The Anxiety of Influence

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“The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one’s way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.” Gustav Mahler

Sorry for not being in touch

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Old Letterbox at Erddig Estate, nr. Wrexham, Wales, n.d.

Dear Readers, I hope you are well.

Apologies for the lack of manual dexterity on my blog of late I have been extremely unwell, so unwell in fact I couldn’t type or at least I was trying but inventing a completely new and unintelligible language. For some self encouragement this blog is about what I will be blogging about. Things have occurred that can be written about, in spite of some of these things happening many months ago, so I decided I will write about them anyway if memory provides the ability to do so. These include a ‘medieval propaganda’ day relating to St.George at St. John the Baptist Church, Fleet Street, Coventry, a Hidden Heritage Conference in Dorset (an oxymoron I know), a visit to Burton Dassett Hills, Warwickshire, an outstanding Arts & Crafts House, Blackwell, south of Bowness, Windermere and Brantwood, Coniston Water, home of John Ruskin in the latter years of his life.

Yours

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Coronia © Denise Startin

“VI A few examples: A sailor of antiquity in his boat, enjoying himself and appreciating the comfortable creations. Ancient art represents the subject accordingly. And now: the experiences of modern man, walking across the deck of a steamer: 1. his own movement, 2. the movement of the ship which could be in the opposite direction, 3. the direction and speed of the current, 4. the rotation of the earth, 5. Its orbit, and 6. The orbits of the stars and the satellites around it.

The result: an organization of movements within the cosmos centred on the man on the steamer.”

Extract from Paul Klee “Creative Credo 1920” quoted in Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, Herschel Browning Chip, Peter Howard Selz, pp.186