From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced ...
This book burst all my rose tinted bubbles about "Gentlemen Art Thieves". There are no Thomas Crowns or Indiana Joneses but a cartel of nasty mafioso more in line with "The Sopranos" or "James Bond" circa 1970's. But that is the reality because this book is a Non-Fiction. A non-fiction that re...
Robert Frost, A Boy’s Will, verse 2, ‘The Trial by Existence’, 1913; in Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose and Plays, New York: The Library of America, 1995, page 28. Everdell, Op. cit., where Chapter 21, ‘Annus Mirabilis’, is given to 1913. 2. John Rewald, Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collect...
After several hours of talks, a prospective agreement was outlined, under which ownership of the objects would pass to the Italian government, but the objects themselves would either remain on display in the Met or be replaced by equally important pieces. The plan had to be approved by the Italia...
The glass panes were held in place by stark strips of flat metal welded together in oblongs. There were no curtains and just one pane, hinged at the top, which opened to let in air. It did, however, have a wide sill and that is where Zola found it comfortable to perch himself. Since I had allowed...