The Great Leap Sideways

The Listening Eye: the work of Vanessa Winship

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:56:37 +0000

An essay on, and a large gallery of recent work by photographer Vanessa Winship. Continue reading →

The Field of Memory: Irina Rozovsky’s One to Nothing

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:56:28 +0000

An essay on Irina Rozovsky's book of photographs, One to Nothing. Continue reading →

From Waterlily Fire by Muriel Rukeyser

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:52:12 +0000

“Whatever can come to a city can come to this city. Under the tall compulsion of the past I see the city change like a man changing I love this man with my lifelong body of love… Continue reading →

Solnit on Landscape

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:51:55 +0000

“Every love has its landscape. Thus place, which is always spoken of as though it only counts when you’re present, possesses you in its absence, takes on another life as a sense of place, a summoning in the imagination with… Continue reading →

One off: Vanessa Winship.

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:51:38 +0000

Untitled portrait, by Vanessa Winship, from Georgia work-in-progress.

From Farewell, by Agha Shahid Ali

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:51:12 +0000

My memory is again in the way of your history. Army convoys all night like desert caravans: In the smoking oil of dimmed headlights, time dissolved — all winter — its crushed fennel. We can’t ask them: Are you done… Continue reading →

Berger on poetry

wolukauwanambwa — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:50:49 +0000

“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known. Poems, regardless of any outcome,… Continue reading →

Berger on Art

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:46:20 +0000

“Art is neither value-free nor an independent source of values; to one extent or another, it always reflects the needs, politics, intellectual and aesthetic priorities, and tastes of the artist, the institutions that support and disseminate his or her work,… Continue reading →

Piper on Political Art

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:45:18 +0000

“Motivated by self-censorship, and by the strategic understanding that making explicitly political art lessens the chances and the magnitude of professional success, this kind of implicitly political art is an expression of imprisonment within the bounds of political conflict, rather… Continue reading →

One off: Shelby Lee Adams.

thegreatleapsideways — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:45:06 +0000

“Sloans on the Porch, Sloan’s Fork, 1988″ © Shelby Lee Adams. “These Appalachian families are down and out, but stubbornly proud —… Continue reading →