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 ★ café library reader favorites1. Frank Lloyd Wright & Broadacre City (2007)
Excerpt from Mark Pimlott’s book, Without and within: Essays on territory and the interior (Episode Publishers: Rotterdam). Mark Pimlott. Without and within book cover, (2007). Episode Publishers:...
2. Age of Consent (1969) film review
A review by John A. Walker (2009), the author of Art & Artists on screen.
Age of Consent (Columbia Pictures, 1969), a romantic comedy and drama, was shot in Australia during 1968 and...
3. Turner Prize 1997: Generating art debate
When the shortlist was announced in June 1997, some critics asserted that the all female line up was an act of overt political correctness in response to the 1996 all-male shortlist, which...
4. New York Stories: Life Lessons film review
A review by John A. Walker, the author of Art & Artists on screen.
Life Lessons is a short film directed by Martin Scorsese with a script by Richard Price which appears as one of a trio...
5. Museum of Installation: Interview with Nico de Oliveira & Nicola Oxley...
No research on installation art is complete without a conversation with Nico de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley. As founding directors of London’s Museum of Installation (MoI, 1990–2005), an influential...
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Anthony Quinn and John Decker in Art & Celebrity (2003)
Excerpt from John A. Walker’s now-classic book.
Anthony Quinn (1915-2001), the movie star with Irish and Mexican blood who grew up in poverty as an immigrant to Los Angeles and who had tremendous...
Tony Fretton (1990)
In his Passagenwerk (Arcade Project), Walter Benjamin speculated on the complex of History and subjugation being 'blasted apart' by an awakening to the constituents of that History. This would be...
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen: The rake’s progress
Featuring the Inc Bar in Greenwich, England. Design by Llewelyn-Bowen & Associates. View of the dining area and bar in the background.
View towards the main bar.
View of Larry's Bar at the...
Thai women artists: Doin’ it for themselves (1997)
Changing attitudes at home and a number of successful national and international exhibitions have produced important changes for women artists in Thailand. Pinaree Sanpitak - Somporn Radboon - 1...
Wendy Steiner’s The scandal of pleasure: Art in an age of fundamentalism...
University of Chicago Press, 251 pp, 27 illus.
Wendy Steiner is an American Professor of English but she is equally at home writing about films and photographs as she is about literature. Her...
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Vincent van Gogh films: Of cypresses and sunflowers (1990)
A review by John A. Walker, the author of Art & Artists on screen, discussing Vincent & Theo (1990), Lust for life (1956), and more.
Those who know and admire the art of Vincent Van Gogh...
Barbara Kruger in context (2001)
As her work comes to the South London Gallery, John A. Walker surveys the 30-year career of one of America's leading artists.
Power/Pleasure/Desire/Disgust is the title of a multimedia...
Arts TV in the 1990s: The return of Pop Posh?
An article by John A. Walker, the author of Art & Artists on screen.
In recent months, issues concerning posh and popular culture, the quality of art, and the cultural standards evident in...
David Salle's exemplary perversity (1983)
As a matter of fact, artifice was considered by Des Esseintes to be the distinctive mark of human genius. Nature, he used to say, has had her day.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans, À Rebours (1884).
David...
John Stezaker: Moonstruck (1989)
Review of exhibition at the Salama-Caro Gallery in London (5-28 April 1989).
In his first major show in London for several years John Stezaker exhibited a series of black/white images...
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