by Pat Rosier
Painting Composition 8, July 1923 by Wassily Kandinsky At Guggenheim Museum, New York. Find images online by searching artist name + painting title. Return to text.
The Emily Dickinson poem referred to is number 1129, in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, (ed) Thomas H. Johnson, Faber & Faber, 1970 Return to text.
A reference to “Disobedience” by AA Milne The Christopher Robin Verses, Methuen, London 1932. It can also be found online by Searching: A A Milne Disobedience. Return to text.
From “On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peele Castle” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The only place I have found this poem is in Romanticism, An Anthology, 2nd Edition, Duncan Wu, 1994 . Return to text.
Sculpture, Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, by Edgar Degas, around 1880. At national gallery of Art, Washington DC. Find images online by searching artist name + painting title. Return to text.
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Dejection: An Ode.” Widely anthologised. Can be found online by searching poet name + poem title. Return to text.
Painting, Composition C (no 111) With Red, Yellow and Blue, 1935 by Piet Mondrian. At the Tate Modern, London. Find images online by searching artist name + painting title. Return to text.
Quotes are from the novel, The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector, Trans José Olympio, 1977, Publ Carcanet, GB, 1992, pages 12, 60 and 62. Quoted with permission. Return to text.
Lines from William Blake’s poem, “But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance.” Many libraries have editions of Blake’s works. From the poem, “The Four Zoas, Night the Ninth.” Online at www.poemhunter.com
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Painting, Montagne Saint-Victoire by Paul Cézanne, 1887. At the Courtauld Gallery, London. Find images online by searching artist name + painting title. Return to text.
Lines from William Blake “The Echoing Green,” from Songs of Innocence. Widely anthologised. Find online by searching poet name and poem title. Return to text.
Painting, Dorothy M C Hodgkin by Maggie Hambling, 1985. At The National Portrait Gallery, London. To see an image of this painting online, go to National Portrait Gallery website, www.npg.org.uk and search on the name of either the painter or the subject. Return to text.
Line from Anna Laetitia Barbauld “A Summer Evening’s Meditation” See The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Eds. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft. Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 1994. Find it online at poemhunter.com Return to text
References to various Paul Klee paintings. He is well-represented in art histories and monographs. Searching online using the artist’s name and any title of a mentioned painting will locate images of that painting. There is also a dedicated Paul Klee website at www.paulklee.com Return to text
Reference to Rita Angus painting, Tree, 1943. In Rita Angus, the catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of her work in 1982/3. Original painting at Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. Find an image online by searching at http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ Return to text
Line from William Shakespeare, The Tempest Act IV, Scene i. Find in public libraries or by googling the line. Return to text.
Lines from Lord Byron “Fare Thee Well” Widely anthologised. Find it online at: www.classicauthors.net/Byron/ Return to text
Installation How It Is by Miroslaw Balka There is an item about this installation on the Tate Modern website at http://www.tate.org.uk and reviews of his work can be found online by searching on his name. Return to text.
Painting Olympia by Edouard Manet, 1863. At the Musée D’Orsay in Paris. Find images online by searching artist name + painting title. Return to text.
Painting, The Card Players by Paul Cézanne, 1892. At the Louvre, Paris. Find images online by searching artist name + painting title. Return to text.
Painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, 1562. At the Louvre, Paris. Find images online by searching artist name + painting title. Return to text.
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, From The Raymond Chandler Omnibus Hamish Hamilton,1953, page 98 Return to text.
Sculpture from France in the 14th Century, of Charles V and his wife. At the Louvre. There is an image of this work on the Louvre website, but it’s hard to find - search french sculptures on the website with “Sculptures from the age of Charles V” and/or “Room 9 Richelieu, Rez-de-chaussée.” Return to text.
The Rembrandt room at the Louvre. Search the Louvre website - http://www.louvre.fr/ by the artist’s name for images. Return to text.
Installations by Yayoi Kusama at the /Wellington City Gallery, Sept 09 - Feb 10. Search on the artist’s name for online images of her work. Return to text.
Reference to “The Magpies” from Recent Poems (1941) by Denis Glover, also in Enter Without Knocking, Pegasus Press, 1971. Return to text.
Denis Glover, “The Two Flowers,” from Diary To A Woman, The Cats-Paw Press, 1971. Quoted with permission. Return to text.
Dinah Hawken, “Can I Do It?” From Oh There You Are Tui! Victoria University Press, 2001, page 75 Quoted with permission. Return to text.
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Thank you for reading Where The HeArt Is. It is my fourth novel. The other three are so far available only in print form. Poppy’s Progress and Poppy’s Return are available from http://spinfexpress.com.au You will find Take It Easy at http://www.womensbookshop.co.nz
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