re-cover nr.41

Opera Aperta - Umberto Eco

This picture was taken in the installation "Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field" (1965 - Yayoi Kusama), at the "Mirrored Years" exhibition in the Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam 2008.

Umberto Eco is an Italian philosopher and novelist.
Opera Aperta was first published in 1962. The book was translated to English in 1989 as The Open Work.

"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."

re-cover nr.40

The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2006.

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian psychiatrist.
The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung - original German title) was first published in German in 1899.

In 1962 was release Freud the Secret Passion, an American film based on the life of Freud. Jean-Paul Sartre was involved in the script writing.
In 1945 Alfred Hitchcock directed Spellbound, a psychological thriller that highlights psychoanalysis merits. Salvador Dali designed the dream sequence.
Edward Bernays, Freud’s nephew, was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using Freud's psychoanalytical ideas on the subconscious.

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

re-cover nr.39

Ethica Ordine Geometrico demonstrata - Spinoza

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2008.

Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch Philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Ethica (Ethics demonstrated in geometrical order - English translation) was written in Latin and published posthumously in 1677.

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."

re-cover nr.38

Nana - Emile Zola

This is an i-zone polaroid taken in Amsterdam in 2003.
 
Emile Zola was a French writer. Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume series Les Rougons-Macquart, and was first published in book form in 1880.

"In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it."

re-cover nr.37

On the road - Jack Kerouac

This photo was taken in a subway station in Brussels, in 2007.

Jack Kerouac was an American writer. On the road is a largely autobiographical novel written in 1951 and first published in 1957.

re-cover nr.36

On the road - Jack Kerouac

This picture was taken in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, in 2008.

Jack Kerouac was an American writer. On the road is an autobiographical novel written in 1951, and first published in 1957.

re-cover nr.35

The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq

This picture was taken from a plane, somewhere over Europe, in 2004.

Michel Houellebecq is a French writer.
The Possibility of an Island was originally published in French (La possibilité d'une île) in 2005.

"And love, where all is easy,
Where all is given in the instant;
There exists in the midst of time
The possibility of an island."

P.S. Gui, esta é para ti!

re-cover nr.34

Sex, Art, and American Culture - Camille Paglia

This picture was taken in Amsterdam, in November 2008. The drawing was made in 2004.
 
Camille Paglia is an American author and feminist. Sex, Art, and American Culture was first published in 1992.