Claudia Moscovici
03.02.2020
Invitation to Panodyssey, the Social Network for the Arts
The twenty-first century has seen an explosion of social networks. Each major network has anticipated and fulfilled a growing social need. Conceived in 2004 by Harvard undergraduate Mark [...]
27.01.2020
A Spiritual Visionary
Review of “Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mind Heart and Soul” by Edward K. Kaplan Edward K. Kaplan’s monumental new biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mind Heart and Soul [...]
20.01.2020
Realism in Art (verisimilitude)
The aesthetic revolution that occurred during the twentieth-century is unprecedented in the history of Western art. Even the invention of one-point perspective and the soft shading that gives the [...]
13.01.2020
Perpetuating Holocaust Memories: Bipartisan support for The Never Again Education Act
One of the many difficult lessons the Holocaust has taught us is that Jews need not be influential or numerous in a country to give rise to anti-Semitism. According to the United States Holocaust [...]
06.01.2020
A Sketch of Postromanticism
The obvious question in calling anything post- or neo-something is: how exactly it is “post” or “neo”? How, in other words, is it new and original and not simply anachronistic and repetitive? [...]
30.12.2019
The Legacy of Modernism
In most of his work the philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto explains the rise of conceptual art. His artistic heroes are Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, who arguably contributed most visibly [...]
23.12.2019
The Innovations of Impressionism
If any art collection can be said to have a profound impact upon the history of art and aesthetics, the paintings exhibited at the Salon de Refusés in 1863 would certainly be on a top ten list. [...]
16.12.2019
Aesthetics after Romanticism: Art for art’s sake
Before the nineteenth-century, originality and individuality were not the most highly prized qualities of art. As for autonomy, or regarding art as separate from social functions, this notion [...]
09.12.2019
Romantic Aesthetics: Wordsworth and Baudelaire
Romanticism connected the sentiment of passionate love to artistic expression perhaps more closely than any other literary movement by describing both as the undistorted expression of intense and [...]
02.12.2019
The love affair between Diderot and Sophie Volland
For almost thirty years, up to the very end of their lives, Diderot wrote beautiful, touching letters to his friend Louise-Henriette Volland. While these letters became more subdued in tone and [...]
