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NOWHERE PEOPLE: STRANDED IN ''NOWHERESVILLE''

”A few years ago, I told an English professor (who regularly teaches Thomas More’s Utopia in his Renaissance literature courses) that I was preparing to give a paper at a conference of the Society for Utopian Studies. He asked me where the meeting was … Continue reading

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GENIUS: A CONDITION OF POWER and HELPLESSNESS

The times they were a’ changing. Albrecht Durer’s goal was to expand the expressive range of German art by bringing it to the expressive disciplines of the Renaissance. The vistas of the Alps, and the breadth and vigor of the … Continue reading

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FROM CRAFTSMAN TO GENTLEMAN: AN ALLEGORICAL PREMISE

Albrecht Durer( 1471-1528 ) is usually called the greatest German artist, despite the importance accorded to Matthias Grunewald, whose more wild and fantastic fervor, even hallucinatory art, is more to the modern taste than Durer’s methodical exploration of the world … Continue reading

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