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9 artworks of the brain depicting personality and character traits. Images resemble a black and white negative or scan.
Top row: Woolly thinking, Airhead, Clouded Thoughts
Middle row: Pea Brain, Bright Idea, Feather Brain
Bottom row: Open-minded, Deflated, Wired

Artworks of the Brain as b/w negative images

3-dimensional handmade model of a papier-mache brain unzipped to reveal inner contents spilling out. Inner contents are knitted and the outer shell is made from paper-mache and collaged materials.

Open Minded, artwork of the brain

3-dimensional handmade clay model of the brain painted blue and white to depict clouds in the sky.

Blue Sky Thinking, artwork of the brain

<p>After a painting "du cabinet du monsieur Nau": Nau is described by Lugt, 1921, loc. cit, as "amateur français", with comment "Nous avons relevé cette signature sur l'épreuve du St. Hubert, de Dürer, conservée à la Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, à Paris, mais n'avons pu trouver sur l'amateur d'autre document que le catalogue de la vente ci-dessous. Serait-il François Nau, l'écrivain, né à Paris vers 1715, sur lequel on ne possède pas de renseignements biographiques?". The catalogue mentioned is of prints and drawings in a sale in Paris on 18-29 March 1776. A further sale of Nau's estate is described by Lugt (1956): "Importante vente de 340 nos d'estampes pour la plupart du XVIIIe siècle, provenant du Cabinet de feu M. Nau.", 19-20 April 1790, organized by Basan et Delalande</p>

1 print : etching ; platemark 32.9 x 23.5 cm

A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

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Natural causes and supernatural seemings / by Henry Maudsley.

9 artworks of the brain depicting personality and character traits. 
Top row: Woolly Thinking, Inflated Ideas, Clouded Thoughts
Middle row: Pea Brain, Bright Idea, Feather Brain
Bottom row: Open-minded, Deflated, Wired

9 artworks depicting the brain

The Dedalus book of the occult : a dark muse / Gary Lachman.

An anatomy of inspiration / by Rosamond E. M. Harding.

<p>"Losing a baby, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death, leaves so many parents lost in grief and full of unanswered questions. Zoë Clark-Coates, and her husband Andy, have personally faced the loss of five babies. Out of their experiences came the charity The Mariposa Trust (more often known by its leading division Saying Goodbye), offering support to thousands of grieving parents and relatives around the world each week" -- Page [4] of cover.</p>

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A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

Natural causes and supernatural seemings / by Henry Maudsley.

9 artworks depicting the brain

The Dedalus book of the occult : a dark muse / Gary Lachman.

An anatomy of inspiration / by Rosamond E. M. Harding.

Saying goodbye : a personal story of baby loss and 90 days of support to walk you through grief / Zoë Clark-Coates.

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A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

Natural causes and supernatural seemings / by Henry Maudsley.

9 artworks depicting the brain

The Dedalus book of the occult : a dark muse / Gary Lachman.

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