Hiroshi Teshigahara

- The Face of Another

Sylvia Ballhause.

[...] The truth is that Amis was a product of his time and, to use a 21st-century term, his privilege. His fearlessness is, perhaps, irreplicable in our hyper-scrutinised era. The media landscape has changed too. There aren’t too many places that will publish 5,000-word essays on Nabokov. Now most of us write with one eye on how our words may be used against us by our enemies. It’s left a lot of contemporary authors feeling cramped, fearful, guarded. Even writers as forthright in their opinions as Cusk or the critic Lauren Oyler write in prose as well defended as Stalingrad.

Artist

“Something is a work of art when it has filled its role as therapy for the artist. I don't care about the audience. I'm not working for the audience. The audience is welcome to take what they can.”