Songs Without Words | Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-47
Felix and Fanny MendelssohnFanny Mendelssohn (1805-47) A number of her songs were originally published under her brother, Felix Mendelssohn's, name...
Manuscripts and letters
Sensation | Arthur Rimbaud, 1870
Alberto Giacometti - Portrait of Rimbaud 1963 In the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And...
Letter to Jack Kerouac | Neal Cassady, 1951
Neal Cassady, 1951 July 16, 1951 (San Francisco) . After arriving back in New York, Kerouac replied to Neal on...
A Birthday letter to Georgina Watson | Lewis Caroll, October 5, 1869
My dear Ina, Though I don’t give birthday presents, still I may write a birthday letter. I came to your...
Painters [*/ ) The Night Cafe | Vincent Van Gogh / Paul Gauguin, 1888
Van Gogh painted The Night Café in the September of 1888, when he lived alone in Arles. Gauguin moved in...
Days [ ) Essential readings | F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser The Life of Jesus, by Ernest Renan A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen Winesburg, Ohio,...
Postcards II | Matisse / Picasso / Lorca / Kerouac / McCartney
Henri Matisse to André Rouveyre, 1943 Henri Matisse to André Rouveyre, 1943 A postcard sent from Paris by Francisco...
Everything that is hidden | James Joyce to Nora Barnacle, 1909
Nora Barnacle, James Joyce, 1931 . “I always think of you. When I go to bed at night is...
Self-Portrait | Edvard Munch, 1863-1944
Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait, 1886 ...
Alphabetarion # Uterus | August Strindberg to Friedrich Nietzsche
Anna Bella Geiger, Brain, 1966 “Your words have entered the uterus of my brain.” August Strindberg to Friedrich Nietzsche