From Mahendra Singh’s The Dream Book of Mr. Pyridine
Author: Goetz Kluge
Snark Puppetery
Charlotte Emerson’s Shadow Cranky
This is the beautiful result of a 1st year university project to create a video to go alongside a given prose. Charlotte Emerson made a shadow cranky, animating Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. She uploeded it to YouTube on 2016-05-12.
There is no sound. It’s up to you to add it.
The Image Breakers
- [left]: The Banker after his encounter with the Bandersnatch, depicted in Henry Holiday’s illustration (woodcut by Joseph Swain) to the chapter The Banker’s Fate in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.
- [right]: a slightly horizontally compressed rendering of The Imagebreakers (1566-1568, aka Allegory of Iconoclasm), an etching by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.
Monsters
Monstrances
The Ocean Chart
Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1876) has been published “with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday”. But there are ten illustrations. One possible explanation: The Ocean-Chart (aka the Bellman’s map) has been made neither by Henry Holiday nor by Joseph Swain, but by a typesetter.
In the more recent British history, the map has been used by Britain’s contemporary Bellmen before 2016-06-23 to present their understanding of the impact of the Brexit to the rest of the crew. Admittedly, by now the majority of Britains understand the trouble they put themselves into. But as pride and face-saving of course is much more important than something profane like a healthy economy and rational thinking, that map won’t be updated.
2017-09-29
Matte Painting by Matt Scheuerman
Matte painting by Matthew Scheuerman (see also interview by Richard Cave) for Michael McNeff‘s movie
Snarked Beagle
What can Science reveal?
This is the quest of the Snark.
Cheeky
Terror
Crucifix
Lace-Making
Sphinx
Four Artists’ Collaboration
Headscarfs
The Carpenter
Bycatch from my Snark hunt:
- [left]: John Everett Millais: Detail from Christ in the House of His Parents aka The Carpenter’s Shop (1850).
Location: Tate Britain (N03584), London. - [right]: Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck: Detail from redrawn print Ahasuerus consulting the records (1564).
Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Of course this could be incidental. It is said, that Joseph’s head was modelled after the head of Millais’ father.
Snark Music by Robert G. Patterson, performed by Luna Nova Music
The Hunting of the Snark
Robert G. Patterson, composer
Lewis Carroll, text
Published on Jul 2, 2015