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So as long as I'm not going to get meself a Tumblr (at least, I hope I'm not), I might as well make this more tumblresque sure fine why not, right? Maybe that will work to prod some activity here and there.
Interesting when you find out something about someone you'd never known before. For example, while I neither read, deify, nor admire him, I hadn't before heard about Lovecraft's ... interesting views on race.
Racialicious: The ‘N’ Word Through The Ages: The ‘Madness’ Of HP Lovecraft
...Seriously, he gave his cat THAT word for a name! I mean ... WHAT? (Also, I'm guessing he didn't much like cats, either.)
Similarly, I hadn't known that Norman Rockwell painted anything but genteel portraits of a bygone white America. And yet, it turns out that he had.
Norman Rockwell and the Civil Rights Paintings
By Angelo Lopez
February 11, 2008
"Southern Justice" is a genuinely shocking painting, even more so when you consider that it came from Rockwell. Granted that it seems to have come after "The problem we all live with", it still had to be one hell of a shock to his normal audience. (For some reason, I'm seeing a variety of dates for "Southern Justice", either 1963, 1964, or 1965 so far. 1965 seems to be authoritative.)
No trenchant commentary or observations. Just seems to be the season for hearing things about artists in various realms that you hadn't known before.
Interesting when you find out something about someone you'd never known before. For example, while I neither read, deify, nor admire him, I hadn't before heard about Lovecraft's ... interesting views on race.
Racialicious: The ‘N’ Word Through The Ages: The ‘Madness’ Of HP Lovecraft
...Seriously, he gave his cat THAT word for a name! I mean ... WHAT? (Also, I'm guessing he didn't much like cats, either.)
Similarly, I hadn't known that Norman Rockwell painted anything but genteel portraits of a bygone white America. And yet, it turns out that he had.
Norman Rockwell and the Civil Rights Paintings
By Angelo Lopez
February 11, 2008
"Southern Justice" is a genuinely shocking painting, even more so when you consider that it came from Rockwell. Granted that it seems to have come after "The problem we all live with", it still had to be one hell of a shock to his normal audience. (For some reason, I'm seeing a variety of dates for "Southern Justice", either 1963, 1964, or 1965 so far. 1965 seems to be authoritative.)
No trenchant commentary or observations. Just seems to be the season for hearing things about artists in various realms that you hadn't known before.
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