Hannah Höch saw the fractured nature of her society and used photomontage and collage to represent and interrogate it. Becoming part of the male-centric Dada movement in Berlin and influencing fellow modernists like John Heartfield, she went on to develop her own aesthetic. Sean Sheehan Hoch’s statement in […]
Book reviews
Poetry and music in the voices of migrants and refugees
These two languages of art will converge in the “Voces Festival” (Chilean and Latin American Voices in the UK), an event that has taken place every year since 2016 and is a proposal that projects what immigrants and refugees living in a city as multicultural as London live and feel. […]
“Earth is the only truly alien planet”
It was the writer J.G. Ballard who said earth was the truly alien planet and when he wasn’t writing novels and short stories to that effect his non-fiction for various publications rarely contradicted such a point of view. Sean Sheehan The range of his short non-fiction work, from […]
A genetic approach to James Joyce
A genetic approach to a work of literature looks at what was written before the final, published version of the work: notebooks, drafts, correspondence and whatever else might offer clues to how a writer reached the final stage of their work. Sean Sheehan This level of research is […]
Looking at North Korea
Nearly all of our world has been mapped by Google and although that includes North Korea this still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to the most steadfastly secretive country on Earth. Sean Sheehan What we think we know about the place seems to be […]