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The artist Nichol Wheatley’s photo of artist & author Alasdair Gray playing chess during the creation of the #mural in Glasgow’s Hillhead subway station. The circular chess board was developed by Alasdair & his son Andrew.
https://nicholwheatley.com/portfolio/alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #art #mural #visualart #chess #WorldChessDay
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The artist Nichol Wheatley’s photo of artist & author Alasdair Gray playing chess during the creation of the #mural in Glasgow’s Hillhead subway station. The circular chess board was developed by Alasdair & his son Andrew.
https://nicholwheatley.com/portfolio/alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #art #mural #visualart #chess #WorldChessDay
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The artist Nichol Wheatley’s photo of artist & author Alasdair Gray playing chess during the creation of the #mural in Glasgow’s Hillhead subway station. The circular chess board was developed by Alasdair & his son Andrew.
https://nicholwheatley.com/portfolio/alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #art #mural #visualart #chess #WorldChessDay
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The artist Nichol Wheatley’s photo of artist & author Alasdair Gray playing chess during the creation of the #mural in Glasgow’s Hillhead subway station. The circular chess board was developed by Alasdair & his son Andrew.
https://nicholwheatley.com/portfolio/alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #art #mural #visualart #chess #WorldChessDay
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20 July is World Chess Day! ♟️
Episode 2 of the Alasdair Gray Archive’s UNLIKELY OBJECTS MOSTLY looks at Alasdair Gray’s chessboard & the part #chess played in his practice, uncovering its role in the making of his Hillhead Subway mural & the novel POOR THINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #art #mural #visualart #chess #WorldChessDay
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20 July is World Chess Day! ♟️
Episode 2 of the Alasdair Gray Archive’s UNLIKELY OBJECTS MOSTLY looks at Alasdair Gray’s chessboard & the part #chess played in his practice, uncovering its role in the making of his Hillhead Subway mural & the novel POOR THINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #art #mural #visualart #chess #WorldChessDay
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20 July is World Chess Day! ♟️
Episode 2 of the Alasdair Gray Archive’s UNLIKELY OBJECTS MOSTLY looks at Alasdair Gray’s chessboard & the part #chess played in his practice, uncovering its role in the making of his Hillhead Subway mural & the novel POOR THINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #art #mural #visualart #chess #WorldChessDay
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20 July is World Chess Day! ♟️
Episode 2 of the Alasdair Gray Archive’s UNLIKELY OBJECTS MOSTLY looks at Alasdair Gray’s chessboard & the part #chess played in his practice, uncovering its role in the making of his Hillhead Subway mural & the novel POOR THINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #art #mural #visualart #chess #WorldChessDay
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C’est curieux de me rendre compte que c’est encore un artiste visuel se tournant vers la prose littéraire que je viens de découvrir. Les deux anglophones #AlanMoore et #AlasdairGray étaient dans la même voie, mais #Abeille devenait écrivain malgré lui : son désir de faire de la peinture était brutalement terminé lorsqu’il apprît qu’il était daltonien, « basculé, de la manière la plus inattendue, dans l’écriture romanesque » comme il disait dans un entretien. Il paraît qu’il n’a jamais dessiné des illustrations de ses propres livres, alors que #Gray l’a toujours fait lui-même et #Moore au moins pour la couverture de son pavé northamptonien « Jerusalem ». 2/3
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C’est curieux de me rendre compte que c’est encore un artiste visuel se tournant vers la prose littéraire que je viens de découvrir. Les deux anglophones #AlanMoore et #AlasdairGray étaient dans la même voie, mais #Abeille devenait écrivain malgré lui : son désir de faire de la peinture était brutalement terminé lorsqu’il apprît qu’il était daltonien, « basculé, de la manière la plus inattendue, dans l’écriture romanesque » comme il disait dans un entretien. Il paraît qu’il n’a jamais dessiné des illustrations de ses propres livres, alors que #Gray l’a toujours fait lui-même et #Moore au moins pour la couverture de son pavé northamptonien « Jerusalem ». 2/3
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#vendredilecture juste avant d’entamer le « Cycle des Contrées » de #JacquesAbeille que je n’ai pas encore sous la main dans son intégralité – les tomes grand format de chez Le Tripode s’épuisent en fur et à mesure de leur passage en livres de poche… Allons voir chez les bouquinistes en ligne pour ce qu’il me reste à trouver de la série originale. En attendant je commence avec « Les jardins statuaires », le premier titre du cycle. Comme le dit la quatrième de couverture, c’est plutôt hors genre littéraire, post-surréaliste-slipstream-weird, comme le « Gormenghast » de #MervynPeake ou les œuvres de #JulienGracq, #GeorgKlein, #AlasdairGray que j’aime tant. 1/3
