Renoir’s portraits may be said to have for their subject his love, perhaps for the particular people he painted and certainly for painting as well. And thus, more generally, Renoir’s portraits speak to us about what love is or can be. Gratitude seems a large part of it in Renoir’s case.
Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: Eakins, Harvard University, Impressionism, love, male gaze, painting, Renoir
Revisiting this Proverbial Question of Equal Opportunity Review of No Citizen Left Behind by Meira Levinson (Harvard University Press, 2012) {click for pdf} By Moorel Bey And what I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all, the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead in America. (Applause.) President Barack Obama, 2014 State of […]
Categories: Review • Tags: African-Americans, education, Harvard University, segregation
Reading (again) Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes this World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1998). Hyde is a former professor of writing at Harvard University and was made an MacArthur Fellow in 1991 (amongst other awards). His book on the trickster figure explores the archetype in various aspects, from the mythological figure that helps humanity gain its food and challenges social conventions, to artists like Picasso and Duchamp who challenged the conventions of art. For anyone who enjoys the tricksters’ amusing antics, this […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: Harvard University, Pablo Picasso, Trickster
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