October 9, 2012
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Hellenistic gargoyle. Ai Khanoum, 2nd century BC.
True and False Griffins[1] by John Ruskin for Modern Painters (Part IV. Of Many Things), first published in 1856.
Ruskin's search for authenticity in art pre-The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? Well, Not exactly. But the True and False Griffins has intrigued me since I first found it on the invaluable Encyclopedia of the Marvelous, the Monstrous, and the Grotesque, the very first grotesque resource on the internet. Somehow this image and its caption reminds me of Marx's false needs.
Also, check out this post[2] by lit blog Wuthering Expectations.
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