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ITT:
>your favorite painting
>your favorite book

pic related
The Sound and the Fury

>> No.7413322
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Probably Hamiltons Mythology

>> No.7413346
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Winesburg, Ohio

>> No.7413386
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>>7413299

>> No.7413399
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fucking impossible to choose a favorite painting but I'll go with this by Courbet

and GR

>> No.7413407

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

Book of the New Sun, Brothers Karamazov,

>> No.7413417

>>7413322
Is it really that good? I am glad, going to read it after finishing my current book, already bought it

>> No.7413425

>>7413417
Its pretty good if you are into that kind of stuff. The introduction is great.

>> No.7413427
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Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos

>> No.7413431
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>>7413299
Stańczyk
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.7413466

>>7413427
Hello, tumblr

>> No.7414430

>having one favorite painting
>having one favorite book

>> No.7414476
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>>7414430
>having this unoriginal a realisation
Just post a painting you really like and a book you really like like everyone else you goof

Anyhow, I really like pic related and I recently really liked the Castle by Kafka

>> No.7414486

>>7413425
I hear Apollodorus's Library is a better initiate into Greek Mythology, anyone care to shed some light with us?

>> No.7414634
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>>7413427
I also love this painting a lot.


The Recognitions

>> No.7414676

>>7413407
Well shit, exactly this.

>> No.7414685
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Floating Clouds

>> No.7414694

>>7413417
bulfinch is better desu

>> No.7414718

>ITT disgusting plebs
Who the fuck has a favorite book and painting?
PSEUDOS
S
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U
D
O
S

>> No.7414723
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>>7413299
The Dog by Fransisco Goya

I don't know why but this image radiates with hope for me

Favorite book: Blood Meridian

>> No.7414735

>>7414718
>trying this hard

>> No.7414754
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Painting: impossible to choose - Rembrandt's Prodigal Son, Titian's Venus of Urbino, and Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow are amongst them.

Book: Dante's Commedia.

>> No.7414758

>>7414723
pleb taste desu

>> No.7414763

>>7414723
You have a dog, don't you?

>> No.7414764
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>>7414758
I am what I am

>> No.7414766
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>>7414763
I damn near have a pack

>> No.7414771
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>>7414754
I shall post the others also.

>> No.7414772

>>7414766
you a lonely kind of nigga

>> No.7414778
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>>7414771

>> No.7414780
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>>7414772
We all are in the end

>> No.7414782

>>7414772
Nothing wrong with having dogs you care about.

>> No.7414825
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>>7414476
Well then, recently I've quite enjoyed Alcohol by Apollinaire

>> No.7414838

>>7414782
i didnt say there was anything wrong with that, all i did say was that you are lonely

>> No.7414977

Harsh desu. This or the Isenheim Altarpiece by Grünewald.
Seiobo There Below.

>> No.7414981
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>>7414977

>> No.7414990

>>7414486
Depends what you want to read for. I'm sure it friends on the translation, but I remember Apollodorus reading like a dull Wikipedia article more often than not. As an intro to Greek lot or mythology, I'd suggest any book of collected sources before any one author.

Just don't go Bulfinch and you'll be fine

>> No.7414994

>>7414694
Only if you love British fanfics and hate Greek mythology

>> No.7415011
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Moby Dick

>> No.7415012
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The Twelve Chairs.

>> No.7415016

>>7415011
What do you like about this painting?

Also, what are the two in black doing? Especially the one pointing?

>> No.7415037

>>7415016
I've always found flagellation to be a powerful testament to faith, and specifically to the awe of God. To see it performed en masse and for it to capture the attention of an entire city, seems to me to be a living expression of God.

The pointing one would be leading the crowd through the city and the other is most likely reciting from the Bible.

>> No.7415043
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The Crying of Lot 49

>> No.7415046
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The Cyberiad -Stanislaw Lem

>> No.7415053
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>>7413299
Either Savage Detectives or Voyage au bout de la nuit...

>> No.7415077
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Currently reading Mason & Dixon and It's quickly becoming my favorite novel, though I'll have to see in retrospective after I finish it. So far I'd have to go with either The Trial or Blood Meridian.

>> No.7415086

>>7414754
just glad it wasn't that hack fraud Manet's Olympia.

>> No.7415113
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The Savage Detectives

>> No.7415127

Dutch Proverbs is such a neat painting. Every little thing in the pic refers to an actual contemporary proverb, and it's fun to go through them all and try to see which are similar to ones we still use.

I had to do a gay little project on it for an undergrad history class.

>> No.7415140

>>7414990
what's wrong with bulfinch?

>> No.7415175
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Kafka complete short stories

>> No.7415208

>>7414825
Painting name and artist?

>> No.7415275
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

>> No.7415284

>>7414476
Saw the entire Slav Epic in Prague two years ago (my gf's dad is czech), one of the most impressive things I've ever seen

>> No.7415290
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Lanark - Alasdair Gray

>> No.7415308

>>7414723
>The Dog
>a painting done on the walls of a house by an isolated, nihilistic, deaf man raging against the world

the background alone makes me feel like the Dog is in pain or dying and looking towards the sky for a reason why it must suffer.

It's my all-time favorite painting too.

Book is probably Ulysses

>> No.7415311

>>7415275

Does anyone know what's going on in this painting? How are they able to stand in that water? Are they dead and in the afterlife?

>> No.7415313

>>7414735
nah that'd be you faggot
trying to impress people on an anonymous image board with your shitty taste in paintings and books

>> No.7415315

>>7415311
those are just minute waves. Could be that they're on a sand bar.

You could always read it as the afterlife tho

>> No.7415322
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>david hockney -- a bigger splash
>lolita

>> No.7415354
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Death of Ivan Ilich.

>> No.7415404
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Ready Player One

>> No.7415956
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Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

>> No.7416720
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the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera

>> No.7416742
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Women and Men

>> No.7416750
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

>> No.7416752

>>7416750
Thanks for putting the author.

>> No.7416754
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>>7413299

Hard to choose but picture related is saved on my computer so I'll go with this one.

As for book 1984

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il principe - machiavelli

>> No.7416790

what a surprise basically all of you like 19th century art you dilettantes

>> No.7416884
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Commentarii de Bello Gallico.

>> No.7416907
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>>7413299
The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau

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A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man.

>> No.7416985

>>7413299
You art fags are getting crafty, you see that you painting threads are deleted, so you trying to shoehorn in "books" to make it board relevant... alas
>>>/his/art

3..2..1

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Ficciones