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โSculpture to me is primitive, religious, passionate and magicalโalways affirmative.โ So wrote Barbara Hepworth (1903โ75), perhaps the finest female sculptor the world has ever seen. There are certain areas in the arts where women feel naturally at home. Some where they take over and feminize. In fiction and on the…
Yes, but which one? The Spanish, the Persian or the Turkish? When it comes to carpets there is plenty of choice and although I spent a week at it, I am not too sure which one it was. Carpet making has a long tradition in Turkey. It harks back to…
W.D. Howells, Venetian Life, first published in 1866, and Polly Coles, The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice, Robert Hale, 2013. A recent review of Polly Colesโ The Politics of Washing claimed that it was the most perceptive book on Venice since W.D. Howellsโ Venetian Life. In a field…