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Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
Bowie Book Club Podcast
English - April 26, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutes - 69 MB - ★★★★ - 28 ratingsBooks Arts Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we took a little wander through
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall and read about a lot of saints with swords (sometimes stuck in their heads)
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Stuff We Talked About
James Hall's obituary in the Guardian
Article about the first English dictionaries
Mountweazel!
The random paintings we attempted to decipher.
Our episode about David Bomberg.
We didn't talk about it, but here's Nick Cave's handwritten dictionary h/t to
Austin Kleon's excellent recent blog post on dictionaries
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Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner
Bleak House by Charlie Dickens (as always)
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
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