![]() What use is it since machinery can make things better and quicker?” which rather elegantly deflates much of Walter Benjamin’s too often quoted essay ‘The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction’ of 1936. A primer designed with the righteous and generally ‘hard of thinking’ in mind, perhaps? One excellent example of Flaubert’s prescience is the entry for art, which is as follows, “Shortest path to the poorhouse. This insightful and satirical little book, which was first published in 1911, is an alphabetical list of platitudes, cliches and lazy thinking. Initially it was Gustave Flaubert’s Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas that caught her attention. ![]() A journey that has embraced english culture in many different forms, from Radio 4’s ‘Test Match Special’ and ‘You and Yours’ to green Sylvac rabbits, Ercol and G-Plan furniture, the poetry of WH Auden and glorious examples of english eclecticism like A La Ronde, the house built for the Parminter cousins, Jane and Mary, in the 18th century. IN ANY DISCUSSION of Hannah Brown’s recent paintings it’s important to acknowledge her journey from text based work to landscape painting. “When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture” John Constable ![]()
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