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The Two Women Who Wrote as “Michael Field”

The Atlantic 23 May 2024
Sign up here. The poetic genius— tortured , solitary—is a familiar figure ... This was the era of “art for art’s sake,” of Walter Pater’s swoon-worthy prose about the Renaissance, of Aubrey Beardsley’s drawings for Wilde’s Salome ... Beauty attracts emotion.
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Happy World Book Day 2024: 30 powerful quotes by renowned authors to celebrate World Book ...

Hindustan Times 22 Apr 2024
If you, like us, enjoy the company of books more than the company of humans, you can vouch for the unique ability that the books have to both entertain and teach ... Explore now! ... - Dr ... - Walter Pater"A house without books is like a room without windows."
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The Isleworth Mona Lisa: have Leonardo da Vinci fans worshipped the wrong portrait for centuries?

The Observer 29 Nov 2023
Move over, Salvator Mundi ... What a sensation! The. Original. Mona. Lisa ... People were already obsessing about the artwork in the 19th century when the critic Walter Pater raved that Lisa in her green, misty setting is some kind of sexy underwater “vampire”.
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With Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan heard you --- and finally went woke

Indian Express 22 Jul 2023
All art aspires to the condition of music, according to 19th-century literary critic Aesthete Walter Pater ... The film opens with a soundtrack that seems never to stop, marching from scene to scene towards an inevitable end with nary a scale change.
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Lisel: Patterns for Auto-Tuned Voices and Delay review | John Lewis's contemporary album of the month

The Guardian 10 Feb 2023
(Ba Da Bing) The singer feeds her voice through myriad effects units in a beautiful album exploring authenticity and artifice The art critic Walter Pater once said that all art constantly aspires to the condition of music ... ....
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Lisel: Patterns for Auto-Tuned Voices and Delay review – a full-throated solo orchestra

The Observer 10 Feb 2023
The art critic Walter Pater once said that all art constantly aspires to the condition of music. You could also argue that all musical instruments ultimately aspire to the condition of the human voice ... Cover of Patterns for Auto-Tuned Voices and Delay.
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Botticelli’s Secret by Joseph Luzzi review – a great mystery in the picture

The Observer 21 Dec 2022
It is not unknown for tourists to faint in front of Botticelli’s 1486 masterpiece The Birth of Venus ... A range of visionary critics, from Jacob Burckhardt in Switzerland to Walter Pater in Britain, began to look with new favour on the Renaissance ... .
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Was the Book Macron Gifted Pope Francis Stolen?

The American Spectator 30 Oct 2022
During an hour-long Oct ... Par. Emanuel Kant ... The library was well-stocked with volumes of Montaigne and Diderot, Goethe and Fichte, John Henry Newman and Walter Pater, as well as, evidently, a 1796 edition of Kant’s Perpetual Peace in French translation.
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I grew up listening to these horror stories: Arjun Raj Gaind on revisiting the 1984 pogrom and writing 'The Anatomy of Loss'

The Times of India 13 Oct 2022
Author Arjun Raj Gaind is back with his new novel 'The Anatomy of Loss' this year ... Excerpts.. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... I excised acres of ornate, descriptive writing ... As Walter Pater put it so well, good writing should ‘burn always with a hard, gemlike flame.’ ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... .
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Everything But Emptiness: Bucked Up Space By Nik Colk Void

The Quietus 07 Apr 2022
In the winter of 1954, Edgard Varèse premiered his Déserts composition at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris ... The important thing is the music, the art that all others aspire to as Walter Pater put it, whatever manmade tools get us there ... ....
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Raphael, the painter of perfection

New Statesman 06 Apr 2022
The 19th-century critic Walter Pater described the frescoes, in effect a summation of Renaissance humanist thought, as “large theoretic conceptions” that are “addressed, so to speak, to the ...
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The Mythology, Ritual, and Art of Romantic Socialism

Dissident Voice 18 Feb 2022
Later when we examine the art of Walter Crane, we will see his work as a longing for a sensuality hedonism and paganism ... Morris’s ideals certainly stemmed from Ruskin and Walter Pater’s Renaissance ideas of beauty ... Walter Crane.
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