Steve_Bamlett_blog

WARNING: Contains spoilers. For short account of Forum Bookshop account see: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2020/02/19/reflecting-on-the-author-talk-at-forum-books-corbridge-18th-february-2020-7p-m-deepa-anappara-2020-djinn-patrol-on-the-purple-line/ Reflecting on a debut novel by Deepa Anappara (2020) Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line London, Chatto & Windus. Prior to seeing the author talk at Forum Books, Corbridge 18th February 2020, 7p.m. Anappara speaks very usefully about her debut novel in an … More Reflecting on a debut novel by Deepa Anappara (2020) ‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line’ London, Chatto & Windus.

Reflecting on a study day based on Mikhail Karikis’ exhibition, For Many Voices, held at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), part of Teesside University. @mimauseful (some phrases from the MIMA description are lifted here to ease the typing project). Further information in links. MIMA has a good record of bringing artists and academics together to … More Reflecting on a study day based on Mikhail Karikis’ exhibition, ‘For Many Voices’, held at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA).

Being a lover of second-hand books. An example of what it might mean to own a book. People ‘of a certain age’ is how you think of describing those who haunt second-hand bookshops, book-fairs that occur across the provinces of the UK by of the PBFA and charity shops. That is the impression I have … More Being a lover of second-hand books. An example of what it might mean to own a book.

Reflecting on Performing David Grieg’s Dr. Korczak’s Example based on a Leeds Playhouse performance, seen on the afternoon of 6th February 2020 (run 25 Jan – 15 Feb.). CONTAINS SPOILERS Who and what is involved in the performance of a play? Our expectations of this production is in part formed by our knowledge – at … More Reflecting on Performing David Grieg’s ‘Dr. Korczak’s Example’ based on a Leeds Playhouse performance

Reflecting on the writing biographies of queer couples: St.Clair, H. (2019) A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett-Haines, London, Pimpernell Press Ltd & Turner, J.L. (2016) The Visitors’ Book: In Francis Bacon’s Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller London, Constable. The Times obituary for … More Reflecting on writing biographies of queer couples: St.Clair, H. (2019) ‘A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett-Haines’, and one other book.

REVISION 21st Feb. 2020. I’m calling the experiment below to an end, having received no contributors. That’s hardly surprising in a blog site that hasn’t been popular. In many ways it anyway failed to open itself for collaboration by aiming higher than I could go myself, at least yet. I’m publishing my own version of … More EXPERIMENTAL CO-BLOGGING. Beginning a reflective blog ‘out there’: Reflecting on Garth Greenwell’s ‘Cleanness’ (2020)

Reflecting on the dual concepts of influence and reference in one case study raised in Exhibition on Screen: David Bickerstaff’s film of Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait (at Royal Academy of Arts, London) seen at Gala Theatre, Durham, Screen 1: A photograph of a static scenario performed in 1992 by Leigh Bowery & Lucian Freud and … More Reflecting on the dual concepts of influence and reference in art about art using one case study raised in David Bickerstaff’s film of ‘Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait’.

Reflecting on Exhibition on Screen: David Bickerstaff’s film of Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait (at Royal Academy of Arts, London) seen at Gala Theatre, Durham, Screen 1. Some further related thoughts in: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2020/02/02/reflecting-on-the-dual-concepts-of-influence-and-reference-in-art-about-art-using-one-case-study-raised-in-david-bickerstaffs-film-of-lucian-freud-a-self-portrait/ I came out of this film presentation absolutely delighted – this was not only a great source of information but a work of … More Reflecting on Exhibition on Screen: David Bickerstaff’s film of ‘Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait’ (at Royal Academy of Arts, London) seen at Gala Theatre, Durham, Screen 1.

Laocöon: The struggle against constriction and limitation As I read the essays in Curtis and Feeke’s 2007 catalogue of an exhibition called Towards a New Laocoon (sic.) in the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, I find a central contradiction between: the reception of the work as full of uncontainable plenitude (of meaning, dynamic energy and … More Laocöon: The struggle against constriction and limitation, A reflection on Keith Vaughan.

Christopher Neve’s Unquiet Landscape (2020 revision of 1990 work) London, Thames & Hudson and Doubles: a novel (2015) Kindle Ed.: Reading the unquiet but not silent self in novels and works on visual art The cover of Doubles has a detail of Neve’s Glacier, an oil landscape, in which the strength and dynamism in the … More Reflecting on Christopher Neve’s ‘Unquiet Landscape’ (2020 revision of 1990 work) London, Thames & Hudson & ‘Doubles: a novel’ (2015) Kindle Ed.: Reading the unquiet but not silent self in novels and works on visual art