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Alice Neel’s Brothers Karamazov February 24, 2015 | by Dan Piepernbring The Paris Review Alice Neel, Untitled (Karamazov, His Three Sons, and the Servant Gregory), ca. 1938, 14 ¼” x 10”. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London. Alice Neel, who died in 1984, is remembered best as a portraitist—her paintings present friends, lovers, ..

The man who made Monet: how impressionism was saved from obscurity How did the impressionist painters, once attacked by critics, become a global force? A major exhibition reveals their change in fortune was all down to one man – and he wasn’t even an artist Light reflections … A detail from Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1872), dismissed by critics as worse than wall..

Absolute English Science once communicated in a polyglot of tongues, but now English rules alone. How did this happen – and at what cost? by Michael D. Gordin 4 February 2015 Aeon World scientists. Photo by Benjamin Couprie/Wikimedia. Color by Sanna Dullaway Michael D Gordin is a historian of modern science at Princeton University in New Jersey. His latest book, Scientifi..

How Technicolor Changed Storytelling A century ago, people worried that color would ruin motion pictures; instead, it changed visual narratives forever. Adrienne LaFrnace Feb 2 2015, 8:00 AM ET The Atlantic Monthly Screenshot from Fig Leaves, 1926 In the dawn of the age of cinema, adding color to black-and-white films was something like "putting lip rouge on Venus de Milo." Tha..

Wagner and the Jews Elena Zhidkova as Kundry and Nikolai Schukoff as the title character in the Opera de Lyon's 2012 production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal. Photo by Philippe Merle/AFP/Getty Images. Essay Nathan Shields Jan. 5 2015 Mosaic About the author Nathan Shields is a composer whose works have been performed by numerous vocalists and chamber-music groups. He earned his..

[시론]번역을 언제까지 이대로 방치할건가 박상익 (본지 논설위원/우석대 역사교육과 교수) 한국대학신문 | 승인 2015.01.26 00:37:36 철학자 김재인 박사는 지난해 12월 들뢰즈의 ‘안티 오이디푸스’를 번역 출간했다. 프랑스어 원서 500쪽, 한글번역본 700여 쪽에 달하는 책을 번역하는 데 10년..

Ideas From Poesy to Carrot Carnations When arts die, they turn into hobbies. By Michael Lind The Smart Set A rose is a rose... Unless it's a carrot carnation I had never heard of a carrot carnation. But when, back in the 1980s, several of my fellow staffers at the office of a Texas State Senator in Austin wanted to learn about them, I went along to kill some time. (There are d..

이원복 교수 “32년간 11개국 그리다보니… 먼 인생 이웃인생 다 보여” 김화성전문기자 drawData('DA_ARTICLE_BODY'); ? --> 입력 2015-01-24 03:00:00 수정 2015-01-24 03:38:18 동아일보 [오뚜기와 함께하는 오뚜기인생]만화가 이원복 교수 세상 밖으로 나가라. 길 위에 길이 있다. 이원복 교수는 평생 ‘만화..

The Virtue of Scientific Thinking Steven Shapin / January 20, 2015 Boston Review Fronstispiece from New Almagest (1651), by the Italian astronomer and Jesuit priest Giovanni Battista Riccioli. Source: History of Science Collections, the University of Oklahoma Libraries Can science make you good? Of course it can’t, some will be quick to say—no more than repairing cars o..

Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical What is a perfect society, and what’s the best kind of utopianism? Terry Eagleton looks at future thinking and concludes that our system is run by dreamers who call themselves realists . Civitas Veri, or City of Truth, by Bartolomeo Del Bene Terry Eagelton The Guardian Friday 16 October 2015 11.00 BST L..