February 2012
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Jackson Pollock: Unpublished Photos →
LIFE releases eleven previously unpublished photos of artist Jackson Pollock. In 1949 the magazine asked, “Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” A brief biography and overview of Pollock’s work can be found at the Artchive.
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Conrad
Reading Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo, this passage knocks me on my backside:
Mrs. Gould knew the history of the San Tomé mine. Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves, its yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones. Whole tribes of Indians had perished in the exploitation; and then the mine was abandoned, since with this primitive method it had...