Isabel Nolan | Primer

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)