Henri Matisse: Japanese Mask, 1950

Henri Matisse: Verve Vol. VI No. 21-22, 1948

Ellsworth Kelly: Black and White, 1961

Ellsworth Kelly: Magnolia

Gary Hume: Capital, 2011

Gary Hume: Untitled (Nest #1), 2008

what if what I desire I already possess? –mimicry and performance

Every portion of matter can be thought of as a garden full of plants or a pond full of fish. But every branch of the plant, every part of the animal (every drop of its vital fluids, even) is another such garden or pond. –GW Leibniz. 1714.Monadology. §67.

Guo Xi: 山水手卷

clouded leopard

Characters can only exist, and the author can only create them, because they do not perceive but have passed into the landscape and are themselves part of the compound of sensations. Ahab really does have perceptions of the sea, but only because he has entered into a relationship with Moby Dick that makes him a becoming-whale and forms a compound of sensations that no longer needs anyone: ocean. It is Mrs. Dalloway who perceives the town – but because she has passed into the town like “a knife through everything” and becomes imperceptible herself. Affects are precisely these nonhuman becomings of man, just as percepts – including the town – are nonhuman landscapes of nature. –Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari. What is Philosophy? p169.

Indoor Lighting For My Father, 1988

Skin Toned Garden Mapping, 1991

Growing Rock Candy Mountain Grasses Canned Sand, 1992

Gelatinous Too Dry, 2000

Wide Eyes Smear Here Dear, 2009

Henry Blogdet @ Business Insider: CHARTS: Here’s What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About…

Brian Holmes @ Continental Drift: Got Plutocracy?

Ross Wolfe @ The Charnel-House: Reflections on Occupy Wall Street: What it Represents, Its Prospects, and Its Deficiencies

Chris Cutrone @ The Last Marxist: Whither Marxism? Why the occupation movement recalls Seattle 1999

Mike Ely @ Kasama Project: A warning: Rise to defend the revolutionary

P.S.

Above diagram poems by Francis Picabia from the series Poèmes et dessins de la fille née sans mѐre, 1918 published in I Am a Beautiful Monster.

Martin Johnson Heade: Approaching Thunder Storm, 1859

Dexter Dalwood: Bay of Pigs, 2004

Fitz Henry Lane: Fishing Party, 1850

Ciaran Murphy: Lightning Storm, 2008

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Albert Pinkham Ryder: Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens, 1891

Inka Essenhigh: Snow, 2007

Leon Dabo: The Seashore, 1900

Wilhelm Sasnal

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These two qualities, the daunting and the fascinating, now combine in a strange harmony of contrasts, and the resultant dual character of the numinous consciousness, to which the entire religious development bears witness, at any rate from the level of the ‘daemonic dread’ onwards, is at once the strangest and most noteworthy phenomenon in the whole history of religion. The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own. The ‘mystery’ is for him not merely something to be wondered at but something that entrances him; and beside that in it which bewilders and confounds, he feels a something that captivates and transports him with a strange ravishment, rising often enough to the pitch of dizzy intoxication; it is the Dionysiac-element in the numen. –Rudolf Otto. The Idea of the Holy. p31.

P.S. an approach to American Luminism:

An incomplete list of monographs on a single artist by 20c continental thinkers translated into English:

Theodor Adorno. Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music
Alain Badiou. On Beckett
— Five Lessons on Wagner
Mikhail Bakhtin. Rabelais and His World
— Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics
Roland Barthes. On Racine
Georges Bataille. Manet
— On Nietzsche
Simone de Beauvior. Must We Burn de Sade?
Leo Bersani. Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art
— Caravaggio’s Secrets
— Caravaggio
— Forming Couples: Godard’s Contempt
Homi K. Bhabha. V.S. Naipaul
Hélène Cixous. The Exile of James Joyce
— Zero’s Neighbour: Samuel Beckett
Jonathan Culler. Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty
Tim Dean. Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
Gilles Deleuze. Proust and Signs
— Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty
— Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Jacques Derrida. Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles
— Chora L Works
— The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud
— Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan
— H. C. for Life: That Is to Say…
— Athens, Still Remains: The Photographs of Jean-François Bonhomme
Umberto Eco. The Middle Ages of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaosmos
Lee Edelman. Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane’s Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire
Michel Foucault. Death and the Labyrinth: the World of Raymond Roussel
— This Is Not a Pipe
Sigmund Freud. Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood
Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer on Celan: ‘Who Am I and Who Are You?’
Geoffrey Hartman. Andre Malraux
Michel Henry. Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky
Luce Irigaray. Marine Lover: Of Friedrich Nietzsche
Frederic James. Sartre: The Origins of Style
— Brecht and Method
Carl Jung. The Red Book
Sarah Kofman. Nietzsche and Metaphor
Julia Kristeva. Proust and the Sense of Time
— Female Genius: Life, Madness, Words: Colette
Jean Laplanche. Hölderlin and the Question of the Father
Georg Lukacs. Essays on Thomas Mann
— Solzhenitsyn
— Goethe and His Age
Jean-François Lyotard. The Assassination of Experience by Painting – Monory
— Duchamp’s TRANS/formers
— Signed, Malraux
— Soundproof Room: Malraux’s Anti-Aesthetics
J.H. Miller. Thomas Hardy, Distance and Desire
W.J.T. Mitchell. Blake’s Composite Art
Jacques Ranciere. Mallarme: The Politics of the Siren
Edward Said. Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
Eric Santner. Friedrich Hölderlin: Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination
Jean-Paul Sartre. Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
Gayatri Spivak. Myself, I Must Remake: The Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats
Samuel Weber. Benjamin’s -abilities
— Unwrapping Balzac: A reading of La Peau de Chagrin
Slavoj Zizek. The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski Between Theory and Post-Theory

Add missing entries in the comments, if you please.