When western horizons open up, the space looks desolate, not grandly primordial like Salgado’s Amazon. If the sun shines, it glints from junked liquor bottles, and the music that accompanies Black’s halting progress is made by the squeaking of plastic seats in a Greyhound bus. The palette is stark, inky black and icy white, with flights of baleful Hitchcockian birds blotting out a washed-out or ashen sky. Matt Black’s American Geography: A Reckoning With a Dream (Thames & Hudson) is a tragic atlas, documenting long months on the road in impoverished tracts of the country. In Newton’s perverse tableaux, beauty is an act of violence, an armed assault on nature. Models were stripped nude after the catwalk parade ended, then ordered to reassume their strutting poses: is their bare skin also a disguise? Jerry Hall squeezes a slab of bleeding beef against her face, and another model shows off the Bvlgari jewels on her wrists and fingers while chopping up an uncooked chicken. Newton, who enjoyed reducing his sophisticated female subjects to a primitive state, saw clothes as fetish wear that revealed the body rather than covering it. Ejected from Eden, their latter-day descendants perform eroticised war dances in Helmut Newton’s Legacy (Taschen). Salgado depicts the indigenous Amazonians as noble savages, innocent but startlingly elegant with their feathered headdresses and patterned face paint.
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William Steig (1907-2003) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books. 'Doctor De Soto' is a 1982 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, a 1983 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Picture Books, and a 1983 Newbery Honor Book. How can the kindhearted De Sotos turn him away? But, how can they make sure that the fox doesn't give in to his baser instincts once his tooth is fixed? Those clever De Sotos will find a way. But one day a fox shows up and begs for relief from the tooth that's killing him. Since he's a mouse, Doctor De Soto refuses to treat "dangerous" animals-that is, animals who have a taste for mice. His expertise is so great that his fortunate patients never feel any pain. De Soto, he copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. "Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work, so he had no end of patients." This idiosyncratic and deeply personal memoir is a writer's take on how language shapes us, and how often we take it for granted - until we are in danger of losing it. The Museum of Words is a meditation on writing, reading, first words and last words, picking up thread after thread as it builds on each story to become a much larger narrative. All three of them are writers, with language at the core of their being. She died thirteen months later, in December 2016. Blain knew that, at best, she ‘wouldn’t last more than a couple of years’. At the same time, her mother, Anne Deveson, moves into a nursing home with Alzheimer's weeks earlier, her best friend and mentor had been diagnosed with the same brain tumour. Georgia Blain began to write The Museum of Words shortly after undergoing surgery for removal of an aggressive, malignant tumour from the language centre in her brain. After the shock of a bleak prognosis and a long, gruelling treatment schedule, she immediately turns to writing to rebuild her language and herself. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. She ignored it, and on a bright spring day, as she was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Prior to this, Georgia's only warning had been a niggling sense that her speech was slightly awry. In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her brain. 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Supporters of such measures would call it a win against wokeness, increasingly Batman villain code for anything that attempts to recognize the experience of people who aren’t straight and white. “The Bluest Eye,” published in 1970, is the latest casualty in a wave of American anti-intellectualism hitting particularly hard in Florida. It was a wholesome act of rebellion, practically Pollyanna, but it felt tangible, a sliver of dissent in Florida’s sinking bog of critical thought. The next morning, I drove through Dunedin and Palm Harbor and Tarpon Springs, sliding the copies into community book boxes. |