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    Dec 2, 2023Photograph of Samuel Beckett, Allain Robbe-Grillet, 1977, via French National Library Certainly, some works of literature are often seen as embodying a certain set of philosophical principles. There is a long critical tradition relating Samuel Beckett's work to a movement in French philosophy known as existentialism (incidentally, this movement was the subject of one of Murdoch's earliest ...
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    Jan 12, 2024Though she married the art historian Michael Levy in 1954, theirs was an open marriage, and Brophy went on to have relationships with the novelist Iris Murdoch as well as poet and fellow animal rights activist Maureen Duffy. ... (1953), beat Iris Murdoch's Under the Net (1954) to win first prize for a debut novel at the Cheltenham Literary ...
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    7 days agoNike was commonly depicted as a winged woman holding various celebratory items, such as a sash or wreath to crown a victor, a cup and bowl to pour libations, or a lyre for victory songs. However, despite her regular appearances on coins, vase paintings, and temple reliefs, Nike is not prominently featured in Greek literature.
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    Foreign groom in a tributary procession, Mesopotamia ca. 721-705 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the latter half of the 3 rd Century BC, a myth was created on clay tablets by the humans that founded our language of today. This place was Mesopotamia, and it was here that humanity birthed the very beginning of literature.
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    Apollo and the Muses, by John Singer Sargent, 1921, via the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the nine muses were born to enthuse. Zeus was the king of all the Greek gods, and their mother, Mnemosyne, was the Titaness of Memory. Memory was especially fitting as the mother of the Muses because, in a largely illiterate society, memory was essential to remember the ...
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    Feb 20, 2024The five pamphlets and box from Max Enst's Une Semaine de Bonte, 1934. Source: Auction France The notion of artist's books first became popularized during the early 20 th century. Art movements such as Dadaism, Futurism, Surrealism, Expressionism, and Constructivism saw artists toying with typography and graphic design, particularly within self-published manifestos and magazines, which ...
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    The Women of Algiers by Pablo Picasso, 1955, sold by Christie's (New York) in 2015 for an astonishing $179 million to Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Doha, Qatar. Cubism art was a modern movement that is known today as the most influential period in 20th-century art.It has also inspired subsequent styles in architecture and literature. It is known for its deconstructed, geometric ...
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    Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) was one of the most renowned and respected philosophical minds of the 20th Century. She grew up in an era when academia in general and philosophy in particular had barely progressed beyond the all-male symposia in which Socrates, Plato and Aristotle took part and women were barely tolerated, even when they were admitted to intellectual spaces.
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    Sep 5, 2024By Rosie Lesso MA Contemporary Art Theory, BA Fine Art Rosie is a contributing writer and artist based in Scotland. She has produced writing for a wide range of arts organizations including Tate Modern, The National Galleries of Scotland, Art Monthly, and Scottish Art News, with a focus on modern and contemporary art.
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    Albert Camus, L'Etranger, 1942, via John Atkinson Books Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus shared the belief that life was completely absurd, irrational and random, with no definable structure. From the 1940s to the 1960s a literary and theatrical branch of Existentialism emerged out of this mindset called the Theatre of the Absurd.

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