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Monthly Archives: December 2012
The Uses of Ambiguity
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, meaning is too. After seeing Francis Bacon’s paintings at the Art Gallery of NSW (beautiful or ugly? human or animal? wrestling or fucking?), I found an incisive review of an essay … Continue reading
Posted in use & abuse of language, visual artists
Tagged ambiguity, Arundhati Roy, Ben Davis, Emily Brontë, Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon: five decades, Gilles Deleuze, literary fiction, Patrick White, The English Patient, The God of Small Things, The Logic of Sensation, The Sound and the Fury, The Unconsoled, Voss, William Faulkner, Wuthering Heights
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