Isabel Nolan | Primer
Primer is a new series of reference lists compiled by artists at the invitation of the Douglas Hyde Gallery on the occasion of their exhibitions. We would like to thank Isabel Nolan for her generous contribution.

Primer is a new series of reference lists compiled by artists at the invitation of the Douglas Hyde Gallery on the occasion of their exhibitions. We would like to thank Isabel Nolan for her generous contribution.
Texts:
The Art of Memory, 1966, Frances A. Yates
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic, 2008, Ingrid Rowland
The Ash Wednesday Supper, Giordano Bruno, edited and translated by E.A. Gosselin and L.S. Lerner, 1995
Gravity and Grace, 1947, Simone Weil
Paul Thek Artist’s Artist, 2009, edited by Harald Falckenberg and Peter Weibel
An Outline of European Architecture, 1942, Nikolaus Pevsner
The Mind in the Cave, 2002, David Lewis-Williams
Metaphors We Live By, 1980, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
On the Marionette Theatre, 1810, Heinrich von Kleist
The Moose, Elizabeth Bishop
You can find a good recording of Bishop reading it online; it is also read (and discussed) here, I think Laird’s accent and delivery is beautiful.
Life, Friends, is Boring, John Berryman
Great reading by Berryman recorded in Dublin in 1967
Sidelined, Elfride Jelinek
Lecture presented in absentia upon winning Nobel Prize for Literature, 2004
Film
Hard to be a God, 2013, directed by. Aleksei German based on the novel of the same title by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
TV
The Sopranos, 1999-2007, created by David Chase
Detail of Frances Yates’ reconstruction of Giordano Bruno’s memory wheel from De Umbris Idearum (1582)
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