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Arts RSS FeedsDead Not Deid · James Meek: A Great Radical Modernist - The opening story in James Kelman's 1998 collection, The Good Times, is called 'Joe Laughed'. It's nine pages long and is told from the point of view of a boy who plays football on a patch of waste ground among derelict industrial buildings by the river in a large, unnamed city which British readers are bound to assume is Glasgow. You don't find out the boy's name, or his age, although hints and the boy's style of reflection encourage you to gues...Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Unhoused · Terry Eagleton on anonymity - All literary works are anonymous, but some are more anonymous than others. It is in the nature of a piece of writing that it is able to stand free of its begetter, and can dispense with his or her physical presence. In this sense, writing is more like an adolescent than a toddler. I might pass you a note at a meeting, but a note is only a note if it can function in my absence. Writing, unlike speech, is meaning that has come adrift from its sourc... Diary · Kevin Kopelson: Confessions of a Plagiarist - I quote too much. Give me a good line - what am I saying? Give me a good paragraph - even a Proustian one - and I'll shove it into my own prose regardless of how tiresome that is. Take my last book, on the satirist David Sedaris. Not only do you get more Proust than you'd ever care for, you get an awful lot of Sedaris - pure, unadulterated Sedaris. It's not that I'm lazy. Or rather, it's not just that I'm lazy.... Where do we go from here? · R.W. Johnson on Zimbabwe - The sequence of events that produced the current deadlock in Zimbabwe began on 11 March last year when Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of other members of the Movement for Democratic Change were arrested, tortured and beaten. Robert Mugabe had banned all MDC meetings and rallies in the hope of suppressing the MDC completely before this year's elections.... Free-Marketeering · Stephen Holmes on Naomi Klein - The anti-globalisation movement suffered a dizzying setback on 9/11. Symbolic gatecrashing into the well-guarded meeting places of the super-rich suddenly seemed a much more sinister activity than before. Busting up branches of Starbucks and other Seattle-style antics became anathema in an atmosphere of injured and vindictive patriotism. But Naomi Klein, the combative theorist and publicist of anti-globalisation, was not about to accept such guil... Art Is a Cupboard! · Tony Wood on Daniil Kharms - An old woman leans out of her window and, 'because of her excessive curiosity', leans too far: she falls to the ground and shatters to pieces. A second old woman leans out of her window to see what has happened to the first - and also leans too far, tumbling to the same fate. More women follow suit (a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth), a chain that ends only because the narrator of this story, 'sick of watching them', breaks off to go to the mar... End-of-the-World Trade · Donald MacKenzie on the credit crisis - Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks' headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund's St James's office trying to understand the credit crisis that had erupted over the previous four months. I became intrigued by an oddity that I came to think of as the end-of-the-world trade. The trade is the purchase of insurance against what would in effect be the failure of the modern capit... The Divisions of Cyprus · Perry Anderson - Enlargement, widely regarded as the greatest single achievement of the European Union since the end of the Cold War, and occasion for more or less unqualified self-congratulation, has left one inconspicuous thorn in the palm of Brussels. The furthest east of all the EU's new acquisitions, even if the most prosperous and democratic, has been a tribulation to its establishment, one that neither fits the uplifting narrative of the deliverance of cap... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 10... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 10... Art History Coloring Pages - Just the thing for a rainy day or a project book: a DIY masterpiece. The very talented Margaret Esaak has greated some wonderful Art History Coloring Pages for Shelley Esaak's ... Draw a '3D' Pyramid in Perspective - Once you're confident with drawing simple boxes in one-point perspective and two-point perspective, you can have some fun with more interesting shapes. A useful technique is the 'crossed diagonals' ... Are your drawings in soft focus? - I hadn't realized that I was gradually holding my book further and further away. The first memorable sign was not being able to focus on a splinter to catch ... How to Draw Hair - One of the biggest problems I see with beginner portrait drawings is problem hair. Usually, we try to draw each hair as a strand, with a single pencil-stroke. This ... What is Gesture Drawing? - Gesture drawing, also called gestural drawing, is an expressive, intuitive drawing based on a close and thoughtful observation of the subject in space. Gesture drawing attempts to capture the essence ... Pencil Shading Exercise -
Try this easy pencil shading exercise to develop your range of tone. One of the big mistakes beginner artists make is to draw too lightly, or less often, to draw ... Drawing Exercise: Blind Contour Drawing - A classic exercise for developing the eye-hand connection, improving observation and freeing up your line, Blind Contour Drawing is often learnt as a student and then forgotten about. If you ... Beginner Drawing Exercise - Wire Drawing - Whenever I start teaching a group of new students, the first thing I get them to do is to draw a picture of their own hands. This is to serve ... Giclee Printing FAQ - Giclee Printing isn't just for big-selling major artists. It can be a cost-effective way of making your artwork affordable for the general public, allows more than one person to enjoy ... Brian Curtis: Drawing from Observation - University of Miami drawing lecturer, Brian Curtis, has made a valuable addition to the artist's bookshelf with his book, 'Drawing from Observation: an introduction to perceptual drawing'. The book is ... Copyright © 2008, Real Estate Investment Tips. All Rights Reserved. |