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Arts RSS FeedsSomeone to Disturb · Hilary Mantel: A Memoir - In those days, the doorbell didn't ring often, and if it did I would draw back into the body of the house. Only at a persistent ring would I creep over the carpets, as if there were someone to disturb, and make my way to the front door with its spyhole. We were big on bolts and shutters, deadlocks and mortises, safety chains and windows that were high and barred. Through the spyhole I saw a distraught man in a crumpled, silver-grey suit: thirties, Asian. He had dropped back from the door, and was looking about him, at the closed and locked door opposite, and up the dusty marble stairs. He patted his pockets, took out a balled-up handkerchief, and rubbed it across his face. He looked so fraught that his sweat could have been tears. I opened the door....Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Caretaker/Pallbearer · James Wolcott: Updike should stay at home - Where Norman Mailer set out to bend the future with his telepathic powers and the Beats sought to hot-wire the American psyche (at the risk of frying their own circuits), Updike wrote as if he were doing fine draftsmanship under a cone of light, honouring creation and the American plenty. He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J.D. Salinger, with Nabokov attending the christening as fairy godfather. Apparent lack of inner struggle and purring efficiency made it possible to take him for granted. 'No one has ever sat around worrying about Updike, the way one apparently worried about Wolfe and Fitzgerald and Hemingway, as if they were all soloing the Atlantic with each book, to see whether he's lost his touch or his nerve or his fastball,' Wilfrid Sheed wrote in Essays in Disguise. 'We know damn well he'll have his touch this time and next: we just want to see whether we like what he's done with it.'... Is it Art? · John Lanchester on video games - There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the non-audience. Books, films, TV, dance, theatre, music, painting, photography, sculpture, all have publics which either are or aren't interested in them, but at least know that these forms exist, that things happen in them in which people who are interested in them are interested. They are all part of our current cultural discourse. Video games aren't. Their invisibility is interesting in itself, and also allows interesting things to happen in games under the cultural radar.... If Gaza falls . . . · Sara Roy - Israel's siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel's siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt.... Among the Graves · Thomas Laqueur: Naming the Dead - Stonewall Jackson, the deeply neurotic but irresistibly romantic, swashbuckling Confederate commander, thought that the great and swift destruction of life and property seen in the American Civil War was the essence of war generally. But this war was not swift. It was long and gruelling: 425 men, on average, died every day for 1458 days. And like the First World War, the Civil War got bloodier and more destructive as it ground inconclusively on. Five of its six costliest battles, with casualties in the tens of thousands on each side, took place after April 1863, roughly the war's midpoint. It ended, as the Second World War ended, in an epic struggle for the enemy's capital. A century and a half later one can still see the miles of ramparts at Petersburg and Richmond; the crater blasted by Union miners in an attempt to breach Confederate defences is still there. Casualties of this final battle were more than 60,000.... Diary · Tariq Ali: Murder in the Family - If cheating in bed was always settled by the bullet, many of us would be dead. Gerald Martin's new biography of Gabriel García Márquez reveals that Chronicle of a Death Foretold was based on the murder of the novelist's friend Cayetano Gentile in Sucre in 1951. He had seduced, deflowered and abandoned Margarita Chica Salas. On her wedding day Margarita's husband was told that she was no longer a virgin. The bride was sent back to her family home. Her brothers then found Gentile and chopped his body into pieces. Márquez blamed the socio-moral dictatorship of the Catholic Church.... Lady Talky · Alison Light on Lydia Lopokova - Why does she want the red shoes? She wants to be special and she wants to be looked at. In Hans Christian Andersen's famous tale, Karen, a peasant girl, goes barefoot in summer and in winter wears wooden clogs that rub her feet raw, but the mirror tells her she's lovely and she thinks that wearing the red shoes will make her feel like a princess. Like selfish Heidi and tomboy Katy, Karen is a mid-19th century girl crippled by egotism. The shoes force her to dance non-stop and to display herself 'wherever proud and vain children live'. Though it seems simply a punitive response to female narcissism, this is a Christian morality tale intended to warn against the sin of self-love. Karen is cast out of her community and her church; she has her feet hacked off, and the story ends with her repentance. What we remember, though, is not the final image of her blissful reunion with God but the red shoes, with the little feet still in them, going on dancing. Shoes were a homely and powerful symbo... America Concedes · Patrick Cockburn - On 27 November the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favour of a security agreement with the US under which its 150,000 troops will withdraw from Iraqi cities, towns and villages by 30 June next year and from all of Iraq by 31 December 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks' time. Private security companies will lose legal immunity. US military operations will only be carried out with Iraqi consent. No US military bases will remain after the last American troops leave in 2011 and in the interim the US military is banned from carrying out attacks on other countries from within Iraq.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 1... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 1... Just for Fun: Wordle -
Here's a fun way to waste an hour. I just love text - my own artwork is full of words. As an art student I would enlarge poetry on a ... Troubleshooting: What's wrong with your drawing? - What do you do when your drawing just 'isn't quite right'? It's a horrible feeling, and one we've all experienced. You spend hours carefully observing, drawing, shading, then you ... Care and Feeding of Your Moleskine Notebook - Last year I attempted to move into the 21st century with a PDA, but got sick of recharging it (or not recharging it and losing my data.) So it got ... Copyright for Artists - Copyright is an absolute minefield these days, so if there's any chance that you're going to sell or exhibit your work, either in a bricks and mortar gallery or online, ... Drawing Fire and Flame - If you're in the Northern Hemisphere and snuggling up by a warm fire, you might want to try drawing fire and flame. This lesson includes tips for simple line-drawing of ... Make a Manga Christmas Card - Bored with those unoriginal mass-produced cards? We have the solution. Draw your own! Guest artist, Shinaebi has created this original Manga Christmas Card design especially for About.com Drawing/Sketching readers. You ... How to Draw Snow and Ice - Here in Australia, we're getting a bit of summer rain - too late to help the farmers, unfortunately - but hopefully enough to dampen down the bushfire risk. So I ... Before You Choose an Art Career - So, you like drawing. Can you make a career of it? Certainly, and contrary to popular belief, it is possible to make a decent living out of art. Not all ... Measuring Up -
Ever wondered what that peering-at-a-pencil thing is about? While it might look like an arcane ritual or secret hand signal, in fact it is a simple and effective method of ... Giclee Printing FAQ - Giclee Printing can be a cost-effective way of making your artwork affordable to the public. While it doesn't have the 'hands-on' originality of traditional print mediums like stone lithography and ... Copyright © 2009, Free Final Money Links Exchange. All Rights Reserved.
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