"This series of work is one thread of a bigger idea looking at where the genres and themes of art history have ended up representing themselves in the landscape of commercial image production," he says.
Katie Roiphe began writing The Violet Hour, her sixth book, when she was 12 years old – or at least, that was when the thread of the idea burrowed its way, wormlike, deep inside her head.
It is also easy to confuse a conviction with what is merely a good set-up for a joke.Through thousands of pages of newspaper columns, a novel, a couple of history books and a sort-of memoir runs a thread of ideas that make Mr Johnson an unlikely favourite for grassroots conservatives.
In her political manifestos, Palin occasionally appears bored, or else straining to keep a hold on the thread of her ideas, but here, talking about herself, she is in her element as a performer.
This thread of ideas and daily living practices has been a vital part in the lives of key figures in history, philosophy, politics, science and the arts.
The book is full of wonderful nuggets, but the thread of ideas is difficult to follow.
This is one of those posts in which the succession of events and the thread of ideas that led up to its writing are inseparable from its substance.
