Zen in the Art of Archery
Eugen Herrigel’s beautiful insight into Zen is also problematic. Does it still have the power to teach?
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Review of “All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life” at Tate Britain
There is nothing commemorative about this remarkably diverse exhibition, which attempts to trace the activities of a number of London-based... View Article
Andreas Gursky
Gursky likes to print his images on very large scale paper. Think Monet’s water lily series at the Orangerie, Paris. So as you approach a work it fills your horizontal field of vision. As well as enveloping you, the technique also has the effect of encouraging you to forget about edges of the picture, to disregard what lies beyond, and to overlook the very deliberate cropping that Gursky undertakes.