shattered heads and tribal totems

The great Scottish-Italian sculptor and graphic artist Eduardo Paolozzi offers an uncompromising vision of the contemporary West and its violent and superficial culture Now that the Irishman Francis Bacon is dead, the Scottish-Italian Eduardo Paolozzi, his friend and (in part) disciple, must, in his eighties, be the most imposing living artist from the British Isles.…

edinburgh festival

In James Robertson’s brilliant novel Joseph Knight (2003), three Edinburgh lawyers, one fine afternoon in the late summer of 1776, stroll through the park by Holyrood Palace and ascend thence to the summit of Arthur’s Seat, the huge hill which dominates eastward views from the city. ‘Below them the city was spread out in the…