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Eugene Von Bruesnchenhein, Apocalyptic cityscape in flames (1955)from The End is Near: Visions of Apocalypse, Millenium, and UtopiaThe Apocalyptic Longing: Looking toward 2012by Christopher SprangerNo VoiceIt is high time we recognized and overcame our tendency to try and confer legitimacy on prophecies we are keen to advan (Read More)
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The Blog of Innocence:
Rene Margritte, Clairvoyance (Self-Portrait)Reading the New York Times Book Review, one frequently comes across assertions like:But looking at her writing from this perspective misses the most interesting part: her sentences. No one writing in English today produces anything quite like them. Take, for example, the following (Read More)
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I've been busy editing the online arts journal, Escape into Life, and so I apologize for the brief hiatus since my last post . . .The Blog of Innocence is still running, but the time between posts may vary. My next post will follow the series 25 Profound Works of Literary Genius; I'll be writing about the Tale of Genji by M (Read More)
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Designer Eric Smith was diagnosed with cancer and it motivated him to start an art project called Live Now. He has collaborated with many talented people, if you’re interested let him know!
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Etching by Attila Sassy (1880-1967) for his Opium Dreams, 1909. Published under the pseudonym Aiglon. Same info for all images. Click for larger versionsDiary entry by Géza Csáth, Jan. 13, 1913.In combating myself I can only report one bloody defeat after another. Not even in this respect is fortune willing to smile at me. (Read More)
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Medicine and Public Health - Model of man in Maze of Superstition exhibit 39-40Medicine and Public Health - Model of man in Maze of Superstition exhibit 1939-40I was sad I couldn't find a reason to use the above two images for a Halloween post. I think they came from the bowels of the Library of Congress. I would love to kn (Read More)
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The Blog of Innocence:
Most definitions of the word "character" emphasize moral strength. But "moral strength" is only slightly less conceptually vague than the word "character". What does character really mean?Character embraces the whole person, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. Character seeps into the physical person as well, ble (Read More)
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Submitted by Lethe Bashar:
Through myths and monsters, Baade explores the complexity of the human condition within her imaginative portraits. These trompe l’oeil oil paintings are rich with allegorical meta-narratives inspired by literature and art history. She has traveled around the globe in search of inspiration; her works manifest history paintin (Read More)
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Not too long ago I had the opportunity to design a tee for Crownfarmer, and it was just released yesterday! My design is called “How a bird becomes a ghost”. If you have some pocket money grab yourself a tee, while you can!Keep your eye on Crownfarmer, every week a new artist is revealed! Artists previously revealed: Andrew (Read More)
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Jasper Wong has a frosty illustration style that developed around an odd and unhealthy obsession with the color pink, Mr. T, and magical laser beams. Yet somehow it all combines into his own unique clash of Asian-influenced pop culture on paper. (Read More)
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Nabil’s distinctive technique of hand-colouring silver gelatin photographs removes the blemishes of reality and recalls the heyday of Egyptian film. Nabil disrupts prevalent notions of colour photography and painting, as well as assumptions about the type of aesthetics associated with art and those identified with popular c (Read More)
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This book expanded my understanding of what a novel can do. As a writer, there has been no greater influence.I've read it three times from beginning to end, and I return to passages regularly. The Man Without Qualities is a three volume work, left unfinished at the author's death. The serial chapters continually open up the (Read More)
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Submitted by Lethe Bashar:
When you think of the Met in New York you might imagine marble statues, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and Rembrandt. But it’s also a good place to see new art. Two weeks ago I entered one of the galleries for contemporary art and found myself face to face with the gaping maw of Damien Hirst’s tiger shark in formaldehyde. It (Read More)
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Without the effort by some to make a distinction between what is beautiful and what is ugly, the beautiful disappears, becomes meaningless, and ultimately incomprehensible. But since there are no universally accepted aesthetic values, we can never reach indisputable criteria when judging taste. (Read More)
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Submitted by Lethe Bashar:
When we look at a painting, what is going on? For many, and this is anecdotal, I feel there is a desire to be moved, or to seek meaning in the painting. For the art philosopher, Richard Wollheim, it was important to spend hours before a single painting, as if through this experience of communing with the painting one might (Read More)
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