वाङमयीन 'चेटकिणी'....A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

विलास सारंगांची वाङ्मयीन टीकेवरची पुस्तके आपण वाचली तर आपल्या लक्षात येते की त्यांच्या नजरेत दुर्गाबाई कशा शेवटी शेवटी उत्तुंग झाल्या ते.... पहिल्या पुस्तकांतून दुर्गबाईंचा उल्लेख सुद्धा नाहीये... हे पुन्हा एकदा लिहतोय कारण हे वाचल:

"“The absence of the witch does not invalidate the spell,” Emily Dickinson wrote. So great writers bewitch us with their work long after they have absented themselves from the world. The enduring bewitchment of thirty such titans and trailblazers of the written word,"
('Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers' by Taisia Kitaiskaia, Katy Horan)

'long after they have absented themselves from the world' दुर्गाबाई मला कायम bewitch करतात, त्या सारंगांना पण bewitch करत होत्या....

Sappho (630–570 BCE). 

Artist: Katy Horan

अश्या प्रकारच्या चित्रांचे प्रयत्न मराठीत वेगळ्या प्रकारे वसंत सरवटे यांनी केले आहेत - साहित्यीकांची अर्कचित्रे काढून....

Manneken Pis@400; But Could Have Been @4000...

#MannekenPis400 

Wikipedia informs:

"Manneken Pis, meaning "Little Pisser" in Dutch, is a landmark small bronze sculpture (61 cm) in the centre of Brussels (Belgium), depicting a naked little boy urinating into a fountain's basin. It was designed by Hiëronymus Duquesnoy the Elder [nl] and put in place in 1618 or 1619...."

courtesy: Wikipedia

But I realized this milestone only when I saw the following cartoon

Artist: Maddie Die, The New Yorker, February 11 2019

Bill Ward@100

#BillWard100

Today March 6 2019 is 100th birth anniversary of Bill Ward (William Hess Ward) 6/3/1919- 17/11/1998

“....Like many artists of the time, Ward moved between several companies, and around 1946 worked for “Busy” Arnold, Quality’s publisher, who also hired Cole. When Arnold asked Ward if he had any ideas for a new story for his Modern Comics anthology, Ward suggested Torchy—the strip about the dizzy blonde he’d created while in the Army. Torchy was a stripping morale booster for troops, in much in the same way as its U.K. counterpart, Jane. The strip became a huge success and got its own title, while Ward’s particular skill at drawing women got him moved over to Quality’s massively popular romance comics...

... Ward’s women were caricatures from the start; with enormous breasts and miniscule waists, they seemed to totter about effortlessly on 12” heels in skintight cocktail dresses. “Like a lot of folks I’ve spoken to over the years, I’ve had conflicting feelings about the man’s art. Certainly, he produced lusciously gorgeous depictions of the female form, but frankly, a lot of what I’ve seen from Ward slipped over the line from sexy to crass, particularly much of his later work, where his ladies were often festooned with a grotesquely gargantuan bosom,” said an uncharitable fellow cartoonist, Fred Hembeck....

... Ward produced an incredible 30 cartoons a month for Goodman and was paid a mere $7 for each one. It’s estimated that Ward drew or painted over 10,000 pin-up cartoons during his life, more than any other artist before or since. His influence is still felt today and he is regarded very much as an artist’s artist...”

(‘Erotic Comics: A Graphic History: Volume 1’ by Tim Pilcher, 2008)

महाराष्ट्रातील कित्येक माजी-आजी कलावंतांवर बिल वॉर्ड यांचा प्रभाव असल्याच जाणवत...

Artist: Bill Ward

ज्यावेळी वर्तमानपत्रे मौल्यवान होती .....Shyam Joshi on Newspaper Reading

ज्यावेळी वर्तमानपत्रे मौल्यवान होती, त्यावेळी ती अशी वाचली जात....

चित्रकार : श्याम जोशी, वाङ्मय शोभा, एप्रिल १९६७

मराठी भाषा दिवस...What You Can't Say.....

#मराठीभाषादिवस   #Kusumagraj107

आज फेब्रुवारी २७ २०१९, मराठी भाषा दिवस आणि कुसुमाग्रजांची १०७वी जयंती.  

 भाषा दिवस निमित्ताने दोन कार्टून पाहण्यासारखी आहेत .... 

Artist : Charles Barsotti, The New Yorker, 2010

Artist: RGJ, The Spectator, UK

सूर्य-पाहिलेला-माणूस एकट्याने नाचताना ....Xenophon's Solo-dancing Socrates

"सूर्य पाहिलेला माणूस "हे नाटक यापूर्वी ह्या ब्लॉग वर दोन तीन वेळा आलं आहे ....

Bettany Hughes:

 "...Of course comedy is where Socrates belongs. Where else could he be? The ugly, pot-bellied eccentric. The wrong-footing genius; the stonemason’s son who understands how fragile and foolish mortal life is, and yet at the same time how sublime. The soldier commended for his bravery who stands, like a snowman in the middle of a winter campaign, caught in one of his embarrassing staring fits. All the other characters in Socrates’ story – Alcibiades, Pericles, Aspasia – could appear in tragedy, in epic drama. Socrates, unique, world-class as he is, is at the same time a queer middle-aged man with feet of clay. A curiously comforting, curiously unsettling pilot-passenger in the leaky lifeboat. A man easy to mock...."

 

"Socratic dancing",Musée Carnavalet, Paris 

Artist: Honore Daumier

Eve Browning, AEON, January 10, 2019:

" ... For instance, what could be more enchanting than a Socrates who solo-dances for joy and exercise, so unlike the Socrates we know from Plato? In Xenophon’s Symposium, Socrates asks the Phoenician dance-master to show him some dance moves. Everyone laughs: what will you do with dance moves, Socrates? He replies: ‘I’ll dance, by God!’ A friend of Socrates then tells the group that he had stopped by his house early in the morning, and found him dancing alone. When questioned about it, Socrates happily confesses to solo-dancing often. It’s great exercise, it moves the body in symmetry, it can be done indoors or outdoors with no equipment, and it freshens the appetite...

.... Though the historical person of Socrates will remain forever enigmatic, it could be argued that Xenophon strikes closer to real life in his depictions of the man. Plato had a serious philosophical agenda of his own, involving a search for transcendence, purified rationality and sublimity. Xenophon’s interests are at once more worldly and more realistic..."