Life; January 2023
Julian Barnes, one of my favourite writers, poses the question – “is art a depiction of reality, a concentration of it, a superior substitute for it, or just a beguiling irrelevance?” (excerpt from the novel, […]
post-modernism
On Identity: April 2018
This post continues the exploration of the philosophical currents that shape current art practices. A previous post, More on Painting, touched on the issue of identity, discussed in terms of “self-differing”, or the self as […]
A Culture of Change
Richard Powers book, Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance includes an interesting section about progress and technology. Powers suggests that, as culture and its tools changed more in 30 years than in the […]