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Anna Akhmatova.
Anna Akhmatova Dread. Bottomless dread… I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace. Poem without a Hero
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Animal Locomotion at GOMA
Helka asks visitors to suggest an everyday movement. I suggest walking, Tai chi walking.
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This was England
If I could write a poem about the English, I would start here on the South coast where my childhood…
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Lion Man, Ice Age Art, British Museum
At around 40,000 years old it is the world’s earliest figurative sculpture
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Ice age art at the British Museum
The exhibition is called Ice Age art arrival of the modern mind but makes little attempt to explore the theme…
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Natural Aesthetics
Part 4 Art as scaffolding, working with the environment
Andy Clark’s ecological approach is clear when he questions where the mind stops and the world begins and argues for…
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Part 3 Language
The key to maximising our cognitive abilities is language. As Stewart and Cohen state, ‘Language and intelligence evolved together, both…
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Part 2 Perception
How to become human (through art) Part 2 Perception The philosopher Merleau-Ponty insisted that creativity begins at level of…
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