Ink is Ricker Winsor’s latest book of poetry and drawings with approximately 150 drawings with poems, captions and comments and two essays: “Drawings and Wabi-sabi” and “What I Know About Art.” Winsor says, “Using reed pens and brushes, I made the effort over all those years to get out into the world and make my … Read more
I have posted announcements of the upcoming publication of my book What the Heck is a Frame-Pedestal Aesthetic? on this blog and on my personal writing blog and on Facebook. The book is an updated version of my graduate thesis written in 1970. I had to manually type the 50-something pages and then add a … Read more
It was 1970. Abstract-Expressionism had dominated American and world art for almost three decades. For thousands of years before that, art had been pictures on walls and sculptures on pedestals meant to be admired for their beauty. Revolutionary new approaches to art during the 1960s changed all that. Alec Clayton’s graduate thesis with the academic … Read more