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Monthly Archives: September 2015
L’ORIGINE
Why do you allow it to dominate the brain, This feeling things have come to roost, right here and now? Like a writer out of style, steep yourself in porno, Morbidly refining what hardly seems worthwhile; The sad sperm swimming through … Continue reading
THE DEHUMANIZATION OF ART (1925) Jose Ortega y Gasset
This essay has been a major influence on my work and my thought. I read it in my twenties, and still value it greatly. Ortega has always been appreciated by US intellectuals, but is hardly ever cited by writers on art and … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays
Tagged Chateaubriand, Debussy, Joyce, Mallarme, modern art, modern poetry, Pirandello, Proust, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Romanticism, Stravinsky, Wagner, Wolfflin, Zola
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THE USE OF POETRY – A Lecture by Basil Bunting
drawing of Basil Bunting by Erin O’Brien Back in 1985, I found this Lecture in Writing Magazine 12, published in Vancouver BC. It made a big impression then and it still does – take on board his usage and turns … Continue reading
Posted in Essays
Tagged Arab philosophy, Basil Bunting, Chopin, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukovsky, Scarlatti, T S Eliot, the use of poetry, troubadours, Wyatt
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THE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE ART
Here is a Link to my book The Analysis of Performance Art and here is a link to a performance archive of the 1970s that I am featured on. Glimpses of Before 1970s Performance Art in the UK A LADA … Continue reading