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Art

Pennies – A Linguistic Analysis of a Statement by Louis Althusser by David Brian Howard

published by Retort Magazine, on August 18th, 2010

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Artists Statement

Pennies is a short piece of experimental writing which is a form of montage allegorical sketch that draws upon the research of Walter Benjamin on the allegorical poetics of Charles Baudelaire.  I have juxtaposed the sacred and the profane in a manner . . . → Read More: Pennies – A Linguistic Analysis of a Statement by Louis Althusser by David Brian Howard

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Poetry

Jim Nisbet translates LES FLEURS DU MAL by Baudelaire P2

published by Retort Magazine, on August 12th, 2010

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LES FLEURS DU MAL by Charles Baudelaire translated by Jim Nisbet

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Photography by Leticia Fernández

published by Retort Magazine, on August 11th, 2010

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Rex Fairburn – Poet, Polemicist and Art Critic by K R Bolton

published by Retort Magazine, on August 11th, 2010

Rex Fairburn
New Zealand Poet, Polemicist and Art Critic

by K R Bolton

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rexfairburnA R D (Rex) Fairburn was a central figure in the Golden Age of New Zealand culture. This was the period between the world wars, when an incipient nativist literary and artistic movement started to emerge that was part of the European cultural stream, but was inspired by the New Zealand landscape and the New Zealand people, and was overcoming colonial mimicking.

Fairburn was born in 1904 in modest though middle class circumstances. He was proud of being a fourth generation New Zealander related to the missionary Colenso.

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