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Hace 4 días · In "My Belief: Essays on Life and Art," Hesse tells us the secret to truly grasping the essence of Dostoevsky’s work: "Staring from afar into life, bereft and crippled by misery and no longer able to understand life in its wild, beautiful cruelty, wishing to have no more to do with it, then we are open to the music of this terrifying and magnificent writer.
Hace 1 día · September 6, 2024–January 5, 2025. The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to present The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917, featuring more than one hundred artists’ studies created for large commissions at civic institutions nationwide. From precise pencil drawings and sensuous pastels to dynamic bronzes ...
Hace 1 día · A notable example of psychoanalytic analysis is the interpretation of Salvador Dalí's *The Persistence of Memory* (1931). Art critics explore the surrealist elements of the painting, focusing on the melting clocks, which symbolize the fluidity of time and the irrational nature of dreams. Freud's concept of the "dream-work" process, where ...
Hace 3 días · In “The Power of the Humanities and a Challenge to Humanists,” Richard J. Franke argues that humanistic interpretation “contributes to a tradition of interpretation.”. Franke posits that human emotions and values are at the core of humanistic study, offering the ability to explore domains that “animate the human experience.”.
Hace 2 días · The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips takes up these restive questions with his characteristic rigor and sensitivity in On Wanting to Change ( public library) — an insightful investigation of the paradoxes and possibilities of change, at the heart of which is our fundamental confusion about knowing what we really want, and what to want. He writes:
Hace 3 días · This essay examines a little-known but important installation entitled Insure the Life of an Ant, conceived by artist Mike Malloy and displayed at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York in April of 1972. This provocative and idiosyncratic piece confronted gallery-goers, who became viewer–participants, with the option of killing or saving a live ant displayed like a sculpture on a pedestal ...
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