Auckland Night
March clouds, the first being more about an incidental streetlamp or two and a cloud shaped like a Tommy gun
‘the whole POV from which the necessity arose’ – Stanislas on his father, Balthus
– Eric Gill,
Girl with a deer. Ex libris Ananda Coomaraswamy
, 1925
the true appreciation of art … the philosopher A.K. Coomaraswamy warns us, ‘must not be confused with a psycho-analysis of our likes and dislikes dignified by the name of “aesthetic reactions” … The study of art, if it is
demonic difference and planar repetition – Foucault on Klossowski, with manual
The simulacrum still presents itself in its sparkling freshness, without resorting to the enigma of signs. There, phantasms are the welcome of appearance in the light of origin. But this origin is one that by its own movement recedes into an inaccessible remoteness. Diana at her bath, the goddess stealing
The Petacci Effect
– Claretta
you patronise everything that I am and want to be and care about and yet I am offered no patronage
The crucial question was whether he could go on living as he wished by doing only what made him wish to go on living.
– James Lord,
Giacometti: A Biography
, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1986, p. 264
The Role of Democracy for the Artist’s Poverty
Money worries are