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Ay Que Bonito

Continued from earlier posts.

For Katy Perry

See also this  journal on the date of Mr. Howard's death: "Mark my words This love will make you levitate Like a bird" — Katy Perry, "Dark Horse" “It’s…

Symbolic Poetry*

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?” — Man of La Mancha Perhaps the late Sidney Lumet?            The setting for…

Upon a Time

Sermon

“Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.” ― Max Lüthi

Backstory

" Some works are less visually striking than infused with a kind of symbolic poetry. Is a good backstory enough to make a compelling work of art? "…

High and Low Concepts

Steven Pressfield on April 25, 2012: What exactly is High Concept? Let’s start with its opposite, low concept. Low concept stories are personal, idiosyncratic, ambiguous, often European.  “Well,…

Putting the Con in Conceptual

Edward Frenkel in The New York Times , in an op-ed piece dated Feb. 20, 2015 — "… I suggest that we regard the paradoxes of quantum physics as…

Conceptual Art

See High White in this journal. Related material: The Astoria Column on Coxcomb Hill, Astoria, Oregon See also a tale from today's Daily Astorian   (click the AP link in Parks…

Review

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