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Notes of an Aesthete

Alice Gribbin

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Uccello, Correggio, Tiepolo

detail from Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Allegory of Virtue and Nobility (1747–78, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena)

What might a new aesthetics consist of in the visual arts? What follows is something of an answer.

First though, it would be s...

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Questions on the Beautiful

Delacroix, detail from Arabs Traveling (1855)

If one painter could replace another in the popular imagination, for the sake of the arts and for society it should be a Frenchman for a Hollander, both of the nineteenth century—Eugène Delacro...

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How Art Lasts

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It helps when first watching The Party and the Guests not to know a...

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The Serious Artist

Marlene Dumas, The Baby (1985)

I’m writing a book on the Muses, a remystification of the arts, that expands on this essay. It will be published by Census Press in 2025.

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Muse among the Drafts: Part II

Henri Matisse, Untitled (Study for Reclining Nude) (1911)

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In a recent review of a work of contemporary video art, the novelist and poet Ben Lerner made a bizarre admission:...

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    A poet, remystifying art. Writing a book on the Muses and another on the mythological nudes of Correggio.

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