Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
Choose a theme from the listing on the left to narrow your search, or view all readings.
Modern art today is a cow cut in half with a chainsaw, floating in a glass tank... But what does it all mean? What is Modern Art? Why do we like/hate it? Can anybody do it? Is it always modern? Who started it?
Matthew Collings, Phoenix, 6 July 2000
A study of how the Paris Conservatoire functioned to serve the propagandistic needs of the state
Colin Lawson, (eds) Maire F Cross and David Williams, Palgrave, 1999
The story of how a small group of photographers - Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour - established and nurtured a co-operative photographic agency that has survived against all the odds to become the most famous in the world.
Russell Miller, Pimlico, 4 February 1999
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Wordsworth, 19 September 1998
We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.
Roland Barthes, Fontana, 13 September 1993
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Lynne Featherstone MP, Liberal Democrats
