Things to come back to
Artworks - Ways of Not Seeing - BBC Sounds
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nostalgia appears to be a longing for a place but is actually a yearning for a different time—the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams. In a broader sense, nostalgia is a rebellion against the modern idea of time, the time of history and progress. The nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into private or collective... See more
Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym
Experience. Don’t observe.
Inhale. Don’t read.
Transfigure. Don’t shift.
Advocate. Don’t ponder.
Prove. Don’t promise.
Encourage. Don’t cut.
Imagine. Don’t worry.
Do. Don’t analyze.
Hear. Don’t listen.
Show. Don’t tell.
Give. Don’t take.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981)
Best if you’re looking for an epic
This is my favourite book. It is the masterpiece of the late Scottish artist and writer Alasdair Gray, who also wrote Poor Things, which was excellently adapted by Yorgos Lanthimos into a movie last year.
Lanark is a vast, metatextual novel that defies easy... See more
Dr. Rebecca Marks • The Artist’s Way: 4 novels about creating
Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition: Spaces of Display within and beyond the Museum and Gallery
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