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By Art and Architecture, mainly on May 10, 2024 in: Britain, literature, medicine, music, science
Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933-2015) was born in London, youngest of four sons of two Lithuanian Jewish doctors. Oliver spent most of his childhood in London, though his GP father and surgeon mother sent him to a rural boarding school for 4 years in WW2 t...
By Boing Boing on Apr 29, 2024 in: literature, science fiction
J.G. Ballard, whose relevance never waned during his writing career, is perhaps more relevant since his passing in 2009. His latest book, Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 (The MIT Press, 2023), more than illustrates the claim. The chapter "Lists, Capti...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Apr 26, 2024 in: Britain, history, literature
The term Grand Tour first appeared in the Voyage or a Compleat Journey through Italy 1670, by Frenchman Richard Lassels. Published in London, the book became a guide for scholars, artists and art collectors who were planning...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Apr 5, 2024 in: Britain, literature, paintings
Knight, The Fishing Fleet, 1900 Boston Museum & Art Gallery.Knight, The Boys Newlyn Cornwall, 1909, Johannesburg Art Gallery.Barbara Morden’s book dealt with the British artist born to the impoverished Johnson family.
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Mar 26, 2024 in: Britain, France, history, literature, London, paintings, women
A Bluestocking was a mid C18th intellectual woman with strong scholarly or literary interests. A group was founded to discuss the arts, started by two high society ladies in Britain: heiress Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) and intellectual&nb...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Mar 12, 2024 in: Australia, Britain, Christian, Israel, literature, Melbourne
Jews, Christians and Muslims, Peoples of the Book, shared a common basis of their religious beliefs in the Jewish Bible aka the Old Testament. Recognising the two older systems as precursors to their own, Muslims granted freedom of worship to...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Mar 12, 2024 in: Australia, Britain, Christian, Israel, literature, Melbourne
Jews, Christians and Muslims, Peoples of the Book, shared a common basis of their religious beliefs in the Jewish Bible aka the Old Testament. Recognising the two older systems as precursors to their own, Muslims granted freedom of worship to...