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#vendredilecture juste avant d’entamer le « Cycle des Contrées » de #JacquesAbeille que je n’ai pas encore sous la main dans son intégralité – les tomes grand format de chez Le Tripode s’épuisent en fur et à mesure de leur passage en livres de poche… Allons voir chez les bouquinistes en ligne pour ce qu’il me reste à trouver de la série originale. En attendant je commence avec « Les jardins statuaires », le premier titre du cycle. Comme le dit la quatrième de couverture, c’est plutôt hors genre littéraire, post-surréaliste-slipstream-weird, comme le « Gormenghast » de #MervynPeake ou les œuvres de #JulienGracq, #GeorgKlein, #AlasdairGray que j’aime tant. 1/3
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@quadrivial It is, isn't it. You're welcome. And just in case you haven't already, I recommend reading #AlasdairGray's"Lanark" - you'll love that one, too, it's got a lot in common with Jerusalem: two visual artists taking decades to write their thinly-veiled semi-autobiographical novels about journeys to hell and, well, back? What's not to like.
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@quadrivial It is, isn't it. You're welcome. And just in case you haven't already, I recommend reading #AlasdairGray's"Lanark" - you'll love that one, too, it's got a lot in common with Jerusalem: two visual artists taking decades to write their thinly-veiled semi-autobiographical novels about journeys to hell and, well, back? What's not to like.
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@quadrivial It is, isn't it. You're welcome. And just in case you haven't already, I recommend reading #AlasdairGray's"Lanark" - you'll love that one, too, it's got a lot in common with Jerusalem: two visual artists taking decades to write their thinly-veiled semi-autobiographical novels about journeys to hell and, well, back? What's not to like.
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@quadrivial It is, isn't it. You're welcome. And just in case you haven't already, I recommend reading #AlasdairGray's"Lanark" - you'll love that one, too, it's got a lot in common with Jerusalem: two visual artists taking decades to write their thinly-veiled semi-autobiographical novels about journeys to hell and, well, back? What's not to like.
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Coming May 2026:
The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray & the Arts
Ed. Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi, & Kirsten StirlingInterrogating Alasdair Gray’s literary & visual artistic practice & exploring relationships between these forms
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-alasdair-gray-and-the-arts.html
#Scottish #literature #art #visualart #AlasdairGray #PoorThings
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Coming May 2026:
The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray & the Arts
Ed. Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi, & Kirsten StirlingInterrogating Alasdair Gray’s literary & visual artistic practice & exploring relationships between these forms
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-alasdair-gray-and-the-arts.html
#Scottish #literature #art #visualart #AlasdairGray #PoorThings
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Coming May 2026:
The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray & the Arts
Ed. Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi, & Kirsten StirlingInterrogating Alasdair Gray’s literary & visual artistic practice & exploring relationships between these forms
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-alasdair-gray-and-the-arts.html
#Scottish #literature #art #visualart #AlasdairGray #PoorThings
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Coming May 2026:
The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray & the Arts
Ed. Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi, & Kirsten StirlingInterrogating Alasdair Gray’s literary & visual artistic practice & exploring relationships between these forms
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-alasdair-gray-and-the-arts.html
#Scottish #literature #art #visualart #AlasdairGray #PoorThings
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It's funny reading Poor Things after seeing the film. I find myself seeing Emma Stone as Bella, but thus far the other characters all seem too Scottish to be their cinematic counterparts.
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It's funny reading Poor Things after seeing the film. I find myself seeing Emma Stone as Bella, but thus far the other characters all seem too Scottish to be their cinematic counterparts.
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It's funny reading Poor Things after seeing the film. I find myself seeing Emma Stone as Bella, but thus far the other characters all seem too Scottish to be their cinematic counterparts.
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It's funny reading Poor Things after seeing the film. I find myself seeing Emma Stone as Bella, but thus far the other characters all seem too Scottish to be their cinematic counterparts.
