The Bystander
Trygve RasmussenAn online publication focused on the critique and analysis of art, literature, and a few other subjects.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 31 | Founded | 10 months ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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How to Think Like Marcus Aurelius: Ten Pictures that Strike into the Heart of 'Meditations'
I thought it would be a rather interesting exercise in decoration or literary illustration to create a sort of gallery of pictures which correspond with lines out of the Meditations of a man whom most of history remembered as Antoninus, but...
Why Khrushchev Hated Modern Art
Thanks to the success of the film Death of Stalin, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is not regarded as a character in human events who was marked by any want of humour. Rather, in the film, we find an extremely funny, if also extremely v...
The Artist in Revolutionary Russia
One of the best-known paintings out of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is the painting Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, painted in 1919 by the enthusiastically Bolshevik painter El Lissitzky. Littler known, though certainly known by some...
The Painter Who Killed a King
Jacques-Louis David1 (read: Dah-veed) exists today as one of the fantastic personifications of two revolutions: the first, the neo-classical revolution and consequent triumph over the spirit of rococo; the second, the French Revolution. Ind...
The Best Book I Edited in 2025
While there certainly await books already imagined and yet to be imagined in 2026 for me to write, edit, and publish, I am quite satisfied with the books I completed in 2025, whose fruits were both intellectual and personal. Above them all...
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Writer of books & essays, editor, Vizier. Writing on Substack mostly about art, history, & philosophy.
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