California Literary Review

Ed Voves

Ed Voves is a freelance writer, based in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, the artist Anne Lloyd, and a swarm of cats who love curling up with good books. Mr. Voves graduated with a B.A. in History from LaSalle University in 1976 and a Masters in Information Science from Drexel University in 1989. After teaching for several years with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he worked in the news research department for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and the "Philadelphia Daily News," 1985 to 2003. It was with the "Daily News," that he began his freelance writing, doing book reviews and author interviews with such notable figures as Umberto Eco, Maurice Sendak, and Peter O'Toole. For the "Inquirer," he specialized in reviews of major historical works. Following his time with the newspapers, he worked as an independent researcher for Knowledge@Wharton, the online journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the staff of the Free Library of Philadelphia in 2005 and is currently the branch manager of the Kingsessing Branch in southwest Philadelphia. In 2006, he began writing for the "California Literary Review." History of Yoga

Stories By Ed Voves

Art

Art Review: Drawing Surrealism, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City

By Ed VovesDecember 28, 2021

Serious or concerted intellectual effort had no part in the process of creating Surrealist art –...
Art

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

By Ed VovesDecember 6, 2021

Portraits at the Stock Exchange reveals a truth about the age of the Impressionists that often...
Art

Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

By Ed VovesNovember 30, 2021

The Pre-Raphaelites shared several treasured ideals, but their painting styles varied greatly. The two transcendent themes,...
Art

Art Review: “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art

By Ed VovesNovember 23, 2021

And what is true of Blagdon’s poignant attempt to thwart illness and disease is true of...
Art

Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard

By Ed VovesNovember 17, 2021

Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....
Best Books

Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)

By Ed VovesNovember 8, 2021

A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
Best Books

Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)

By Ed VovesNovember 7, 2021

On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
Books

Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)

By Ed VovesNovember 2, 2021

The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
Art

Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde

By Ed VovesOctober 30, 2021

The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
History

Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn

By Ed VovesOctober 19, 2021

No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...