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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Grandeur versus the Sublime
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays
Tagged Anselm Keifer, Grandeur, Kant, Longinus, Ozymandias, Shelley, the Iliad, Veronese, Walter de Maria
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Quietism, the ‘vacancy’ of Formal Art
xxxxxxx 6.42 And so it is impossible for there to be propositions of ethics. Propositions can express nothing that is higher. 6.421 … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays
Tagged fugue, Hammershoi, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Morandi, Piero della Francesca, Pieter Saenredam, William Carlos Williams
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THE GREY SUIT INITIATIVE
The brilliant Grey Suit Issues 1-12 are now online! These are hour-long videos featuring poets, musicians, performance artists and film-makers. They were created in the 90s and are an essential record to live art and poetry in that era. Thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Grey Suit Editions, Performance Art, Poetry
Tagged Art & Literature, BFI, Grey Suit Editions, Improvised music., Performance Art, poets
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ART AND ITS DARK SIDE – INTRODUCTION
Art and its Dark Side – The Eight Rivers of Art A series of eight essays dealing with the ‘rivers of art’ – creative concerns which have the abiding power to preoccupy artists and writers, and which have always had … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays, Key Links
Tagged art criticism, caprice, Grandeur, Grotesque, Immoralism, incompletion, literary criticism, philosophy of art, quietism, the picture within the picture, the uncanny
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