from Gilda Williams: How to Write About Contemporary Art See also Slow Muse for a short note on Williams’ book
Tag: James Elkins
writing ambitiously –
If you are a student or a scholar (- or a critic), writing is what you do. It can only make sense to do it absolutely as well as you are able – James Elkins * Axel Antas © Obstructed view (Horizon), 2010
—to write the things I will write, given who I am
I have spent the last year looking for my own voice. Putting all other writing assignments aside. It (this voice of mine) has, as some of you might have noticed, bounced off in all kinds of directions. It has sometimes wandered far off into the field of poetry, for then suddenly popping up amongst heaps…
Lovely Blueness
Just the other day Jim Elkins made me aware of a very fine text on blue written by Colm Tóibín. In 2004 Colm Tóibín curated an exhibition at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin called ‘Blue’ which consisted of blue objects from the collection. The following passages are derived from In Lovely Blueness: Adventures in Troubled Light, Tóibín’s introductory essay to…
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