What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: ...
Continue Reading βIn Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to ...
Continue Reading βThus Winckelmannβs project, which offered an ambitious survey of cultural history, found an eager audience in international circles comprised of Enlightenment intellectuals and cosmopolitan elites ...
Continue Reading βJohann Joachim Winckelmann 1717-68, a German scholar and art historian, was one of the most influential figures in the Neoclassical movement. In the second half ...
Continue Reading βVasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, “that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed”, and the ...
Continue Reading βThe young student should, in the first place, acquire a knowledge of perspective, to enable him to give to every object its proper dimensions: after ...
Continue Reading βIn The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human, Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones offer readers a series of chapters united ...
Continue Reading βFictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate that which does not exist. In this ...
Continue Reading βOne of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress ...
Continue Reading βA graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography ...
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