Background
Terrance was born on October 13, 1944, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Son of Arnold Walfred and Jessie May Lindall.
2002
135 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Terrance Lindall in his office.
Cover art for the Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost.
Terrance was born on October 13, 1944, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Son of Arnold Walfred and Jessie May Lindall.
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lindall attended the University of Minnesota and Hunter College in New York City, graduating from the latter in 1970 with degrees in Philosophy and English.
Lindall's illustrations have been published in Heavy Metal, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, among others. Lindall has worked in comic books, including Warren Publishing's Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. According to The Independent, he has also done illustrations for Marvel Comics.
His illustrations of John Milton, some of which were originally published in Heavy Metal, have been featured in textbooks and modern printings of Milton's work as well as Lindall's rendition of Paradise Lost in prose. One of his illustrations is featured on the Oxford University website created to support its 400th anniversary celebration of Milton. Terrance Lindall has worked with Yuko Nii in developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.
The Williamsburt Art & Historical Center was the site of a 2008 celebration in honor of Milton's 400th birthday, the Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball. This event, which featured some of Lindall's illustrations of Milton, gained international attention. Lindall is also an author and editor.
In addition to his prose synopsis of Milton's Paradise Lost, his publication include a collection of short stories, Blue-eyed Satori: And Other Stories, and an article in Time Out New York.
Prints of Lindalls’ Paradise Lost illustrations are now in some of the world's foremost collections including:
1) Huntington Library in California, Gift Purchased by Distinguished Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. The Huntington’s highlights include one of the world’s most extensive collections of William Blake material. Most notably Blake's original illustrations for Milton’s Paradise Lost.
2) The University of Pennsylvania Rare Book Collection,
3) The University of Kentucky
4) The Alexander Turnbull Milton Library of the National Trust of Zealand
5) The collection of Robert J. Wickenheiser
6) The Thomas Cooper Rare Book Library at the University of South Carolina
7) Professor John John Geraghty
Lindall's art appears on the 2008 cover of the Modern Library’s college textbook The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon.
Holt Rinehart & Winston used another Lindall image in a 2009 high school textbook, with the first run of 370,000. Cambridge University Press uses another Lindall illustration on the cover of the 2014 Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost. Heavy Metal Magazine published Lindall’s Paradise Lost in 1979.
Below, Cover art for the Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost from the gold illuminated Paradise Lost folio with hand painted 24 k gold borders in the collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation.
(In 2011 and 2012 Terrance Lindall completed work on produ...)
2014Although raised a Lutheran, Lindall has developed his concept of God along the lines of Leibnitz who stated that we are all aspects of the Mind of God.
Lindall states: "Now allow me to posit the final contradiction that reveals the truth in that dialectic I was talking about: BEING AND NOTHINGNESS ARE THE SAME things. Both East and West have known this for a long time. SEIN UND GEIST, SEIN UND DASEIN! All thought and existence revolve around these ideas. The gates of the universal computer: on and off, one and zero. And we see it most aptly expressed in the imposing Morse code of Richard Humann’s work. The binary.
But the binary, the dualism of the world, is an illusionary idea necessary to the creation of perceptions. In fact, being and nothingness are the same thing! A great mystery! The proof of this comes from analytic philosophy which asks whether "existence" is a predicate! If we think about something that exists and conceptually remove all of the qualities (hardness, redness, etc.) leaving only the quality of "existence," we find that only "nothing" is left! So too the perceiver and the perceived are one. As Hume pointed out, we are merely "bundles of perception"...no perceiver can be proven to exist. If a person in contemplating the perceiver and the perceived, removes, by process of reason, all perceptions, nothing is left; therefore the perceiver (the self) does not exist... the "I" does not exist. We who think that we are free, our freedom is not even "ours" for we do not exist apart from what we perceive. That we use words like "I" is a foolish convenience because we cannot grasp the truth, and the convenience of such terms or expressions allows us to communicate. It is like the use of imaginary numbers in mathematics. See, "communication" and it’s contradictions are what this is all about! The solipsist says that "only the ‘I’ exists." I deny him even that!
"Ultimately we cannot break out of the dualistic world by which we define all things. Quine, up at Harvard, attempted to invent a new logic circumventing the paradoxes inherent in non-contradiction. Mixed results. And since computer thinking is based upon the binary, the computer probably cannot transcend its own makeup. In that sense, the whole is no more than the sum of its parts. And fractal geometry suggests the same."
Lindall is the Chairman of the Williamsburg Circle of International Arts & Letters.
Physical Characteristics: Lindall is six foot high, blue green eyes, of slim build.
Quotes from others about the person
“I plead guilty to being a fan of Terrance Lindall's illustrations--I guess that's pretty obvious to those who've seen his work on the cover of the Modern Library Milton. Plate 3 in particular rocks my world, as a surfer friend of mine is wont to say.” Professor John Rumrich, Thaman Professor of English
"Radical artist and nonconformist Terrance Lindall has channeled Milton’s spirit into a modern context, in a provocative series of illustrations to Paradise Lost. His visual celebration of Milton reveals his remarkable affinity for the radical English poet, and his ability to create a fitting tribute to Milton’s enduring influence in the arts." Professor Karen Karbiener, New York University
"It is nice to know there is a latter day Bosch around" -- Dr. Leo Steinberg, Art Critic
"...eerie, magical, dreamlike, devastating, jarring...Lindall's illustrative style is magnificent!" -- Julie Simmons, Editor in Chief, Heavy Metal Magazine, 1980
"Lindall's striking and unique visionary fantasy art is breaking new ground in the field" --David Hartwell, Senior Editor POCKET BOOKS, Simon & Schuster 1980
