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Poet, essayist, dancer, performance artist....

Bracelli’s modern art – 1624

Posted on October 26, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/bracellis-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624/ I have long maintained that art has its rivers that have been flowing through culture at all times, and my friend Roger Malbert just sent me the interesting link (above), posted by The Public Domain Review. This bears out … Continue reading →

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Thoughts from the Wife of Bath

Posted on October 19, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

             “My liege lady, generally,” quod he, “Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel over hir housbond as hir love, And for to been in maistrie hym above. This is youre mooste desir, thogh ye me kille. Dooth as … Continue reading →

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An Inquiry into the Sublime

Posted on October 4, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Walter de Maria Lightning Field 1977 This talk for Norfolk Contemporary Art Society in Norwich, Wednesday 2nd October, 2019, is in essence a much edited amalgam of two of my essays in Art and its Dark Side: the eight rivers … Continue reading →

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Nubia

Posted on October 1, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Rome and Nubia With this link to an excellent documentary about what happened after the deaths of Anthony and Cleopatra, I’m going to open a post I shall return to on Nubia. It was thus I was introduced to Queen … Continue reading →

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Tangoshiva

Posted on September 17, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Very pleased that The Step is the Foot is selling so well on Ebay. Our Seller is Tangoshiva. And see also Shiva and my Songs of Realisation Our ebay outlet name is Tangoshiva. Click on this ebay link to purchase Grey … Continue reading →

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Freewheeling

Posted on September 2, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

For a round-up of good late Summer reads go to The Fortnightly Review   Post-Summer Reading: Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico; introduction by John Ashbery (1992 edition) Exact Change | 258 pp | £14.93 $17.95 . Tales I Told My Mother  by Robert … Continue reading →

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Bullingdon

Posted on September 2, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Viscount Bullingdon is the son of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Lyndon, the deceased husband of Lady Lyndon, who Redmond Barry, Irish adventurer and opportunist, inveigles into a marriage that will be advantageous to him. He does so by the … Continue reading →

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Worker in Dotage

Posted on August 24, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

x What can I do but go in search of the rose Although I feel contempt for my persistence? Why can’t I appreciate the twilight of existence? Withered, if appropriate, companionship? x An aged bee, why is that gaunt contemporary … Continue reading →

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Grey Suit Editions Launch – Autumn 2019

Posted on August 19, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here is the link to our Launch for Grey Suit Editions on 20 Sept 19 Two books for the price of one – only at this free event!

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The South African Information Scandal

Posted on August 15, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here are some quotes from The Life of Secret Agent turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman Gefen Books 2011. They concern the attempt to erase criticism of apartheid from the world media between 1977 and … Continue reading →

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