a photo of Arthur Boyd because I’m thinking of Bendalong
– Arthur Boyd in the early 1970s
corps de crise, curs de cris, cours de coeurs de cris: notes fragments of Simon Taylor
I was reading Norman Manea’s A Hooligan’s Return, about the exiled writer’s return to Romania.
His book On Clowns remains my favourite. In fact, I quoted from it extensively in a letter advocating state patronage of the arts to Helen Clark in her first term as Prime
the major death of minor literatures: Cioran & Eliade, the setters & killers of trends / & leap-frogging world wars – genealogies of vitalism / irrationalism / Nietzscheanism
In the 1920s, youth were a rising force throughout Europe. Besides, according to Klaus Mann, “the European generation that had grown up during the First World War” was highly sensitive to the existing “moral and social crisis,” the general crisis of European values. The war and the national revolutions it
National’s Arts policy: we are the jelly; you are emerging … with some paintings by Attila Richard Lukacs by way of illustration
NATIONAL: 2008: Arts, Culture & Heritage Policy
by Christopher Finlayson, Arts, Culture and Heritage
15 July 2008
ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE
ENCOURAGING THE ARTS –
ENCOURAGING OUR ARTISTS
– Was Weist der Aisel von Mord, Attila Richard Lukacs, 1988
National values arts, culture, and heritage. We value them equally. We value the
>> new folk >> Jess Chambers & The Firefly Orchestra
– cover art for eponymously titled album, flipside
clear-cut for Key, says Sandra Lee: victory in Parnell for JK
There’s something to be said for a country of approximately 4 million people who want to hold a national election as if it were a US presidential race – to which at times it actually referred.
Prime Minister Helen Clark in her concession speech played the ‘gracious in defeat’ role
RO = received opinion + the sympathetic magic of associativism >> meaning image referring to image in an endless gyre with the implication that thought follows the image; thus ‘It’s time for a change’ = Obama = NZ National Party campaign
* Labour + Greens = a short step to communism
* Helen Clark has been in too long = it’s time for a change
* a coalition headed by Helen Clark = a five-headed monster => a Clark government = a monster
* Kyoto = NZ loses in the race for global trade
* Labour’s foreign policy = no FTA