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The Spiritual Terror of Modern Art – Can We Make Ourselves Beautiful?
This [modern] art is the work of your neighbors, your contemporaries, human beings who are crying out in despair for the loss of their humanity, their values, their lost absolutes, groping in the dark for answers. It is already late, if not too late, but if we want to help our generation we must hear…
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Mark Lanegan: The Poetry of an Addict
I don’t know many people who have heard of Mark Lanegan, much less listened to his music. This is perhaps more a reflection of the limitations of my social circle than his popularity. I first encountered Lanegan’s music on the soundtrack of the television show Lie to Me starring Tim Roth. The track was Kingdoms…
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The Effect on Art of the Loss of the Ideal
Why is that art in its various forms has declined in our modern age? For some this question may itself be a non-starter, for they don’t perceive any decline but rather a proliferation of forms that one can choose from. Nothing is really better or worse than any other, it all comes down to the…
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Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album: On Suffering
As a work of 19th-century Russian literature, it is no surprise that the Sketches contains much suffering in it. In keeping with his role as an interested yet detached observer, Turgenev simply describes the plight of his characters “as it is”, appended with only a few heartfelt or ironic comments from himself, never going beyond…
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Turgenev’s Sketches from A Hunter’s Album: On The Value of Nature
This is part one of a series of posts exploring Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. I recently finished reading Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. It is a compilation of short “sketches” about Russian country life written by Turgenev whilst hunting on his mother’s estate in the early 19th-century, and was first…
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