Recent Reads

Recent books i have ben devouring are "Giorgio de Chirico, The Endless Journey" by Wieland Schmied (Prestel),a painter and artist aligned with the Surrealist movement, and "Robinson In Space " by Patrick Keiller (Reaktion Books) which is a fascinating journey through the landscape of present-day England and contains over 200 strange yet familiar images from Patrick Keiller's film of the same name. I have seen the film as a rental from Lovefilm.com and is worth seeing if you haven't done so already.

Finished reading the "Dada Not Dada" book by Hans Richter. Noticed that Sandpiper has a nice Taschen book on Man Ray which i will probably buy, as well as one on photographers as avant-garde film makers such as Chris Marker.

Another book from Sandpiper's back room was a short art book on Marc Chagall,which originally would have been £12.99 but only £1. Sometimes they have such great bargains it can be quite jaw-dropping.

Sheleves bulging so will need a spring-clean and thinning out session at some stage.

Another passing of an "angry young" jazzman in today's Guardian obits -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1885974,00.html