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 →In 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 →Thus Winckelmann’s 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 →Johann 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 →Vasari 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 →The 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 →In 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 →Fictioning 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 →One 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 →A 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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