Norbert Elias – John Allcock

It all started with Mozart

09/01/202528/05/2022 by John

Or so we are told. I have in mind all this stuff about artists being “professionals”. After posting yesterday’s piece, in which I wrote about art as manual labour, I fell to thinking about a book I read many years ago. This was the biography of Mozart written by Norbert Elias.* Mozart was a figure … Read more

Africa is where it’s at!

09/01/202502/12/2020 by John

I gather that African art is the thing which you should be taking an interest these days. Several big museums and sale-rooms have big exhibitions on this theme at the moment. The Barbican in London, I discover, will be mounting a major show during January, of the work of Toyin Ojih Adutola, from Nigeria (who … Read more