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• Howard Hodgkin: ‘Too much is enough’

  08-10-2016 07:01
  
  The luscious, edible colours of Howard Hodgkin’s prints emerge from his personal approach to an impersonal techniqueFresh Fruit Crumble, Ice Cream and A Glass of Red are three of the prints by Howard Hodgkin on show at the new premises of the Alan Cristea Gallery in London. Luscious, edible colours make the subject matter of the otherwise abstract images absolutely clear. Food has been one of Hodgkin’s subjects over the years. Other prints take places and the weather for their subjec
  
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• Artists And Anonymity. There Are Problems

  08-10-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is interesting that writers cannot “reasonably expect” to keep their names unpublished, given how many have down the years. Daniel Defoe published as Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift as Lemuel Gulliver (with phoney portrait). Aphra Behn published pseudonymously. So did Henry Fielding. Samuel Richardson was anonymous and Jane Austen was just “a Lady”. Horace Walpole, all three Brontës and George Eliot all had noms de plume, and Eliot’s stuck. Even today
  
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• Verbal Complexity Was Considered Elitist. So How Did TV Become The Place Where It Flourishes?

  08-10-2016 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We live in an epoch in which the battle for the complex and the resistant seems (“seems” is the operative word, as it often is) to have been lost. One of its early casualties was prose style. Style is not just a writer’s personal signature; and yet “classic style” is an oxymoron, because style is essentially idiosyncratic.”
  
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