Claude Levi-Strauss – John Allcock

Symbols as resources

28/05/202526/10/2024 by John

This afternoon I put the finishing touches to a talk I have to give tomorrow, on The Green Man. One thing was rather indeterminate in my mind for a good part of the process of writing. Should I entitle it “Looking for the Green Man”, or “Finding the Green Man”. The difference between the two … Read more

The stomach of the whale

09/01/202502/02/2020 by John

Recently I’ve been enjoying the survey of Italian Art in the Twentieth Century, edited by Emily Braun. In it I came across a remarkable phrase from the Tuscan painter Sandro Chia. He speaks of his studio as “the stomach of the whale”, in which “my paintings and my sculptures appear …. like the undigested residues … Read more