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About anthonyhowelljournal

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

Grotesque: Ancient and Modern

Posted on August 8, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

“In the famous Kerch terracotta collection we find figurines of senile pregnant hags. Moreover, the old hags are laughing. This is a typical and very strongly expressed grotesque.  It is ambivalent.  It is pregnant death, a death that gives birth.  … Continue reading →

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IMMORALISM

Posted on July 17, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

  And having thus created me, Thus rooted me, he bade me grow Guiltless forever, like a tree That buds and blooms, nor seeks to know The law by which it prospers so …   André Gide refers to these … Continue reading →

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Lars Elling

Posted on July 9, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

  Interesting artist! More about him at http://www.larselling.no/

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Fetishism and the Uncanny

Posted on July 7, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

Remember how the media presented Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays towards the end of the last century: the idea was that X-rays allow us to see a person who is still alive as if he were already dead, reduced to a … Continue reading →

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Prison, Pumping Iron and Performance

Posted on April 1, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

“It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be.” xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxBertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life. These days, the emphasis of the penal system is on teaching inmates ‘functional skills’, abilities which are supposed … Continue reading →

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Writing a Book

Posted on March 24, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

By Vyvyan Holland I found this article many years ago in the June 1958 edition of Harper’s Bazaar (in those days it still carried adverts in French!). Written by the son of Oscar Wilde, in an age before creative writing … Continue reading →

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Travel as it was – and as it can be

Posted on March 24, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

My review of books by Chloe Chard and Gwendolyn Leick Travel as it was — and as it can be.

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‘Nonfinito’ or the Art of Incompletion

Posted on December 9, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

Nonfinito or the Art of Incompletion “Infinity, though of another kind, causes much of our pleasure in agreeable, as well as of our delight in sublime images. The spring is the pleasantest of the seasons; and the young of most … Continue reading →

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Grandeur versus the Sublime

Posted on July 30, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

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 →

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Quietism, the ‘vacancy’ of Formal Art

Posted on July 27, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

 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 →

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