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BBC News: Alasdair Gray murals secure listed status for restaurant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqkyq83q21o -
BBC News: Alasdair Gray murals secure listed status for restaurant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqkyq83q21o -
BBC News: Alasdair Gray murals secure listed status for restaurant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqkyq83q21o -
BBC News: Alasdair Gray murals secure listed status for restaurant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqkyq83q21o -
Responding to Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
15 April, University of Glasgow – free, ticketedRachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass, presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive. Rachelle Atalla will read from her newly commissioned short story, “Waste Management”, which delves into Glasgow’s hidden subterranean layers, drawing inspiration from LANARK & the city’s sanitation infrastructure
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-to-alasdair-grays-lanark-tickets-1984371725248
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Responding to Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
15 April, University of Glasgow – free, ticketedRachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass, presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive. Rachelle Atalla will read from her newly commissioned short story, “Waste Management”, which delves into Glasgow’s hidden subterranean layers, drawing inspiration from LANARK & the city’s sanitation infrastructure
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-to-alasdair-grays-lanark-tickets-1984371725248
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Responding to Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
15 April, University of Glasgow – free, ticketedRachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass, presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive. Rachelle Atalla will read from her newly commissioned short story, “Waste Management”, which delves into Glasgow’s hidden subterranean layers, drawing inspiration from LANARK & the city’s sanitation infrastructure
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-to-alasdair-grays-lanark-tickets-1984371725248
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Responding to Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
15 April, University of Glasgow – free, ticketedRachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass, presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive. Rachelle Atalla will read from her newly commissioned short story, “Waste Management”, which delves into Glasgow’s hidden subterranean layers, drawing inspiration from LANARK & the city’s sanitation infrastructure
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-to-alasdair-grays-lanark-tickets-1984371725248
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Bookclub: Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
Currently available on BBC Sounds.
Recorded at the at the 2026 Pitlochry Winter Words Festival, this special episode of Bookclub celebrates Alasdair Gray’s 1981 masterpiece, LANARK, with the actor Alan Cumming, who is the voice of the new audiobook recently released by @canongatebookshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx
#Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming
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Bookclub: Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
Currently available on BBC Sounds.
Recorded at the at the 2026 Pitlochry Winter Words Festival, this special episode of Bookclub celebrates Alasdair Gray’s 1981 masterpiece, LANARK, with the actor Alan Cumming, who is the voice of the new audiobook recently released by @canongatebookshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx
#Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming
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Bookclub: Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
Currently available on BBC Sounds.
Recorded at the at the 2026 Pitlochry Winter Words Festival, this special episode of Bookclub celebrates Alasdair Gray’s 1981 masterpiece, LANARK, with the actor Alan Cumming, who is the voice of the new audiobook recently released by @canongatebookshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx
#Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming
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Bookclub: Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
Currently available on BBC Sounds.
Recorded at the at the 2026 Pitlochry Winter Words Festival, this special episode of Bookclub celebrates Alasdair Gray’s 1981 masterpiece, LANARK, with the actor Alan Cumming, who is the voice of the new audiobook recently released by @canongatebookshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s2yx
#Scottish #literature #Lanark #novel #AlasdairGray #AlanCumming
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“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”
—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”
https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy
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“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”
—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”
https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy
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“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”
—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”
https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy
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“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”
—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”
https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #fantasy
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“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”
—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess
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“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”
—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess
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“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”
—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess
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“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”
—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #AnthonyBurgess
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“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”
—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray
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“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”
—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray
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“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”
—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray
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“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”
—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray
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Envoi
Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR
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Envoi
Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR
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Envoi
Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR
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Envoi
Prof Alan Riach, University of Glasgow – who appears, briefly & fictionally, in Alasdair Gray’s 2007 novel OLD MEN IN LOVE (although not, I should add, as an old man in love) – discusses LANARK at our 2022 Schools Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCGw6e_OSI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaVgzFyI3JdP1V-XAopXEgR
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“Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”
—David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art
8/8
https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration
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“Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”
—David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art
8/8
https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration
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“Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”
—David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art
8/8
https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration
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“Taken together, the four prints underscore the oft-disputed unity of LANARK, as well as the sheer will of Gray’s effort to portray the individual’s capabilities for art & love against the backdrop of the modern industrialized state”
—David Auerbach on Alasdair Gray’s art
8/8
https://www.waggish.org/2020/alasdair-grays-lanark-the-four-frontispieces/
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #visualart #print #printmaking #illustration
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(although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)
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(although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)
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(although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)
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(although we’re still waiting for “The Provision Merchant as Agent of Evil in Scottish Literature from Galt to Gunn” tbh – though there’s no particular rush)
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