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Saturday, October 13, 2012

ART NEWS

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  I love this paper. A broadsheet sharply printed on great paper, beautifully designed and packed with interesting stories, what’s not to l...

SILVER SCREEN/ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA

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This is a truly great film. I have watched it three times over the last 10 days and each viewing reveals more subtlety. Set largely in the ...
Sunday, October 07, 2012

CURIOUS FACTS: Military Camouflage & Deception 1

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A mobile tank dummy created by magician and illusionist Jasper Maskelyne. Source: warandgame.com THE GENERALIST has long been fascinated ...

CURIOUS FACTS: Military Camouflage & Deception 2

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‘Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool’ By Edward Wadsworth [National Gallery of Canada] Source: Wikipedia. My original interest in this to...

CUROUS FACTS: Military Camouflage & Deception 3

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  Full-color reproduction in The Sphere magazine (3rd August 1918) of a World War I painting (by an artist named S. Ugo of British soldier...

CURIOUS FACTS: Military Camouflage & Deception 4

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Left: Elaborate camouflage smocks created for snipers in World War 1 [Imperial War Museum] ‘Camouflage for personnel was not intro­duced ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

MUSIC BOOKS: BUDDY BOLDEN, ALEXIS KORNER, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & FRANK ZAPPA

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Books arrive at The Generalist HQ from all quarters and sometimes they arrive in groups. Hence a quarter of music books, all of which ...

SILVER SCREEN: JAPAN/AKIRA KUROSAWA & HIROKAZU KOREEDA

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Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the world’s great film directors, best known for his samurai epics – Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Thron...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

HISTORY OF ART: WILL GOMPERTZ/ROBERT HUGHES

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  Let me begin by saying I am not the average reader of this book. I have been reasonably obsessed by the history of art since I was at scho...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

CULT BOOKS: GAO XINGJIAN & BAO NINH

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This is a still from the amazing video portrait of GAO XINGJIAN by ROBERT WILSON – a pure and perfect work of art – on the amazing DISS...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

MOVIES: THE FILM VS DIGITAL DEBATE

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Due for release in the US this month is what looks to be a fascinating documentary, produced by Keanu Reeves called SIDE BY SIDE The Scie...

MUSIC: ROUGH TRADE ALBUMS OF THE MONTH

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Rough Trade have come up with a neat Album of the Month scheme whereby you get what they consider the best new release with added RT excl...

COMIX: THE SOMEDAY FUNNIES

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   This unusual xtra-large format comic compilation is legendary in the comic book world as it took some 40 years before it was finally...