Interesting- I like cities too but hate intrusive sounds like the advertisements on YouTube or Classic FM!
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Snow Lanterns, Vienna, Austria
Would be so nice to be in Wien mit ein Glühwein zu trinken!
Very clever printing techniques. Brilliant, interesting!!
I am trying an experimental monoprint technique. The idea is to use packaging material to make intaglio “plates” which are then printed using an etching press. This is the first one. I printed it yesterday on the Henderson Press at East London Printmakers.
This is a real building, a former brewery, just to the South and East of Tower Bridge. That’s the river Thames you see on the left of the picture.
The “plates” are fragile, so I could only make 6 prints before the plate started deteriorating and the contrast started to go. Here is a picture of the plate, front and back. It is made out of a box of soup. I made the picture on the shiny, metallic-looking side, which is the former inside of the soup box.
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Orlando Figes: Natasha’s Dance
Interesting about the Orthodox Church which has quite recently become independent from Russia in the Ukraine. Altogether a complex topic, don’t you think? It is on my lengthening tbr list!!
Anyone who has read any Russian literature or history must be aware of how different a nation Russia feels compared with ourselves or other European nations; sadly this awareness never seems to percolate down to politicians… Agains the current backdrop of the Ukraine crisis, I was constantly struck by the lack of ability or willingness ofWestern leaders and politicians to see the world from the perspective of Russia and its people, which might actually inform a more helpful and sensible response to them. But we are incapable of going beyond the triumphalism of “we won the Cold War”. It was in the hope of digging deeper and understanding more, that I finally opened this tome which I’d bought nearly 20 years ago.
Figes offers an excellent, clear and detailed contextual background at the start, and this is possibly the best part…
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A truly fascinating talk and most thought provoking. The links between autistic relations and topology engaging. Melanie Klein and the Klein bottle. Leon’s enthusiasm is thoroughly engaging.
I am very much looking forward for my talk at the Lacan in Scotland monthly seminar. Particularly, I am delighted to be discussing my latest work on the skin, the skin function, and the dermic drive with my friends and colleagues Amanda Diserholt and Calum Neill. Here is a short blurb about the event that will be broadcasted on Zoom for free:
Counter to the ways it is conceived through both cognitive and identitarian approaches, autism might be productively thought of as a unique subjective structure that sits alongside the classical Freudian structures of psychosis, neurosis, and perversion. Earlier psychoanalytic thinkers have linked autism and the onset of autism to the supposed experience of early disturbances in ‘skin function’. In this talk Dr Leon Brenner will expand this notion of ‘skin function’, exploring its relation to and confection in language. Conceiving the skin as a potential modality of the…
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Autoportrait Day 32~ Yva
Has a very modernist feel- brilliant!!
A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Yva (Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon)(1900-1944)
Self-portrait, 1926 / Gelatin silver print / photo source: Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin, DE
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Lovely and lively sketches!!
Our first sketching theme of 2022 was “Home”, and with the crazy winter weather and the crazy continuing pandemic, home is a good sketching venue.
February’s theme will be coming soon!
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Books I Read in January
You made a great start with Orwell I think. I’ve read a couple of books by Ferdinand Mount. One of these about the Victorian Prime Minister, Lord Aberdeen -basically faction. The other some superb book reviews. Also reading a brilliant biography of Sheridan, an Irish playwright and politician by Fintan O’Toole also brilliantly written. I think it is brilliant that you liked all those books!!!
- Book v. Cigarettes – George Orwell
- Cultish – Amanda Montell
- Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney
- No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute – Lauren Elkin
- All Men Want to Know – Nina Bouraoui
- Heather – G C McKay
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors – Susan Sontag
- A Chapbook About Nothing – Scott Cumming
- Blue of Noon – Georges Bataille
- 84 Charing Cross Road – Helen Hanff
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I resolved to record my reading this year if you didn’t know. I have never done this in my life, and it can feel very self-aggrandizing. However, I offset this by never giving negative reviews. My reasons for this are simple. I would never be so bold as to assume I could tell another writer how to do their job. And, I usually enjoy every book I read, which seems to shock people.
A list like this can…
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Marvellous Pisarro!
After spending six years in rural Éragny, Pissarro returned to Paris, where he painted several series of the grands boulevards. Surveying the view from his lodgings at the Grand Hôtel de Russie in early 1897, Pissarro marveled that he could “see down the whole length of the boulevards” with “almost a bird’s-eye view of carriages, omnibuses, people, between big trees, big houses that have to be set straight.” ()
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Doris Clare Zinkeisen (1898–1991)
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901–1976)
2. Anna Zinkeisen by Anna Zinkeisen, c.1944 / Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
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