MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Artless anti-life
ANGUS REID is unimpressed by the reactionary undertow in an exhibition of melancholic Perthshire landscapes and photographs
(Left) PloughedFfield South Farr and (right) Black Crow by a Stony Path
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Philip Braham: Closer to Home
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
PHILIP BRAHAM’S new exhibition is prompted, he says, by reflections on suicide.
In it, solitary trees stand out against poisonous skies, while stony paths wander into the centre of the composition and go nowhere.
The whole enterprise recalls the gloomy romanticism of the 19th-century German painter Caspar David Friedrich, whom Braham cites as a major influence.
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