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Art

"Is Fiction the Art of Lying?" by Mario Vargas Llosa The above link is to a Google Books Search for references to a 1984 piece in The New…

Plan 9

(Continued) The final link in today's previous post leads to a post whose own final link leads to… Thursday, December 13, 2012 Space Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM  …

ART WARS: Chesterton Thursday

The New York Times  philosophy column "The Stone" last evening had an essay on art by a sarcastic anarchist, one Crispin Sartwell— "… whole generations of art lovers have been trained in…

Space

… The sequel to Vibrations Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies of Modernism," Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self (Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) —  “… the object sets…

Chromatic Plenitude

(Continued from 2 PM ET Tuesday) “… the object sets up a kind of frame or space or field  within which there can be epiphany.” — Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies…

Spider Women

"Of course, the aesthetic program of cultural modernism has long been summed up by the maxim épater la bourgeoisie." — The New York Times Sunday Book Review, July…

ART WARS continued

See the signature link in last night's post for a representation of Madison Avenue. For a representation by  Madison Avenue, see today's New York Times— "As a movement…

True Grid (continued)

"Rosetta Stone" as a Metaphor   in Mathematical Narratives For some backgound, see Mathematics and Narrative from 2005. Yesterday's posts on mathematics and narrative discussed some properties of…

Deconstructing Alice

Alyssa is  Wonderland Manohla Dargis in The New York Times  yesterday— "Of course the character of Carroll’s original Alice is evident in each outrageous creation she dreams up…

Plato's Ghost

Jeremy Gray, Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics, Princeton, 2008– "Here, modernism is defined as an autonomous body of ideas, having little or no outward reference, placing…