Did you build that?
From a book within a book:
“He said that architecture was truly the greatest of the arts, because it was anonymous, as all greatness. …
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Art
Upcoming talk at Representational Art Conference, Ventura
I’ll be giving an invited talk at The Representational Art Conference in Ventura, California, from October 14-17, 2012, hosted and organized by California Lutheran University. My talk will include themes from my essay “Why Art Became Ugly,” first published in Navigator magazine and subsequently translated into in German [pdf], Korean [pdf], and Spanish. Other invited
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Three new novelists
Over the spring and summer I read three enjoyable books, all by first-time authors of fiction. Looking forward to more from them. Pietros Maneos, The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos. A lushly Romantic series of letters by young American poet on an odyssey to Rome — both contemporary Rome and the idealized and historical city
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Carlin Romano’s America the Philosophical
Over the years I’ve enjoyed and learned from many of Carlin Romano’s articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He can do good philosophical reporting. So I picked up America the Philosophical, and I was disappointed. Romano’s thesis is that the United States is a nation of vigorous philosophical activity and — contrary to the
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Yet more on how great artists become great: Rodin
Following up on a series of posts about Michelangelo, Beethoven, and Liszt. From Frederic V. Grunfeld’s very good Rodin: A Biography, the answer in the case of August Rodin is education and self education. Rodin was born into a French culture in which the large majority of the population was illiterate or semi-literate. The fact
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Sculpture name and place?
Does anyone know this flowing sculpture’s name, location, or creator? One suggestion I’ve received is that it’s from La Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires.
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Today’s art collectors
Indeed, Patrick, indeed. Click for full size. Taken in Florence, across the piazza from Santa Maria Novella.
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Artistic Genius — Magna Graecia
Shooting for Artistic Genius: When It Flourishes in the presence of real Greek temples, monuments, and amphitheatres. Awe inspiring. Greek culture, centered especially in Athens, was the fount of what art historian E. H. Gombrich called “the greatest and most astonishing revolution in the whole history of art.” The intensely personal poetry of Sappho, the
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