What You Need to Know to Become an Illustrator
The Internet and the availability of education (at least in developed countries) has made it possible for people to pursue whatever careers they want. A…
The Internet and the availability of education (at least in developed countries) has made it possible for people to pursue whatever careers they want. A…
By Karen Zouaoui What Ever Happened to Modernism? is Gabriel Josipovici’s rallying cry in the face of an overly conservative literary tradition in the UK.…
By Michael Savage Some of the earliest art exhibitions gathered together selections of the greatest works they could find, without particular concern for coherence. The…
By Miguel Fernandes Ceia William Gaddis’ attack on the institution and on the entertainment industry, in his posthumous novel, Agapē Agape, claims that there is…
By Valentine Rossetti The question of beauty in art has, over the past few years, come more and more into question. Both critics and philosophers…
By Nicky Charlish The mountains of words that have been written on Andy Warhol rival the supermarket stacks of the soup cans which, via his…
By Nicky Charlish Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the man of seemingly endless identity changes. David…
By Nicky Charlish The popular image of Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century is of a city of contrasts symbolized by the strutting…
The royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal is shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh that are now…
Modern art is often difficult to appreciate, at least for people who do not display an interest in visual arts such as graphics or paintings.…
This article [Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/02/10/who-says-michelangelo-was-right/]…
By Colin Dickey In the fall of 1849, Gustave Flaubert invited his two closest friends—Louis Bouilhet and Maxime du Camp—to hear a reading of what…
By Leon Botstein Marking anniversaries of the birth and death of historic figures, particularly in music, is somewhat akin to commemorating annually the date of…
By Christopher S. Celenza “Comedian,” admittedly, is not the first word you associate with Machiavelli—and “funny” is not a word normally applied to Lucretius. And…
Four hundred years ago, on April 23, 1616, Miguel de Cervantes died. In the prologue to his posthumously-published The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda, he…
The only known image of the dramatist, poet, pamphleteer, and initially unrepentant libertine Robert Greene is a woodcut from John Dickenson’s Greene in Conceipt, printed…
Hollywood produces dozens, if not hundreds, of movies annually. Although a significant part of them is meant solely for entertainment and possess little-to-no artistic value,…
It is a well-known fact that listening to different kinds of music can evoke various feelings and moods in a listener. For example, listening to…
”Flowers for Algernon,” written in 1966 by Daniel Keyes, has rightly become one of the most well-known fantasy novels in world literature. Originally written as…
We can only imagine the impact that this life-size painting had on viewers 100 years ago. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” flaunts a brazen disregard for the…