Art Critiques

 

EARTH ART FORUM art blog
Entries invited by submission via Blog Comment :
Critical Art Reviews from anywhere & articles on
Art History & Theory, when deemed appropriate,
will be posted as an Entry. When making a Blog
submission, please email related art images to

azothgallery@comcast.net.



Original Essays

TRANSITION and the SUBLIME:
An Art History of the Early Renaissance
by JOHNES RUTA (New Haven, CT)


A Literary Theory: PROLEPSIS: The Dream of Consciousness
by JOHNES RUTA (New Haven, CT)



A Critique of [Im] Pure Criticism:
An Outline of legitimate Criteria for Art Criticism by JOHNES RUTA (New Haven, CT)

An Humanities Timeline Bibliography by JOHNES RUTA (New Haven, CT)



Views and Visions of Thomas Cole by CARL  PFLUGER  (Quebec, Canada)




Art Links

CT ARTSCENE BLOGSPOT


The Sublime: philosophical selections by Longinus
Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, & Wordsworth
a brilliant short essay by Janice E. Patten, faculty of
San Jose State University.



Edmund Burke (1729-1797) : A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin
of Our Ideas of The Sublime and Beautiful
(Bartleby.com - complete text)

 

Longinus on the Sense of the SUBLIME

The Web Gallery contains over 8,500 digital reproductions of European paintings
and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800.

http://gallery.euroweb.hu/index.html

Northern Renaissance Art Web
http://www.msu.edu/~cloudsar/nrweb.htm

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

The Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

The Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/

Gallery Worldwide -contemporary art
Artwork in different styles and media, offering a wide
variety of features and services that enable customers
and artists to buy and sell art.
http://www.gallery-worldwide.com/

Pablo Picasso cubism history
Description: How and why Pablo Picasso created cubism. Comprehensive study of the art of Pablo Picasso.

Advanced Techniques and Materials of Music
(Dr. Gordon J. Callon)

http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/4103-13/4113.htm

A Guide for translating symbolism in Renaissance art:
Caesar Ripa (fl. England, 1600) -- "ICONOLOGIA or Moral Emblems
various images of virtues, vices, paffions, arts, Humours,
elements & celeftial bodies"

http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/Ripa/Images/ripatoc.htm

Caesar Ripa's  ICONOLOGIA transcribed by Rawn Clark on Adam McLean's Alchemy website.tp://www.levity.com/alchemy/iconolog.html

 

William Blake  websites

The William Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/


Book Reviews

Contributed by JOSEPH  CAEZZA (Norwich, NY):
"THE VOICE OF THE EAGLE: the Heart of Celtic Christianity, John Scotus Eriugena's Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John,"  translated with introduction and reflections by Christopher Bamford;  Lindisfarne Books (2000) 335 p, $16.95

"THE HERMETIC MUSEUM: Alchemy and Mysticism" by Alexander Roob. Taschen Books, Hohenzollernring 53, D-50672 Kolin, (1997); 711 pp., $29.95

"DWELLINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS," by Fulcanelli; Archive Press, (1999); 530 pp. 38 plates; $150.00 hand crafted, leather bound, limited edition; $49.99 hardcover.

"ANTIMONY IN MEDICAL HISTORY,"  by R.Ian McCallum; Pentland Press, (1999); 125 pp. 22 illustrations, hardcover, 15 pounds sterling.