The Etruscans Buy Postcards and Bind Books
Daily Draw July 4th, 2009
It’s a mixy-matchy day today. Mix it up, learn about art and history, don’t take things too seriously, say “No!” and pat your cat, that’s the message here.
I received a gorgeous postcard from Montana this week for my collection, with a montage of my heroes Lewis and Clark on it. Now that’s a keeper.
I finally found a copy of the Etruscan Tarot, and even though I didn’t have the money, I bought it. I’m like that when I want to learn about something or teach myself how to do something. I try to get books from the library as much as possible, but often the books aren’t available unless I buy them. With the Etruscan, I learned there were Etruscans, which had escaped my notice in history, so I’d like to view the art and track down some art history stuff. One of my history books here has two pages on them, not much is known about them, but they did leave art behind. Apparently Achilles and Ajax are on one of the cards. My car is named Hector after that Prince of Troy, who was killed by Achilles, so I’m sure I will enjoy the references in this deck if I can track them down through the artwork.
A recent book I bought on bookbinding has a lesson which teaches the coptic stitch, and you use postcards for the covers. I’m going to try this as my postcard collection numbers about 700, and there are a few odd ducks that would make good practice covers while a learn.
A case in point: Early Etruscans, Late Greek by B. Kliban (the cat guy.) I didn’t realize until I looked on the back of this postcard that Kliban was dead, he died in 1990. He has joined the Ages, no doubt sketching Etruscan cats and continuing further art exploration in Paradisio. I could pair this with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, and on the back cover I’ve got a cat illustration by Tomi Ungerer that I’ll line with a Richard Lindner image of a mod girl of the Sixties that has snippets of the American flag on it for Ben Franklin’s benefit. You can’t go wrong with a mix like that for a blank journal.
Tags: art, Art Postcards, artists, B. Kliban, bookbinding, coptic stitch, Etruscan Tarot, Etruscans, Richard Lindner, Tomi Ungerer
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