A collection of writings about place space writing and art …
An exceptional artist and in my opinion an even better writer Leonora Carrington was the inspiration for many of Max Ernst masterpieces, notably The Robing Of the Bride (see A Week of Max Ernst: Friday) and was in many aspects the archetypal Femme-Enfant of Surrealist desire; a dubious honour that Carrington, as one of the […]
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
Louise Bourgeois in Destruction of the Father Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews 1923-1997.
H/t to Bonnie Kuster Butler for this post. When is a book art ? A current exhibition at LA’s Getty Research Institute explores the many ways in which artists create objects that straddle the worlds of books and art. The show, titled Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists presents more than 40 exceptional examples of artists’ […]
Il 28 ottobre 1909 nasceva a Dublino Francis Bacon (1909 –1992), pittore noto per le sue immagini imprevedibili e grottesche, cariche di emozioni, che tentano di sondare l’essenza dell’uomo contemporaneo. Il suo caotico studio fu trasferito da Londra e ricostruito a Dublino attorno al 1998.
Naked Cities Journal 