Cadmus Books
Taj Barnett
One of the proposals for my sabbatical was to further read in areas of interest in my interdisciplinary work in film and art. I would like to share a few thoughts on one particular book that has had a lasting impression. Roberto Calasso is one of the great polymaths writing today. He writes on literature, art, culture, and philosophy. His books are difficult to define. The book that made him famous is The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.
Did the Greeks believe in their myths? Yes and no. Most of these stories existed to explain the forces of life and fate. On the one hand they are a way to address the season, the mystery of attraction and the reason why a bronze spear misses the foe at whom it was thrown. Calasso has a very refined sense of the balance between story and meaning. It is a book not quite like any you are going to encounter on this old subject.
Welcome to Cadmus Publishing, new genre of publications for and by people in prisons: identified by governments and search engines as Inmates or prisoners. Thus, please pardon the keyword insertions, we mean no disrespect, we just want our Inmate authors to be found.
Our Goal:
To provide an equal playing field for authors in prison. You see, Inmate authors have zero access to the internet, to their profile pages on Amazon, to social media unless a friend or family member does it for them. People in prisons, Inmates, prisoners have no affordable alternatives to promote their creative talents until now.
In the coming weeks and months we will be adding Books By Prisoners to this Interactive Bookstore where visitors may read content from Authors in prison, leave messages, comments, purchase books by inmates, check out their blogs, videos and next projects. Or purchase a gift for a person in prison.
The Citations and Reference formatting style of Cadmus is broadly based on the Chicago Manual of Style. Two systems of documentation, whether footnotes or endnotes or both are allowed: footnotes for descriptive text and endnote for citing a source.
Please contact the Cadmus Editorial Office at edit...@cadmusjournal.org if you have any questions regarding the reference formatting. You may also download a pdf copy of the Reference style Guide from here
The notes, whether footnotes or endnotes, are usually numbered and correspond to superscripted note reference numbers in the text. Citations in manuscripts should be presented as ordinary text, stripped of any of the underlying codes (e.g., fields or hyperlinks) used in creating or organizing them.
Mare Blocker, Istoriato Maiolica : Cadmus and Harmonia plate, M Kimberly Press: 2001, cloth-covered printed clamshell box; Majolica/Maiolica hand-painted ceramic plate; book is a round, case-bound concertina, with printed Iris covers; multiple color linoleum blocks and type printed on Magnani Pescia, 10 x 10 x 2 in.; plate: 10 in. dia.; book: 9 x 9 in. Courtesy of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Collection
Istoriato is an Italian narrative style of pottery decoration that uses the pottery body solely as support for a purely pictorial effect. Originating about 1500 in Faenza, Italy, paintings comparable in seriousness to Italian Renaissance easel paintings were applied to Maiolica ware. Biblical, historical, and mythological scenes are executed with a realism (including the use of perspective) quite unlike any previous pottery decoration. During her Sally R. Bishop residency at the Center, Mare Blocker explored how the design of this pottery changed with the invention of the printing press. Multiple color linoeleum blocks and type were printed on Magnani Pescia. Produced at the Center for Book Arts, each boxed set also includes a unique plate decorated in the style of Maiolica pottery.
Seattle native, Mare Blocker has been making limited edition and unique books since 1979 and established the MKimberly Press in 1984 when she bought her first Vandercook 219. Her work can be found in over 85 public collections and museums including the Museum of Women in the Arts, The Victoria and Albert, The University of Washington Special Collections, and The Library of Congress. Mare is the President of the Book Arts Guild, a regional organization for book artists and enthusiasts, and currently serves as the Treasurer of the College Book Arts Association.
This is the Great Comic Book Detectives, where readers send in requests for the names of comic books that they remembered reading years ago and I try to find them for them! Send any future requests to bri...@cbr.com!
I originally read this story in an Alan Class comic in about 1960-ish, while in a Dentist`s Waiting Room. Alan Class as you are probably aware, was a UK publisher printing B&W reprints of stories originally published by Atlas, Marvel, Charlton, or similar.
The story involved a Man who could grow Soldiers from planting seeds into the ground.I think it was supposed to be based on a Greek or Roman Myth. No idea about Writer, Artist, or anything. On and off I`ve spent best part of 60 years trying to track this down.
It was written and drawn by Jack Kirby in that weird little period where the comic book industry had basically collapsed and so Kirby had to go wherever he could for odd jobs before finally getting to the point of working more or less full-time at Marvel Comics.
It is about a scientist who comes up with a way to grow people, based on the Greek myth of the Cadmus seed, where Cadmus planted dragon's teeth and from the teeth grew an army of warriors (Kirby later re-used the Cadmus concept during his time at DC Comics in the 1970s)...
It was reprinted in black and white not by Alan Class (well, he might have reprinted it, too) by Thorpe and Porter in 1959 in Race for the Moon #1 (I'm using the American cover here, as the British cover is basically the same)...
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