The Art of Leaving by Anna Stothard is out in March (Alma Books, £7.99).
It is hard to leave the subject of Minimalism without mention of Count Basie, master of the art of leaving out.
In the words of Lin Yutang, "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone".
In days like these, there's no direction left to go except analogue and old skool, and the forgotten art of leaving 'em wanting more.
This is credible: despite his steroid use Johnson passed 19 successive drug tests between 1986 and 1988, by mastering the art of leaving enough time between his last dose and his next race for all trace of it to leave his system.
But Ian Bell has gone some way to re-establishing himself, (although talk of a move back to No3 is fanciful) and Cook has learned a bit more about the art of leaving the ball as an opener.
Now, she?s resisted the temptation to skip merrily around the lab to tell us about the art of leaving your lab -- and your colleagues -- behind.
There's also the American construction of Middle Eastern destruction: as one pan shot zooms out of a warzone, what emerges is the art of leaving catastrophes behind without responsibility.
Tinder users, practiced in the art of swiping left to throw away and right to like, will have to be mindful of the new up/down structure.
And yet, we can still ascertain that, more often than not, by the 1960s, the art that stands oppositionally against the powers that would deprive populations of individual civil liberties is designated to be the art of the Left -- despite that some of that art, like the ideologies they disseminate, is later regarded to lead to dead ends or more social controls.
