus they hold online tessellation contests and sell neat Escher related items.
• M. C. Escher. Elegantly designed site.
• The Mathematical Art of M. C. Escher. Cuts to the heart of where Escher was coming from.
• M. C. Escher: Artist or Mathematician? Further material, along same lines as above.
• Escher and the Droste effect. Visually breaks down Escher's stylistic approach. Quite well done.
• Metamorphose. Compact, Java-based applet allowing panoramic view of Escher's woodcut Metamorphose II.
• Computer Art by Hans Kuiper. Inspired by Escher. Kuiper uses a program called Spiegelkunstenaar (Mirror Artist) to create his images. Just by virtue of the way my mind works, Spiegelkunstenaar makes me think of computer artist/composer Laurie Spiegel, whose visionary take on computers very much influenced me. When Spiegel first wanted to post her website, she initially thought of calling it mirrorimage.com. To an extent it was a play on her name, which means mirror in German; yet I believe there was more to it. Mirrors definitely possess magical qualities and certain computer artists seem intuitively drawn toward them, much in the same way that they are drawn to M. C. Escher, who, more than any artist previous or since, made art out of his obsession with mirrors. Indeed, retiary.org, the name Spiegel ultimately ended up calling her website, evokes another, perhaps even deeper, obsession of Escher's: mazelike webs.
• Ascending and Descending. Terrific little page, breaking down Escher's mazelike lithograph. Posted by Jill Britton, who is responsible for the extremely valuable Escher in the Classroom.
• Escher Tiles. Steve Passiouras's interactive application for exploring the patterns in Escher's ribbon tiles.
• Hollister David, the editor of a weekly newspaper in the tiny town of Ajo, Arizona has unique Escher and Escher inspired pages on his site. This page, offering an interpretation by Carlton Leuven of Escher's Curl-Ups, especially struck me, as it seems to meld Escher to Blake.
• That Nick and Julie Ziring have a menagerie of pets, including an iguana, may help explain their affinity for Escher, who was fascinated by all manner of critters.
• Escher Page at Mark Harden's Art Archive.
• M. C. Escher - Life and Work. From National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.
• David Kirk McAllister has an Escher Page and a page of Escher inspired art.
• Escher Art Gallery put up by Bill Church.
• Zvi Har'El's M. C. Escher Collection.
• Artists' Market. They host Escher exhibitions, as well as buy and sell original Escher prints.

• The Unofficial E.E. Cummings Starting Point. In fact, this site is a good starting point for learning about Cummings. Posted by The E. E. Cummings Society, which publishes articles like Not "e. e. cummings" by Norman Friedman.
• the paintings of e.e. cummings. It should come as no surprise that a poet who experimented with spatial configurations using words on a page was also a painter.
• e. e. cummings page at American Poems.
• E.E. Cummings Page at poets.org.
• E.E. Cummings Page at Modern American Poetry.

• Jorge Luis Borges: the Garden of Forking Paths at Authors: the Libyrinth, a marvelous site devoted to 20th century experimental literature. Simply by combining the words "library" and "labyrinth," this site offers insights into the nature of the web: an electronic library instantly accessed, rapidly explored, and thus allowing - nay, triggering abstraction.
• The Jorge Luis Borges Collection.

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