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Asmodeus

Desire and Measure

Giving form to a desire also requires recognising its limit.

From the story of Tobit to ceremonial catalogues: study how Asmodeus’s names, images and functions change. Includes workshops and twelve contemporary operations on desire, craft, measure and commitment.

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  • Tobit, the Testament of Solomon and catalogues within their own contexts.
  • Names, authority, composite anatomy and attributed skills.
  • Images and graphic characters with their documentary references.
  • Twelve contemporary operations with preparation, sequence, closing and commentary.
  • Reading cases, personal records and sources consulted.

You can follow the historical journey without doing the practices. If you choose to explore them, you will find contemporary compositions clearly identified as such, with preparation, practice and closure.

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  1. Read the source. Recognise the creation.p. 6
  2. Desire and Measurep. 7
  3. A name across witnessesp. 8
  4. A Name That Changes Worldsp. 9
  5. One Name, Three Contextsp. 10
  6. What an Etymology Allows Us to Sayp. 11
  7. The Asterisk of a Reconstructionp. 12
  8. Sarah, Tobias and Deliverancep. 13
  9. The Story Preserves Sarahp. 14
  10. Sarah Has a Voice of Her Ownp. 15
  11. Accusation and Narrationp. 16
  12. Raphael and the Logic of Deliverancep. 17
  13. An Object within a Storyp. 18
  14. Solomon's Interrogationp. 19
  15. Attribution to a Kingp. 20
  16. Authority Is Also an Argumentp. 21
  17. Answering Does Not Mean Having No Voicep. 22
  18. Tobit and the Testament: Reading in Parallelp. 23
  19. Affinity Does Not Prove the Whole Transmissionp. 24
  20. The Three-Headed Kingp. 25
  21. Three Heads, a New Interpretationp. 26
  22. Weyer: Name, Office and Descriptionp. 27
  23. Thirty-Five Is Not Thirty-Twop. 28
  24. A King within a Systemp. 29
  25. Rank Does Not Explain Every Abilityp. 30
  26. Anatomy of a Composite Imagep. 31
  27. A Portrait Made of Partsp. 32
  28. The Character Is Not a Secret Letterp. 33
  29. The Character within a Seriesp. 34
  30. Ring, Treasure and Invisibilityp. 35
  31. A Variant Changes the Readingp. 36
  32. From Catalogue to Engravingp. 37
  33. From Text to Engravingp. 38
  34. Reading a Nineteenth-Century Dictionaryp. 39
  35. The Entry Continues on Another Pagep. 40
  36. The Image of Someone Who Does Not Appearp. 41
  37. The Absent Figurep. 42
  38. A Practice with Measurep. 43
  39. A Practice Has Its Own Resultp. 44
  40. Tobias and the Angelp. 45
  41. Reading a Horizontal Paintingp. 46
  42. Asmodée in 1863p. 47
  43. Signature and Attributionp. 48
  44. The Character in the Seriesp. 49
  45. A Story within the Landscapep. 50
  46. A Small Scene in a Landscapep. 51
  47. The Entry Begins Herep. 52
  48. The Guide in the Drawingp. 53
  49. Attributed Does Not Mean Signedp. 54
  50. An Encounter Drawn in Chalkp. 55
  51. The Medium Leaves Tracesp. 56
  52. Gesture, Fish and Journeyp. 57
  53. A Gesture Does Not Tell the Whole Journeyp. 58
  54. Symbols with provenancep. 59
  55. Preparing the tablep. 60
  56. The Table and the Scopep. 61
  57. The form of the ceremonyp. 62
  58. The Formula Accompanies the Actionp. 63
  59. Twelve ceremoniesp. 64
  60. 01 · THE DECLARATION OF DESIREp. 65
  61. 01 · Sequence and closingp. 66
  62. 01 · Reading and recordp. 67
  63. From Recognition to an Actionp. 68
  64. 02 · THE KING'S THREE VOICESp. 69
  65. 02 · Sequence and closingp. 70
  66. 02 · Reading and recordp. 71
  67. Three Voices before a Decisionp. 72
  68. 03 · THE RING OF MEASUREp. 73
  69. 03 · Sequence and closingp. 74
  70. 03 · Reading and recordp. 75
  71. The Limit You Can Fulfilp. 76
  72. 04 · THE CLEAR ACCOUNTp. 77
  73. 04 · Sequence and closingp. 78
  74. 04 · Reading and recordp. 79
  75. A Calculation That Can Be Checkedp. 80
  76. 05 · THE WELL-DRAWN FIGUREp. 81
  77. 05 · Sequence and closingp. 82
  78. 05 · Reading and recordp. 83
  79. A Figure with Measurementsp. 84
  80. 06 · THE DEDICATION OF THE CRAFTp. 85
  81. 06 · Sequence and closingp. 86
  82. 06 · Reading and recordp. 87
  83. A Criterion for Craftp. 88
  84. 07 · THE VEIL OF PRIVACYp. 89
  85. 07 · Sequence and closingp. 90
  86. 07 · Reading and recordp. 91
  87. Privacy without Disappearingp. 92
  88. 08 · THE AVAILABLE TREASUREp. 93
  89. 08 · Sequence and closingp. 94
  90. 08 · Reading and recordp. 95
  91. The Treasure Already Availablep. 96
  92. 09 · THE INTERRUPTION OF DISCORDp. 97
  93. 09 · Sequence and closingp. 98
  94. 09 · Reading and recordp. 99
  95. Interrupting before Respondingp. 100
  96. 10 · THE CROWN WITHOUT POSSESSIONp. 101
  97. 10 · Sequence and closingp. 102
  98. 10 · Reading and recordp. 103
  99. An Invitation Allows a Nop. 104
  100. 11 · OBSERVING THE SKYp. 105
  101. 11 · Sequence and closingp. 106
  102. 11 · Reading and recordp. 107
  103. Seeing, Identifying and Imaginingp. 108
  104. 12 · THE COMMITMENT TO MEASUREp. 109
  105. 12 · Sequence and closingp. 110
  106. 12 · Reading and recordp. 111
  107. The Promise Ends Where You Agreedp. 112
  108. How to keep a recordp. 113
  109. A Partial Result Is Also Describedp. 114
  110. Record of a sessionp. 115
  111. Motif and composition · 1p. 116
  112. Motif and composition · 2p. 117
  113. Words for reading · 1p. 118
  114. Words for reading · 2p. 119
  115. Sources consulted · 1p. 120
  116. Sources consulted · 2p. 121
  117. Images and rights · 1p. 122
  118. Images and rights · 2p. 123
  119. Returning to the bookp. 124
  120. Returning with a Different Measurep. 125

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