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Wood and Barthes and the Unreality of Realistic Fiction

James Wood in the current New Yorker (ppg. 71-72):

"The French literary theorist Roland Barthes['s:]...larger argument...was that realistic fiction, like ideology, tries to palm itself off as the most natural and real of literary modes but is in fact the most artificial and unreal. Barthes is ninety-nine percent right.

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But Barthes is one per cent wrong, too; and, like the one per cent that separates us genetically from chimpanzees, Barthes's tiny wrongness is quite large."Daniel A...

The Armory Show 2010

[Joao Pedro Vale, "Of the Monstrous & Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales (I)," (2009):]


[Kristine Roepstorff, "Exercise Within the Frame (Including the Summer of Discontent)" (from the series, It's Not the Eye of the Needle That Changed, 2007):].


[William Daniels, "Vase of Flowers with Pocket Watch (1)," (2005):]


[Leonardo Drew, "Number 33.a" (rust, shoes, 1999).


[Eva Lundsager, "Hermit Style" (2006)]



[Pablo Bronstein, "Two Architectural Studies in the Style of Jean Jacques Lequeu" (2005).:]


[Polly...

[Polly Morgan, "Still Birth (Blue)," (2009).][Martin Jaco...

[Polly Morgan, "Still Birth (Blue)," (2009).:]


[Martin Jacobson, drawing (2009).:]



[Andrew Sendor, "Alejandro Celestino, Artist Unknown, 2013, human beings & mixed media, dimensions variable, Soliloquoy, Ana Libitina, 2012, video projection, 107 minutes (detail)" (2009).:]


[Kristof Kintera, "I see, I see, I see," (2009) a talking, animatronic raven-man sitting on a branch above the viewer's head.:]



[Jorma Puranen,"Shadows, Reflections and All That Sort of Thing, #42" (2008).:]

Yesterday we delved and d...

[Jorma Puranen,"Shadows, Reflections and All That Sort of...

[Jorma Puranen,"Shadows, Reflections and All That Sort of Thing, #42" (2008).:]



Puranen on his approach: " ' While photographing painted portraits I thought that what I was doing was in fact like knocking on the frame of a painting and asking "Is anyone there?" or saying "Wake up, I know you're there.' " For more, see Galerie Anhava's site hereDaniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores...

Thinking of Alice

One of Rackham's illustrations... looking forward to seeing the Burton version on screen soon...Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos, smilax root, goat stew, and one very fierce golden cat. (www.danielarabuzzi.com). Daniel blogs at Lobster & Canary about speculative fiction...

The river's story

Johan Sevenbom, c. 1765, drawing of a river god.

Begs for a story or a poem about this riparian old-father.

Bring out your quill, sings the canary!Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos, smilax root, goat stew, and one very fierce golden cat. (www.danielarabuzzi.com). Daniel blogs at ...

Left brain, right brain: Data are gorgeous

AH, the lobster and the canary find nourishment for their oh-so-different brains....

David McCandless offers up data visualizations that qualify as art... in his new book Information is Beautiful, and his blog of the same name...click here.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009."The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos...

Sunday Morning: Coffee, Blogs, and Remembering Lucille Clifton

The Sunday review, with milk-lashed coffee.

In the air and in my ear: Maria Schneider Orchestra, then Hiromi Uehara... followed by Macy Gray, and now the North Mississippi Allstars...

David Brin worries that the search for extraterrestial life might be the equivalent of yelling "yoo hoo" in a dark forest, thereby drawing in the predators... click here for more.

Mark Anthony Neal interviews Sofia Quintero (aka Black Artemis, co-founder of Chica Luna Productions)-- click here.

Jai Arjun Singh prov...

N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Nora K. Jemisin : Orbit published her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, this past week.

The launch party Thursday evening in Soho, NYC was wonderful. Despite slush, snow and sleet, the room was packed. Spotted: Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Matt Kressel, Tempest Bradford, Delia Sherman, Ellen Datlow.

Congratulations Nora! The lobster and the canary hope to interview Nora soon.Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine...

Over the Moon with Tamayo

[Rufino Tamayo, "Moon and Sun":]
Good night, Moon!Daniel A. Rabuzzi is author of the fantasy novel "The Choir Boats," available from ChiZine Publications in September 2009.
"The Choir Boats" explores issues of race, gender, sin, and salvation, and includes a mysterious letter, knuckledogs, carkodrillos, smilax root,
goat stew, and one very fierce golden cat.

(www.danielarabuzzi.com). Daniel blogs at Lobster & Canary about speculative fiction, poetry, history and the arts.