A lack of desks/computers at work today meant I found myself with a "free" day on my hands (with lack of freelance earnings, but never mind that now). I went along to the Wellcome to see the
Identity exhibition - but it was closed on Mondays. Nothing for it, then, but to have a nice cappucino -- and browse in the quirky science-and-art-mostly bookshop.
This book about creativity looked very interesting indeed; articles from various perspectives, eg psychoanalytical. (Instead of buying books that I might want to read "one day", I take photos of the covers ... as an aide-memoire.)
After the Museum of Everything exhibition, I found this book interesting -
but its design was ... weird ... footnotes at right angles, and quotes bigger than the text! On the other hand -- why not? Who wants to read those plangent quotes when they're in a tiny font?
Loved the use of paper sculpture for introducing sections throughout this book -
but the font, the font... an update of Courier ... not pleasant reading!
Another "outsider" book (not everyone who makes Art has been to art school, after all) -
These photo-murals are by French artist
JR - by posting his murals in positions of high visibility, he aims to help viewers recover their humanity. I love the idea of his
Women are Heroes project - instead of the usual gloom&doom&struggle images, he shows women in developing countries (even though they do have to struggle) as happy and cheerful.
I'd seen something like the picture on the right before ... And sure enough there
it was, on Herbrand Street, London WC1 -
Another interesting book to read some day is this one, about privately-owned art: prints and small sculptures, kept in ordinary homes. I feel that it's optimal to be able to handle works of art, to make the connection with the hand of the maker, as well as with their mind. Intriguing to read that even as public spaces were being created in the 19th century (eg the "Hausmanization" of Paris), the home was becoming a private space.
This book about creativity looked very interesting indeed; articles from various perspectives, eg psychoanalytical. (Instead of buying books that I might want to read "one day", I take photos of the covers ... as an aide-memoire.)
After the Museum of Everything exhibition, I found this book interesting -
but its design was ... weird ... footnotes at right angles, and quotes bigger than the text! On the other hand -- why not? Who wants to read those plangent quotes when they're in a tiny font?
Loved the use of paper sculpture for introducing sections throughout this book -
but the font, the font... an update of Courier ... not pleasant reading!
Another "outsider" book (not everyone who makes Art has been to art school, after all) -
These photo-murals are by French artist JR - by posting his murals in positions of high visibility, he aims to help viewers recover their humanity. I love the idea of his Women are Heroes project - instead of the usual gloom&doom&struggle images, he shows women in developing countries (even though they do have to struggle) as happy and cheerful.
I'd seen something like the picture on the right before ... And sure enough there it was, on Herbrand Street, London WC1 -
Another interesting book to read some day is this one, about privately-owned art: prints and small sculptures, kept in ordinary homes. I feel that it's optimal to be able to handle works of art, to make the connection with the hand of the maker, as well as with their mind. Intriguing to read that even as public spaces were being created in the 19th century (eg the "Hausmanization" of Paris), the home was becoming a private space.
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