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Description: | u inscr. t.l. "13"; inscr. c.r.. "INSIDE the BOX of BONE, the PARCEL of FLESH, / UNDER the HELMET of that NOBLE HEAD / THE FIGURE of a NAKED WOMAN STANDS, / SMALL< BEAUTIFUL, OBSCENELY MUTILATED / / GOD KNOWS SHE has ACHIEVED MANY THINGS, / HEART, SPINE, a BRAIN to CAP THEM, / THE USE of WORDS and FIRE, / TILL NOW, ENSHRINED in RIBS of DRAGON/ ARMOUR/ ALL her WEAPONS SEEM A WEARY WEIGHT, / HER WOUNDS NOT WORTH PROTECTING"; inscr. l. "FOUR POEMS FROM A SEQUENCE OF TWENTY-ONE BY ALISDAIR GRAY" CRE GRAY, Alasdair; (Scottish; b.1934) A few years after the drawings were purchased, the artist decided to produce photolithographs based on their design. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ILLUSTRATION : POEM : POEM : ILLUSTRATION : SET : ALLEGORY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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