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Archive for December 9th, 2007

Nietzsche on Art

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve been reading Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, and a passage in the third essay, “What is the meaning of aesthetic ideals?” intrigued me:
…[I]t is certainly best to separate an artist from his work so completely that he cannot be [...]

Original art by Austin Osman Spare for sale by Fulgur

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Yesterday Fulgur Limited, renown publisher of things Sparian, announced they’d “been asked to find new homes for a handful of small sketchbook studies by AOS. These were purchased from the artist c.1953-54 by Ernest Chapman and we understand have not been seen on the open market for over 30 years.”
Needless to say, they appear to [...]