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Writing a Book
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
Travel as it was – and as it can be
My review of books by Chloe Chard and Gwendolyn Leick Travel as it was — and as it can be.
Posted in Essays
Tagged Chloe Chard, dictators, Gwendolyn Leick, Italy, mausoleums, the grand tour
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‘Nonfinito’ or the Art of Incompletion
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
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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David Wall, my boyhood friend, has passed away. A truly noble dancer.
Here he is as Lescaut.
Reading with Fawzi Karim
Back in 2013, Fawzi Karim and I had a new book of my translations of his poetry out from Carcanet – called Incomprehensible Lesson Click for more details and a poem from the book For reviews of Plague Lands and … Continue reading
