Judith Rugg's Blog

Reflections on art, writing, teaching and research in fine art and creative practice

Darkness Invisible Part 1

Darkness Invisible Part 1

Teju Cole's recent book, Black Paper (University of Chicago Press, 2021) proposes ways in which to think critically about 'blackness and it's connotations.'
Coloured Variations

Coloured Variations

David Batchelor draws on an apparently unending list of thinkers in his introduction to On Colour (2008) including Julia Kristeva (‘colour is the shattering of unity’), Josef Albers...
More on the Street

More on the Street

Street Art World by Alison Young (Professor of Criminology at the University of Melbourne and author of Street Art, Public City and Street / Studio), was recently published by Reaktion ...
Evolving Mobilities

Evolving Mobilities

The concept of mobilities has been an issue which has been discussed for some time in the pages of interdisciplinary journals such as Environment and Planning, a series of...
Hypercathections

Hypercathections

In James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man (Vintage, 2003), the protagonist, a professor of gender studies sinks into paranoia via a series of vividly drawn spatial scenarios.....
On Existentialism

On Existentialism

If one can drag oneself away from the Shakespearean dramas currently being enacted in real life (I am writing this in London), it is useful to remember that...