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The program ) arrived here about 8 days ago (2nd program last night). I was reading a commentary of it in our daily rag this…
I’m not a fan of op-ed columns in general, which, given space limitations, are necessarily superficial no matter how learned their authors might be. And…As some of you may know, Britain's Prince Harry (currently third in line to the throne) was recently in Afghanistan and most of us in…There's an interesting debate ongoing at the moment regarding the best way to address the challenge of intelligent design. It has come about because of…(Spoilers...although I notice the movie made 350 million total dollars so I guess you've seen it.)
I found this movie to be very moving, but…This is an abbreviated, possibly naive post until I get my bearings together. Over at the blog, A House Next Door, a writer was critiquing…The Japanese director Akira Kurosawa employs the same crop of actors for many of his dramatic roles. Takashi Shimura, who played the leading role in…I have a recommendation for a movie that I have found particularly cogent and morally powerful. It's called "The Girl in the Cafe". As far…The death of Bobby Fischer has got me to thinking about chess, aesthetics and madness.
(A quick side note: I thought that at one time…As a child, i remember when i first read a book on greek mythology. The stuff was fascinating to me, feature gods often acting little… The Manuscripts
Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy is a monumental work that blends cinema, philosophy and music in a seamless whole. Its sheer depth poses a host…Although he had claimed upon its completion that the Three Colours Trilogy would be his final work, Krzysztof Kieślowski was writing (with his long-time collaborator…When Steven Soderbergh's version of Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris opens with the sight of Kris Kelvin sat on his bed, listening to the disembodied sound…M. Night Shyamalan's The Village has aroused vociferous responses from viewers and commentators alike but there have been few detailed studies of the themes and…In 1880 Vincent Van Gogh, 27 years old, decided to become an artist. It was a strange decision, because by that age most people either…All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. — Walter Pater
In 1863 Édouard Manet scandalized the art world by painting a picture of…I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. – Van Gogh
Art legend holds that Vincent Van…"Render Nature by Means of the Cylinder, the Sphere, the Cone, all Placed in Perspective." - Cezanne.
Art historians regard Van Gogh and Cezanne as…Before moving on to discuss Picasso and the main art trends of the 20th century, I thought I'd tackle the vexing, "But is it art?"…In The Principles of Art, first published in 1938, the Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood wrote: "The artist proper is a person who, grappling with…People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree." - Picasso
What more can anyone say about Picasso? Certainly I have…... "cries of children, cries of women, cries of birds, cries of flowers, cries of timbers, and of stones, cries of bricks, cries of furniture,…In earlier essays, I talked about the problem of demarcating art from non-art, and efforts to judge art as either good or bad. All such…Where does one begin with Borges? What meanings, if there is any at all, do we glean from his work? Who is Borges? And how…In his The Possessed (also known as Demons) and other works, Dostoevsky employed an advocatus diaboli device familiar to and used by the Schoolmen and…Bret Easton Ellis’ masterpiece American Psycho is typically described as a satire ("a black-hearted satire on the terrible power of money" said Jenny Turner in…Abstract: Wag the Dog is a film about media manipulation. In the first section of the paper, some relatively unknown "Wag the Dog" cases are…
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