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JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso

 

JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso

Dear Antonioni …

Nietzsche distinguishes two figures: the priest and the artist. Priests we have aplenty, from every religion or indeed none at all; but artists? I should like, dear Antonioni, to be allowed to borrow some features of your work to enable me to pin down the three forces — or if you like, the three virtues — which to my mind constitute the artist. I shall name them at once: vigilance, wisdom, and, most paradoxical of all, fragility.

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jerzy drozd barcelona deserto rosso los elefantes salvador dali 1948Salvador Dalí, Los Elefantes, Rome, 1948. Private Collection. Salvador Dalí Museums.


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Dear Antonioni, I have tried to set forth in my intellectual language the reasons which make you, over and above the cinema, one of the artists of our time. This compliment is not simple, as you know; for the artist today is in a position no longer supported by the good conscience of a great sacred or social function. Being an artist does not give you a cosy spot in the bourgeois Pantheon of Guiding Lights of Humanity. It means in each work confronting in oneself those spectres of modern subjectivity which are (from the moment one is no longer a priest) ideological lassitude, social bad conscience, the attraction and disgust of facile art, the quivering of responsibility, the constant scruple which leaves the artist strung out between solitude and gregariousness. Today, therefore, you must take advantage of this peaceful, harmonious moment of agreement when a whole collectivity joins together to recognise, admire and love your work. For tomorrow the labour begins again.

Roland Barthes, Bologna, January 1980


Opening and closing fragments of the letter of Roland Barthes to Michelangelo Antonioni on the occasion of the granting of the most important prize awarded by the city of Bologna, L'Archiginnasio d'oro, to this film maker. Translated by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith from the French text as published in Cahiers du Cinema no. 311, May 1980.

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JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso first view
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso f hole and turquoise purfling view
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso full view of bass guitar
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso headstock
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso rear view of back cover plate and croch
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso rear view of the body
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso close up bridge and treble pickup
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso rear view of upper horn
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso close view of the bass guitar body
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso full angled view of instrument
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso crystal dome knobs
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso rear view of back cover plate and central purfling
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso entire instrument
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso view of the instruments fretboard, neck and upper horn
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso rear view of entire instrument
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso view of "f" hole and purfling
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso neck, fretboard upper horn and neck pickup
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso view of upper horn and turquoise purfling
JERZY DROZD Deserto Rosso
Collection: Barcelona, Model: Barcelona V , Reference: 60215-JD

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FEATURES
Semiacoustic instrument
Set-in construction

5 strings tuned EADGC
32" scale
24 Arcadia Gold frets
Cedrela odorata chambered body
Flamed Sequoia sempervirens body top
Turquoise gemstone body top purfling
Flamed Sequoia sempervirens headstock top
Turquoise Gemstone headstock purfling
Figured Juglans nigra crotch body back
Flamed Sequoia sempervirens body back Inlay
3 piece acer saccharum neck
Diospyros crassiflora nut
Diospyros crassiflora fretboard
Turquoise Gemstone fretboard side dots
Khaya senegalensis, "Birds eye" Acer saccharum and Diospyros crassiflora JERZY DROZD bridge 
Figured Juglans nigra crotch back plate
JERZY DROZD JeD5XS-BCN bridge position pickup, single coil v3.4.2
JERZY DROZD JeD5XD neck position pickup , double coil noisless v3.4.2

Pickups covers made of Khaya senegalensis and "Birds eye" Acer saccharum
JERZY DROZD Crystal Dome Knobs with Pinctada margaritifera and Turquoise gemstone reference inlay
Aguilar OBP-3 preamp
Passive tone
Volume, balance, treble, middle, low
Mid frequency selector switch for 400/800Hz
Active/Passive switch
Bronze engraving in bridge, black plate, pickups, truss rod cover
Turquoise gemstone JERZY DROZD emblem
JERZY DROZD Briolette finish
 
HIGHLIGHTS
Turquoise gemstone body and headstock top purfling

Turquoise gemstone fretboard side dots

Turquoise gemstone fretboard JERZY DROZD emblem

Arcadia Gold frets

JERZY DROZD Crystal Dome Knobs with Pinctada margaritifera and Turquoise gemstone reference inlay

Flamed Sequoia sempervirens body and headstock top

Juglans nigra Crotch cut body back

Flamed Sequoia sempervirens
body back inlay


Khaya senegalensis, "Birds eye" Acer saccharum and Diospyros crassiflora JERZY DROZD bridge


Last generation JERZY DROZD pickups, Khaya senegalensis & "Birds eye" Acer saccharum covers

Bronze engraving in bridge, black plate, pickups, truss rod cover

JERZY DROZD Briolette finish
 

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