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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2
Keaton, Carrington, and Milligan all encounter a similar type of crisis in their ability to pursue their art. The effect on them as creative individuals, and their attempts at solutions, however, are very different. For Keaton, it’s the encroachment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buster Keaton, Hector Boece, Historia Gentis Scotorum, Holinshed, John Bellenden, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Goon Show, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1
(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy
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Mourning and Monsters, 2
(In which we perhaps learn more about the monsters, and the Makarship, than the mourning…) At the end of the short filmed interview he conducted with me after my gaining the Dundee Makarship in 2013, the late Jim Stewart was … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Jackson, Asif Khan, Auchenshoogle, Beanotown, Bristol Festival of Ideas, Cactusville, D'Arcy Thompson, Desperate Dan, Dr Patrick Blair, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Emily Dickinson, Florentina, Frankenstein, Gairfish, Grand Theft Auto, Grove Academy, Hector Boece, Informationism, Jim Stewart, Leonora Carrington, Mary Shelle, Mexico City, Minecraft, Monstro, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Oor Wullie, Pinocchio, Robert Wedderburn, Strawberry Duck, The Broons, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Courier, The Dundee Whale, The McManus Galleries, The Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, The People's Friend, The Scottish Poetry Library, The Uncouthy, W.D. Latto, William McGonagall
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Leonora, Linares, and the Alebrijes, 2
4 The next day I had two new fixations: getting my jacket dry-cleaned, and having a ‘souvenir haircut’. (As I have almost no hair, the second of these is sometimes replaced by the souvenir shave.) Giovanni reckoned that a short … Continue reading
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Tagged Alebrije, Chaz Brenchley, Coconino County, Dia de los Muertos, Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, George Herriman, Ignatz Mouse, Jorge Fondebrider, Julián Herbert, Krazy Kat, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Mexico City, Museo de Arte Popular, Nahuatl, Oaxaca, Orfeon, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Pedro Linares, Reverend Thomas Dick, Roboet, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Tiffany Atkinson, Tona
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Leonora, Linares and the Alebrijes, 1
(I’ve been meaning and indeed longing to get back to this account of my non-encounter with Leonora Carrington two years ago in Mexico City, and to describe what I met instead. Revisiting my drafts within a month of the earthquake … Continue reading
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Tagged André Breton, Brendan Riley, Carlos López Beltran, Claudio Lomnitz, Daniel Garza Usabiaga, David Cronenberg, Elena Poniatawska, eXistenZ, Julián Herbert, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Liverpool Tate, Mama Leukaemia, Max Ernst, Mexico, Mexico City, Museo Arts Moderno, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Ome Tochtli, Pedro Linares, Pedro Serrano, Remedios Varo, Rene Magritte, Richard Gwyn, The Generation of the Lamb, William Burroughs, Wolfgang Paalen, Xochipilli
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Dial the New Unsettlement!
3 It is as an opposition to this mindset that I welcome, rejoice in, and kick myself for missing, the construction and demolition of the cardboard Royal Arch by Claire Dow and Olivier Grossetete. Such fond, culturally-informed and – yes … Continue reading
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Tagged Claire Dow, Dadaism, Dundee, Dundee University, Erin Catriona Farley, Geddes Institute, George Wyllie, Grayson Perry, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Mark Waldron, Monty Python, Olivier Grossetete, Sir Patrick Geddes, Situationism, The Overgate, Whitfield, William McGonagall
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Carry On, Leonora: 5
This summer I went to Liverpool to see the large Carrington show in the Tate. I stayed, as is my wont, in a mid-range hotel, part of a chain so, wherever you go, the rooms and the menus are much … Continue reading
Carry On, Leonora: 4
(This penultimate section is by way of illustrative digression, tying two bits of what I think of as under-acknowledged Britishness together. Especially as those ideas our lords-with-no-sense-of-timing and self-serving masters declare as ‘British’ are tearing us apart in a singularly … Continue reading
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Tagged Doctor Who, Harry Towb, Jon Pertwee, Leonora Carrington, Roger Delgado, The Autons, The Nestenes
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