Monthly Archives: October 2019

Bracelli’s modern art – 1624

Posted on October 26, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/bracellis-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624/ I have long maintained that art has its rivers that have been flowing through culture at all times, and my friend Roger Malbert just sent me the interesting link (above), posted by The Public Domain Review. This bears out … Continue reading →

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Thoughts from the Wife of Bath

Posted on October 19, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

             “My liege lady, generally,” quod he, “Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel over hir housbond as hir love, And for to been in maistrie hym above. This is youre mooste desir, thogh ye me kille. Dooth as … Continue reading →

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An Inquiry into the Sublime

Posted on October 4, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Walter de Maria Lightning Field 1977 This talk for Norfolk Contemporary Art Society in Norwich, Wednesday 2nd October, 2019, is in essence a much edited amalgam of two of my essays in Art and its Dark Side: the eight rivers … Continue reading →

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Nubia

Posted on October 1, 2019 by anthonyhowelljournal

Rome and Nubia With this link to an excellent documentary about what happened after the deaths of Anthony and Cleopatra, I’m going to open a post I shall return to on Nubia. It was thus I was introduced to Queen … Continue reading →

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