“Horror Demands Laughter”| This Is Not a Review of Thomas Bernhard’s Novel Frost
The Blind Man, Albert Bloch I. Thomas Bernhard’s first novel Frost is (unless I’m mistaken) his longest, and of the several I’ve now read, the most taxing on the reader—bitter, caustic, depressive,...
View ArticleFilm of Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painting and Smoking
Tagged: Art, Painting, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
View ArticlePortrait of the Artist’s Mother
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother — Vincent van Gogh The Artist’s Mother — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait of the Artist’s Mother — Camille Pissarro Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (Portrait of the...
View ArticlePortrait of the Artist’s Mother
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother — Vincent van Gogh The Artist’s Mother — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait of the Artist’s Mother — Camille Pissarro Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (Portrait of the...
View ArticlePortrait of the Artist’s Mother
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother — Vincent van Gogh The Artist’s Mother — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait of the Artist’s Mother — Camille Pissarro Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (Portrait of the...
View ArticleThursday — John Moore
Thursday, 1980 by John Moore (b. 1941) Tagged: Art, John Moore, Painting, photorealism, Thursday
View ArticleKitsch in its purest form; absolutely no irony here
From a hilarious profile on Odd Nerdrum, in which he discusses his 1997 work The Savior of Painting: Almost life-size, it depicts the artist in a golden robe, armed with paintbrush and palette,...
View Article“Books are made out of books”| Blood Meridian and Samuel Chamberlain
In his 1992 interview with The New York Times, Cormac McCarthy said, “The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.” McCarthy’s...
View Article“Books are made out of books”| Blood Meridian and Samuel Chamberlain
In his 1992 interview with The New York Times, Cormac McCarthy said, “The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.” McCarthy’s...
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