Self-delusion can drive success| UnHerd
How can you have Religious Zionists who write poetry and music as a religious quest but who also want to override government decisions? How can you have some who want meditation, spirituality, and …| The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
You can also find the beauty of travel in your own literal backyard (if you have one), on any city street, in a shopping mall, in a diner. That experience of being lifted outside of time, of seeing the world around you as strange and wonderful—you don’t need to book time off from work or get on a plane to experience it. You can find it right here and right now. The post Newsletter: December 2024 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
The popularity of ballet on the internet is one that often (but not always) relies on the idea of ballet as a static aesthetic rather than as a performance. And to be more specific, as a distinctly ‘feminine’ aesthetic. As both a writer about ballet and a researcher working within the fields of Adaptation and … The ‘Dead Girl’ Aesthetic & Ballet Online Read More » The post The ‘Dead Girl’ Aesthetic & Ballet Online first appeared on Notes on Metamodernism.| Notes on Metamodernism
Contributor: Nicola J. Watson Location: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA Description: This oil painting executed in 1819 by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) shows part of an extraordinary ‘Indian’ landscape at Sezincote House in Gloucestershire, UK. Still extant, and open to the public, this expensive experiment in the Indian style was completed in … Continue reading "Temple, Pool and Cave, Sezincote Park, 1819."| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Tim Sommer Location: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Description: This manuscript notebook contains fair copies of several poems Shelley wrote during his time in Italy between late 1819 and the summer of 1820. It provides fascinating evidence of the process of creative labour and of the different stages of composition a text … Continue reading "The Harvard Shelley Notebook"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Cian Duffy Location: Philadelphia, USA Description: Located on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, John Bartram’s garden is the oldest botanical garden in America. It was founded in 1728 when Bartram purchased the land in what was then Kingsessing Township, an area originally inhabited by the Lenape people and settled by the … Continue reading "Bartram’s Garden"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Sophie Thomas Location: Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France Description: Dominique-Vivant Denon’s reliquary is both a personal collection and a portable, pan-European museum. It is a late gothic confection made of gilded copper, glass and semi-precious stone, complete with turrets and flying buttresses at each corner. Hexagonal in form, crowned with small cross atop a steeple, … Continue reading "Denon’s Reliquary"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Philip Shaw Location: Cockermouth Description: Samuel Crosthwaite’s picturesque view of Cockermouth in Cumbria works hard to underplay the transformative effects of the transition from water to steam power that took place in the first half of nineteenth century Britain. At the centre of the painting sits Derwent Mill with its distinctive chimney stack. The … Continue reading "Samuel Crosthwaite, View of Cockermouth (1860)"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Joanna Beaufoy Location: Paris, France Description: ‘Temple d’amour’, a ‘Rousseau-ist rêverie’, ‘an ode to landscape art’… the small temple perched atop an artificial cliff in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont in Paris is worth the climb, so long as you are prepared for it for be closed once you get to the top. Indeed, … Continue reading "Temple de la Sibylle, Buttes Chaumont park, Paris (1866)"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Alexander Knopf Location: Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Description: In October 1809, Bettine Brentano sent a long letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. With this letter, a remarkable etching was enclosed. The work, fashioned by Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790-1863), depicted Bettine herself, sitting on a chair with a voluminous book. A … Continue reading "Portrait of Bettine Brentano with Achim von Arnim’s “Wintergarten”"| European Romanticisms in Association
Contributor: Lene Østermark-Johansen Location: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Gift of Molly F. Sheppard Description: An encounter in Rome in 1853 between the Brownings and the American sculptor Harriet Hosmer resulted in a life-long friendship and in this plaster cast of the poets’ hands, a year after Hosmer had become apprenticed to … Continue reading "Clasped Hands of Elizabeth and Robert Browning"| European Romanticisms in Association
What city is best to visit when it comes to museums? In our humble opinion, it’s Madrid. The city is absolutely abundant with art museums, science museums and historical museums. Which museum…| European Travel Magazine
In Ambleside a few days ago to give a lecture, I decided to spend the afternoon walking up to Stockghyll Force, the lovely small waterfalls in the woods uphill behind Ambleside. The weather had been rainy so the Force was full and quite spectacular. Stockghyll has always been a favourite of mine, and especially so […] The post KEATS’S FIRST WATERFALL appeared first on Grevel Lindop.| Grevel Lindop
In 2021 I was commissioned to make two short films (the first appeared on this blog back in December 2021) about Dorothy Wordsworth to celebrate her 250th birthday on Christmas Day 2021. These films are based on talks by experts on her work, and in this second short film, Dr. Penny Bradshaw, Assistant Professor of … Continue reading Dorothy Wordsworth and Nature| Chris Routledge
The 25th of December, 2021 marks the 250th birthday of Dorothy Wordsworth, the sister, and longtime companion of the poet William Wordsworth. Dorothy was an important writer and thinker in her own …| Chris Routledge
| Mysterious Art Century
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I must again beat on this point, I’m ready to explode like Mt. St. Helens, some Russia bish let her toddler run around restaurant shrieking randomly, sounds still reverberating through my nerves hours later…meanwhile she look through backpack as if it was her private bathroom. Oh you’re anti-natalist! You oppose WHITE WOMIN having children going in public…no I oppose decivilization and poeple shitting in middle of road. The real anti-natalism is promotion of this matriarchy. Don’t y...| Tanner Hauser
“There’s a scene in every one of my films that is the heart of the movie, and in Drive it’s the elevator scene. It was a way to tip the viewer to Driver’s essential dilemma. You don’t know if it’s his fantasy or his reality, and he doesn’t quite know himself.” -Nicolas Winding Refn| Tanner Hauser
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded in 1848 by seven young artists who banded together against what they felt was an artificial and mannered approach to painting taught at London’s Royal Academy…| Mysterious Art Century
