PERSPECTIVES
Or Where It’s Really All About One’s Point of View
I think Dover Books must be the publisher the best represented in my library, they do have a habit of publishing all manner of wholly indispensable books on art and history that I simply cannot pass up. So, when asked if I would like to do a foreword for a re-edition of Piranesi’s Prisons, I naturally (and eagerly) agreed. (My own copy of the last Dover edition, which dated from the mid-‘60’s, had long gone the path of books lent and never returned.) Now that the book has come out, here is the preface, with the kind permission of the editors.
Read the whole entry - Posted by John on 31/05/10 | 07:00 PM |
Chronicles
DISCURSIVE
Or Thoughts and Words in Some Semblance of Order.
(After a Fashion.)
After having given a couple of evening talks to art and design students recently, I have once again realized how ardently I desire NOT to know what I will say, that the unrehearsed articulation of thoughts and convictions must always remain a quest for the right word, seizing the brief clarity inspired by those same serendipitous combinations.
Read the whole entry - Posted by John on 15/05/10 | 06:59 PM |
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