Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris By Alicia Foster. Thames & Hudson, 2023. Hardcover, 272 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Sean McGlynn. The work of the Welsh artist Gwen John (1876-1939) has recently re-emerged from relative obscurity. This is due to two fine...
The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 384 pages, $30. Reviewed by Clayton Trutor Not all that long ago, the Renaissance was common cultural terrain in American life....
Art and Objects by Graham Harman. Polity, 2019. Hardcover, 240 pages, $70 (Paper, $25). Reviewed by Scott Beauchamp One of the most dreadful afflictions of our time is not being able to tell where things begin or end. Or if they have an autonomous “self” at all. You...
Aesthetics: Volume I by Dietrich von Hildebrand. Hildebrand Press, 2016. Paperback, 508 pages, $20. Aesthetics: Volume II by Dietrich von Hildebrand Hildebrand Press, 2019. Paperback, 608 pages. $20. Reviewed by Andrew Thompson-Briggs One of the rituals peculiar to...
By Michael Toscano When Mabel Tolkien died on November 14, 1904, in a diabetic coma, her two sons, Ronald and Hilary, twelve and ten years of age, were passed to the legal guardianship of Fr. Francis Xavier Morgan, a priest of the Birmingham Oratory, founded less than...
"[Steely Dan} songs capture a certain temperamental #conservatism, equal parts cynicism towards the promise of a brighter tomorrow and yearning for a sense of social order long past, that feels right at home in our age of fractured shabbiness."