This was originally posted by moonplague. And I urge anybody that is remotely
interested in M R James to click on the link to The Hauntological Society
and have look. A big thanks to moonplague for this excellent post.
the hauntological society.: Montague Rhodes James: "There is something dismaying in a life with nothing to regret and nothing to hide. In the case of Montague Rhodes James, however, this has ..."
MRJ uses mundane objects which then appear quite important. He followed an artistic movement called 'Found Objects" in whitch every day objects are chosen as a form of Contemporary art. Marcel Duchamp, with his Fountain in 1917(a porcelain urinal), is the Father of this movement.
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