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Showing posts with label aesthetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aesthetics. Show all posts
11 May 2024

Reflections on 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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I.    The American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is perhaps best remembered today for a (semi-autobiographical) s...
25 Feb 2024

Will Absence Make My Heart Grow Fonder of Byung-Chul Han? (Part 1)

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(Polity Press, 2023)     I.    Although Daniel Steuer's English translation of Byung-Chul Han's book Absence was only published las...
15 Dec 2021

Look Don't Touch (Notes on Art and Haptic Compulsion)

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  Image credit: Raul Arboleda / AFP / Getty Images     I.    Touching objects is surely a vital activity. But just as green grocers don'...
8 Jun 2021

Black is Not Beautiful: Black is Sublime (A Note on Race and Aesthetics)

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  Zanele Muholi Self-Portrait (2016) from the series  Somnyama Ngonyama ('Hail The Dark Lioness') The Cooper Gallery     I.    Raci...
2 Jan 2021

D. H. Lawrence and the Arts: An Initial Reaction Written Under the Influence of Sour Grapes and Baudrillard

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Edinburgh University Press, (2020)     This new collection of essays on D. H. Lawrence, edited by Catherine Brown and Susan Reid, probably d...
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28 Aug 2018

On Painting Ceilings

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Kazimir Malevich   Suprematist Composition: White on White  (1918)   Oil on canvas (79.5 x 79.5 cm) I. The Sistine Chapel ceili...
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11 Apr 2015

Is Strong the New Pretty ... or the Old Ugly?

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  Photo by Kate T. Parker of her daughter, Ella, aged 9,  on the night before competing in her first triathlon. From Strong is...