18/12/2007

British Essayists: Charles Lamb – Popular Fallacies

XVI.THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE

We grant that it is, and a very serious one — to a man’s friends, and to all that have to do with him; but whether the condition of the man himself is so much to be deplored, may admit of a question. We can speak a little to [...]

18/12/2007

Global Moods

Peter Campbell about Mirror of the World: A New History of Art by Julian Bell
Julian Bell has written a tremendous history of world art, one that will inevitably be compared with Gombrich’s The Story of Art, published nearly sixty years ago. Since then image-making technologies that seemed mature have changed and expanded their reach. In [...]