While newspapers and TV waste our time with poseurs and trash, a Titan as great as any old master has passed away unnoticed (except by his grateful followers, who had been gathering in the last few years in the Facebook page). Jeff Jones - later in his/her life Jeffrey Catherine Jones - was simply the greatest artist in my lifetime. Newspapers ( Read more... )

The worst and most damaging heresy - still largely unconscious and unchallenged - in modern thought( Read more... )

The trouble with having a style is that you may produce something that looks finished and polished when it really is nothing of the kind. My attempt at an answer to elskuligr a few days back was one such thing; I was falling asleep on my feet as I wrote, and I managed to miss nearly every point of importance I wanted to make. But my unfortunate facility ( Read more... )

I have long since come to the conclusion ( Read more... )

THE HEIGHT OF JACK KIRBY'S CAREER: 2001 #s 1-7

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I have been moderately ill (nothing to worry about, I assure you) for a few days, so this entry is later than I meant it. The event it describes took place last week. Even so, it is something so wonderful and important that I decided to post it anyway ( Read more... )

This essay originated in a surprising little discovery I just made. Like everyone else who is interested in modern history, I knew that the Nazis had a marching song called the Horstwessellied, from an early militant who had died in a street riot. Recently I became curious to hear it ( Read more... )

ThreeOranges has made some very interesting points in her LJ(http://www.livejournal.com/users/threeoranges/119698.html). As I am not allowed to post a comment there (which incidentally reinforces my decision not to friend-lock my LJ, whatever the risks), I ( Read more... )

I have been to see the Edward Hopper exhibition at Tate Modern. Hopper may well be the greatest painter of the twentieth century, as he certainly is the one who has most successfully tackled the basic issues facing the art of painting in his time. Time and time again, looking at the best of his paintings (for [I]even Homer nods[/I], and a few of ( Read more... )