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Even in a new, semi-biographical book and film, the legendary Soho photographer is a wraithlike presence
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Even in a new, semi-biographical book and film, the legendary Soho photographer is a wraithlike presence
‘Art is a process, not a product. A book is only the ending of a process perhaps, for the time being, a process which will continue through another work.’
Bernard Kops, who has died aged 97, was an East End-born playwright, poet and novelist whose first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1957), enjoyed worldwide success and saw him rated alongside Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker, John Osborne and Shelagh Delaney as part of the late 1950s British new wave. Yet while he typically selected “realistic” domestic settings for his fiction, poetry, and plays, he rarely touched on political unrest or class prejudice; instead he often incorporated surrealistic
Published to mark the artist’s 60-year retrospective at New Delhi’s National Gallery of Modern Art, this book shows that while Jatin Das derives inspiration from across borders, his soul remains always rooted as an Odishan-Indian
Christmas Echoes: A Melodic Blend of Nostalgia and Tradition, Harmonized with Shane MacGowan's 'Fairytale of New York.