Category Archives: art

FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, Stuart Sherman and Robert Wilson (1979)

Posted on February 12, 2017 by anthonyhowelljournal

FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Harpers & Queen, May 1979 I reckon this is a historic document, so re-publish it here. On a still undefined boundary of modern art painter Sol LeWitt, dancer Lucinda Childs and composer Philip Glass are working … Continue reading →

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LINKS TO NEW POEMS, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

Posted on March 22, 2016 by anthonyhowelljournal

(This post last updated 29 August 2026) These Six Metaphysical Sonnets by the artist Arturo Nathan have just come out in The Fortnightly Review Very pleased to see I DO MORE DEEPLY published finally in THE EXACTING CLAM MAGAZINE Issue 21 … Continue reading →

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THE DEHUMANIZATION OF ART (1925) Jose Ortega y Gasset

Posted on September 15, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

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 →

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Grotesque: Ancient and Modern

Posted on August 11, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

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“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…

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Pictures at an Exhibition – Sketch 1.

Posted on May 14, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

A lovely piece of Performance Art by Milica Vukovic relating to a picture by Mark Williams, which was shown in his  exhibition at The Room in May 2015.

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Click Links!

Posted on February 2, 2015 by anthonyhowelljournal

Art is not created in a vacuum.  If you click on the “Links” link on my website (anthonyhowell.org)  you get to artists, poets, musicians and film-makers I admire as well as to a variety of my own interests. http://www.anthonyhowell.org/Links.htm

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Testosterone and Art

Posted on November 29, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

A very interesting article published on her blog by Nathalia J Calderon. It’s about testosterone levels and art – not sure I quite agree about the conclusion! http://nathaliajcalderon.wordpress.com//?s=testosterone&search=Go  

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Caprice

Posted on September 20, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

There was an old man who said, ‘Hush! I perceive a young bird in this bush! When they said – ‘Is it small?’ He replied – ‘Not at all! It is four times as big as the bush!’   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(Edward … Continue reading →

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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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