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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Really lovely clarity of writing. Runs all kinds of references and concepts in to each other - per travelogue, part autobiography, part cultural dissection of the idea of Limbo and suspended spaces/time. Probably the only book I’ve read that references Thoreau, Winnicott and Douglas Adams with equal weight, which is glorious tbh. ( ) no reviews | add a review
In a world that demands faith in progress and growth,Limbo is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded and those in the dark. Fusing memoir with a meditation on creative block and a cultural history of limbo, Dan Fox considers the role that fallow periods and states of inbetween play in art and life.Limbo is an essay about getting by when you can't get along, employing a cast of artists, ghosts and sailors - including the author's older brother who, in 1985, left England for good to sail the world - to reflect on the creative, emotional and political consequences of being stuck, and its opposites. From the Headington Shark to radical behavioural experiments, from life aboard a container ship to Sun Ra's cosmology,Limbo argues that there can be no growth without stagnancy, no movement without inactivity, and no progress without refusal. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)701.15The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts Philosophy and theory of fine and decorative arts Appreciative aspects Psychological principlesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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