Cloud Poetry

Lecture on Gandhi

Angus Wilson, 1956

Journals, bits and pieces, bobs. Article by Kevin Tsai in “Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 2008”

Peace Lessons by Timothy Braatz

The “invisible masterpiece” is an unattainable ideal, a work of art into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. Using this metaphor borrowed from Balzac, Hans Belting explores how the status and meaning of the “masterpiece” have been elevated and denigrated since the early 19th century. Before 1800, works of art were either imitative (portraits and landscapes) or narrative (history painting). But under the influence of Romantic modernity, the physical object - a painted canvas, for example, or a sculpture - came to be seen as visible testimony of the artist’s attempt to achieve absolute or ultimate art; in short, the impossible. — Hans Belting, 2001

Poems by David Woo

Boredom

A selection of my various gripes and resentments toward the art world and art in general

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A series of explorations into the emotions that poetry can conjure up in our deepest psyches.

A collection of Lenape voices. Lenape: The Original People of the Island of Manhatta.