Casavaria :: Art by Jennifer Lewis :: Photography from Africa

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WRITING FROM CASAVARIA AUTHORS:
From the forthcoming collection of essays, Cave Painting...

RESORT TO BEAUTY
ON THE VALUE OF EXPERIENTIAL BEAUTY IN RESOLVING CONFLICT

Beauty, though mysterious, undefinable, even variable according to subjective experience, is woven into every aspect of life and lived experience. Maybe it is the poet's province alone to take on the burden of working this through, seeing it always, being aware of the most menial, severe and terrible beauties. But the poet's work has resonance because it conjures up a latent awareness of improbable charms, hidden among the tortuous threadwork, the causeways of consciousness. [Full Text]

AVEDON'S PREGNANT SELVES:
RICHARD AVEDON'S PORTRAITS AT THE MET

Avedon's work itself seems to be structured around a fundamental 'island place' of individual being. The subject is starkly portrayed, in silence and asymmetry, against the abstraction of a white background. The whole of an individual's life experience seems visible through the features into which he or she has developed by way of that experience. [Full Text]

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