[{"id":18029,"title":"Goose of Hermogenes","dimensions":"19.8 x 12.9 cm, 115 p., language : English, publisher : Peter Owen Publishers, London, 2003, ISBN : 0-7206-1177-6","date_begin":"1961-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"Artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/9","stream_count_app":7,"permalink":"goose-of-hermogenes","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Ithell Colquhoun","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/039/479/large/20180201100501486_0001.jpg?1517476047","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe heroine of this story (described only as \u0026#39;I\u0026#39;) is compelled to visit a mysterious uncle who turns out to be a black magician who lords over a kind of Prospero\u0026#39;s Island that exists out of time and space. Startled by his bizarre behavior and odd nocturnal movements, she eventually learns that he is searching for the philosopher\u0026#39;s stone. When his sinister attentions fall upon the priceless jewel heirloom in her possession, bewilderment turns into stark terror and she realizes she must find a way off the island. An esoteric dreamworld fantasy composed of uncorrelated scenes and imagery mostly derived from medieval occult sources, \u003cem\u003eGoose of Hermogenes\u003c/em\u003e might be described as a gothic novel, an occult picaresque, or a surrealist fantasy. However one wants to approach this obscure tale, it remains today as vividly unforgettable and disturbing as when it was first published by Peter Owen in 1961.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/goose.htm\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":18520,"title":"I Saw Water","dimensions":"22.80 x 14.24 cm, 228 p, language: English, publisher: Penn State University Press, ISBN: 978-0-271-06423-9","date_begin":"2014-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/354","stream_count_app":10,"permalink":"i-saw-water","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/040/260/medium_500/I_saw_water.jpg?1522699239","cached_actor_names":"Ithell Colquhoun","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/040/260/large/I_saw_water.jpg?1522699239","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUnpublished during \u003cspan class=\"ord\"\u003eIthell Colquhoun\u0026#39;s\u003c/span\u003e lifetime, \u003cem\u003eI Saw Water\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;has now appeared in print, in a scholarly edition with introduction and end notes. Composed almost entirely of material assembled from the author\u0026rsquo;s dreams, \u003cem\u003eI Saw Water \u003c/em\u003echallenges such fundamental distinctions as those between sleeping and waking, the two separated genders, and life and death. It is set in a convent on the Island of the Dead, but its spiritual context derives from sources as varied as Roman Catholicism, the teachings of the Theosophical Society, Goddess spirituality, Druidism, the mystical Qabalah, and Neoplatonism.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWorking notes demonstrate the extent to which Colquhoun\u0026rsquo;s dreams provided the source material. She began work on the novel in about 1967, selecting dreams from her dream diaries from as far back as 1939. In the sense that she selected, edited and re-arranged her dreams, \u003cem\u003eI Saw Water\u003c/em\u003e is a collage novel, comparable in certain respects to the collage novels of Max Ernst.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/i_saw_water.htm\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]