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Landscape from a Dream (1936–38) by Paul Nash. • “I was telling a close friend recently, ‘at my funeral, please play this record…’” Yu Su on her love of Laurie Anderson’s second album, Mister Heartbreak. • “Surrealism is more of an attitude than an art movement,” says Mark Polizzotti, talking about his new book, Why … Continue reading “Weekend links 708”

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Dragon and Tiger—Designs for Lacquer Inro (no date) by Mori Genkosai. • “But where have all those copies of Corridor of Mirrors gone? Sometimes I entertain the thought that an obsessive collector has amassed them in his library lined with looking-glasses, so that nobody else can possess the book but he, and he can see them … Continue reading “Weekend links 707”

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Sea Change (c.1966) by George Wallace Jardine. A paucity of links this week thanks to the Xmas blight which reduced my RSS feed to a wasteland of no activity at all or too many of those lazy listicles devoted to “our top ten things of the year”. There was, however, this from Simon Reynolds: I … Continue reading “Weekend links 706”

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The Seven Lamps (c.1956) by Marion Elizabeth Adnams. • At Spoon & Tamago: All 54 playing cards reinterpreted through still-life photography by Yuni Yoshida. • At Colossal: Photographer Mikko Lagerstedt illuminates the magical solitude of the Nordic winter. • At 3:AM Magazine: Alexander B. Joy explores the 9th minute of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris. • At … Continue reading “Weekend links 705”

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The Yolk (1953) by Gertrude Hermes. • “By 1910, a quarter of the 129 million litres of alcohol consumed annually by Frenchmen was absinthe. Of course, the wine industry was threatened by this growing desire for ‘industrial spirits.’ The Pernod Company was the primary producer, but there were dozens of distilleries offering variations of the … Continue reading “Weekend links 704”