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poussin: willing into the trap of fantasy
In short, Poussin’s reason got him trapped in fantasy. His striving for legibility backfired: the pious Madame du Housset , who owned the Vergilian Shepherds of Arcady, had placed it in her chapel thinking it was an altarpiece. …. Poussin … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged andrew butterfield, Arthur Schopenhauer, dr. steven adams, Fernando Pessoa, Joshua Reynolds, lucian greek writer, Martin Buber, michel passart, natalis comes, Nicolas Poussin, Rene Descartes, Spinoza, thomas jefferson monticello
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THE PRODIGIES: CHECK-MATE ON GENIUS
The cutoff for what is often considered ”gifted” is an IQ score that is among the top two percent of the population, which is a score of 130 on the Wechsler scales, or 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale. This sole … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Bobby Fischer, Britney Spears, Catharine Morris Cox, Chris Hitchens, David Duke, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edison, Francis Galton, Gary Kasparov, Goethe, Grady M. Towers, Handel, IQ Tests, James Woods, Jeremy Schaap, John Stuart Mill, Kevin MacDonald, Lord Byron, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mozart, Muhammed Ali, Noam Chomsky, Paul McCartney, Robert S. Albert, Sartre, Spinoza, Stanford-Binet Scale, Voltaire, Weschler Scale, William E. Benet, William James Sidis
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