July 14, 2009

The First Men in the Moon

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13 comments:

  1. I'm in love with your blog... thank you so much for sharing your finds!

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  2. You really do unearth some wonderful stuff. A question for you: I just got hold of the Made In Japan prints book and was wondering, where did you find the Hamada Chimei images that aren't in there?

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  3. thank you artdiva, glad you found the blog.

    James, sorry about that. They must have been online image finds -- I was sloppily labeling around that time (and probably still am). I would kill for a print of "Shadow."

    I can scan for you "Elegy for a New Conscript, Sentinel" which is in Contemporary Japanese Prints by Michiaki Kawakita. The three Hamada in the book are monochrome but "Elegy" looks good. That book has 47 paste-in color plates by various artists -- highly recommended but expensive (and heavy).

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  4. That would be great, cheers. I found a few images online here and there, but not much.

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  5. Thanks for your blog. You remind me the books of my childhood and boyhood.

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  6. holy cow will, never heard of him, these are amazing....

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  7. you are wonderful - thank you

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  8. Thanks for the very interesting Hoffmeister work, & the other Czech work. I love your blog but sometimes it depresses me when I see such good, solid work and know that very little of it would ever be allowed into print by ADs & editors today.

    BTW, the Great Dismal Swamp is pretty cool and worth a visit. I grew up on a farm further north, in the swampy areas around the Rappahannock & Potomac rivers. These Virginia Tidewater swamps are very beautiful, a bit of a time capsule, really.

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  9. I'm really impatient for more Hoffmeister to arrive.

    Thanks for the tip on the Great Dismal Swamp, which I randomly discovered on a map a few years ago. Although the name conjures visions for me of The Neverending Story, I expected it would be a cool place. My dad used to drive the family every summer to far-flung time capsule spots ("are we there yet") and I miss these trips.

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  10. Wow, those are fantastic. I'm currently writing something based on the First Men in the Moon - do you happen to know who owns the copyright for these pictures now? Is it possible to publish them?

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  11. Hoffmeister is listed as copyright holder. Since he died in '73, it could take a bit of digging to find the current rights holder. You might send a flurry of emails to Czech art galleries and see if anyone is willing to help. Good luck!

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  12. I am delighted to take a peek into your blog. I was browsing through it (not really reading) and prosaic as it may sound, it hit me with inspiration. Thank you and I shall be stumbling upon it more often or in all honest to goodness whenever I can.

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  13. Hi Will

    I am a student writing a dissertation on Terezin and the opera Brundibar, and I was just wondering where you found the information about Hoffmeister? I am finding it really hard to find information on his life!

    Thank you

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