Posts Tagged ‘movies’
Séraphine, Poor Mad Artist
The myths that underlie what Hans Abbing calls "the exceptional economy of the arts" are periodically reinforced by reality and when they are it is not unlikely that those rule-proving exceptions will be noticed, even celebrated, as if to say to unbelievers, "See, I told you so."Thus we have such ideas as: that art is situated so dangerously close [...]
Jack’s Publishing – how publishing is depicted in movies
Publishers are represented in movies as much as anyone I suppose. In The Shoe Fairy (2006) directed by Robin Lee, the protagonist, a girl named Dodo, works for Jack, a publisher of children’s and pop-up books, who is always folding origami. Dodo does all the menial jobs in the office from cleaning toilets to picking up drawings from the [...]
