All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
August 4, 2024Academics often say that there are two ways to use history: As a means to understand...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Scott Zesch
July 27, 2024"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
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Art & Design
Art for a New Gilded Age
July 22, 2024Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
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Great Britain
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 10, 2024Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
July 3, 2024Troy's novel has much to recommend it, including sensitive character delineation and powerful narrative set pieces....
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Art & Design
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
June 30, 2024But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
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Biography
Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
June 30, 2024It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...
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Music
Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
June 3, 2024Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
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Art
Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
May 29, 2024Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...
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Great Britain
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
May 28, 2024The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...