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Arts RSS FeedsDon't Ask Henry · Alan Hollinghurst: Sissiness - The story of Belchamber's publication is probably better known than the book itself, which, like its author, has suffered the ambiguous fate of becoming an accessory to the life of a more important writer. It is his friend Henry James who keeps Sturgis's novel distantly in view, at the same time as casting a long shadow over it. James read it in proof, and wrote a characteristic sequence of letters to Sturgis about it, beginning with neat praise ...Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Cut, Kill, Dig, Drill · Jonathan Raban: Sarah Palin's Cunning - Sarah Palin has put a new face and voice to the long-standing, powerful, but inchoate movement in US political life that one might see as a mutant strain of Poujadism, inflected with a modern American accent. There are echoes of the Poujadist agenda of 1950s France in its contempt for metropolitan elites, fuelling the resentment of the provinces towards the capital and the countryside towards the city, in its xenophobic strain of nationalism, stu... The Khugistic Sandal · Jenny Diski: Jews & Shoes - Great shoemakers of our day: Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin. None of them, I think, very Jewish. And if there had been any great pre or postwar Jewish shoe mavins they would certainly have been pointed out to me by my parents, who identified any Jewish achiever in any sphere as one of the family: Alma Cogan, Einstein, Marx, boxing promoter Jack Solomons (the Sultan of Sock), it didn't matter what they were known for, everyone cou... Why It Matters · Ellen Meiksins Wood: Quentin Skinner's Detachment - Is it possible, Quentin Skinner asks, that an entire tradition of political thought, including the most influential conception of freedom in anglophone political theory in the past half-century, 'has been insensitive to the range of conditions that can limit our freedom of action'? A reasonable question, one might think, not only about Isaiah Berlin's influential defence of 'negative' against 'positive' liberty but about the whole tradition of li... What's in a Number? · Donald MacKenzie: The $300 Trillion Question - Judged by the amount of money directly dependent on it, the British Bankers' Association's London Interbank Offered Rate matters more than any other set of numbers in the world. Libor anchors contracts amounting to some $300 trillion, the equivalent of $45,000 for every human being on the planet. It's a critical part of the infrastructure of financial markets but, like plumbing, doesn't usually get noticed. Only a handful of economists, and no ot... After Kemal · Perry Anderson - In a famous essay, one of the most acute self-critical reflections to emerge out of any of the youthful revolts of the 1960s, Murat Belge - a writer unrivalled in his intelligence of the political sensibility of his generation - told his contemporaries on the Turkish left, as yet another military intervention came thudding down over more than a decade of ardent hopes, that they had misunderstood their own country in a quite fundamental way.1 They... Making Do and Mending · Rosemary Hill reads Penelope Fitzgerald's Letters - In 1997, three years before her death, Penelope Fitzgerald asked her American publisher, Chris Carduff, who had offered to send her any books she wanted, for a copy of Wild America by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher. An account of a 30,000-mile journey around the continent by two naturalists, it was originally published in 1955 and was being reissued in memory of Peterson, who had recently died. Fitzgerald wanted it, however, for the sake of... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 19... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 19... Drawing Glossary - I'm currently working on the drawing glossary, editing and adding . I think it's an eternal work in progress! I particularly enjoy researching pigments and foreign terms that have come into ... Paul Newman -
Portrait of Paul Newman by Eddie Smyth
... Thumbnail Sketching - Thumbnail sketching is basically small, quick, simple sketching that you use to jot down an idea, record a detail or figure out a composition, among other things. Thumbnail sketches don't ... Featured Blog: 'Painting Fanatics Locked in an Attic' - Subtitled "Ramon and Christie's crazy adventures in painting, drawing and everything in between". What caught my eye initially was the URL - "highonturpentine" - it reminded me of my art ... 10 Point Plan To Kickstart Your Career - Do you dream of being a professional artist? This 10-point plan lays out the basic steps you need to follow to to turn your dream into reality. Of course, this ... How to Hold a Pencil - Many beginners ask how they ought to hold their pencil - and while some people say it doesn't matter, the way you hold the pencil can in fact make a ... Pricing Pet and People Portraits - Last time we talked about pricing your art, readers had some thoughtful comments on the matter. Some of you mentioned that you'd hoped for more exact guideline - some actual ... Classical Drawing Atelier Review - Juliette Aristides' book, Classical Drawing Atelier, won't teach you all the techniques of classical art, but will certainly inspire you. Aristides is explains why the classical artist uses line and ... Finding My Inner Caveperson - We have just moved house, and my new home has a small wood-fired heater. It's a wonderful thing, gathering twigs and old pinecones from beneath our own trees for kindling .... Pen and Ink Drawing: Dive in the Deep End! - Sometimes I'm being tentative about drawing - especially when I'm 'out of practice' or tacking a difficult subject. With pencil it's so easy to make tentative, uncertain marks, or to ... Copyright © 2008, Blurbosphere.com. All Rights Reserved. |