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The book is stunning visually but I cannot understand how the author seemingly forcefully removed the queer subtext from several Peake’s characters AND went so far as to say (completely unsupported by documentary proof) that Peake would have voted for the Tories had he been interested in politics where we have evidence of close collaborations with artists affiliated with the British Left
— Mar 18, 2026 02:01PM
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Side note in case this book ever gets reprinted (I bought a copy secondhand): I think it being the biography of an author/painter/poet it could (read: should) very well do without the picture his father (an English missionary in China during the first half of the xx century) took of a severed head of a completely unrelated Chinese man🫶.
— Mar 15, 2026 11:53AM
