In the early 1960s, Agnes Martin’s geometric compositions evolved into what would later be seen as her signature style: the square grid. Referring to these paintings, the critic Lucy Lippard described them as ‘legendary examples of an unrepetitive use of a repetitive medium’. More and more I excluded from my paintings all curved lines, until finally my…
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portrait of books & music
A few books from my Woolf collection. I will be systematic in reading Woolf this year, but unsystematic in which of her texts I read when. Much of the time I will go back en forth, combining her original work with texts on her work. I will also focus on her non-fiction with the same…
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Last weeks visit to Jeanette Winterson’s pages made me very curious about the new Woolf editions from Vintage. Since The Waves is the best novel ever written, and since I’m in the middle of re-reading Mrs Dalloway just now, I found no reason not to add these two new editions to my collection… The third book…
Why I love blogging:
Yesterday Kathryn wrote me a comment: Hi there. If you can get your hands on a copy of Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson i think you’ll enjoy it. Lots in there about Virginia Woolf who Winterson refers to as “Wine and waterfall.” It’s a fabulous book of art essays. So off I went, in search of…
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