Friday, 21 June 2019

hedging and ditching


"He used to do his hedging and ditching at Beckley at night, by torch and candlelight, because he believed daylight should be reserved for making art – he was a painter who didn’t really sell."


  In "Cosmopolis and Depopulation" (a crucial chapter in the second volume of his 1922 magnum opus, The Decline of the West ), Os...