With his dream-like imagery, sumptuous textures, and suggestive use of color, Symbolist star Odilon Redon sought to create a pictorial equivalent to his own psyche. Whether in his somber early works or lighter later canvases, he was above all an artist of states of mind, with considerable influence on Post-Impressionism.
Born in France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism, Symbolist painting plunged headlong into the cultural space opened up by the poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarme and by the operas of Wagner. Symbolist painters sought not to represent appearances but to express the Idea, and the imaginary therefore plays an important part in their work.
Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in finance--a charter school principal and defrocked philosopher--start a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions. Can such a madcap strategy help renew American creativity? Who would do such a thing? This story is the behind-the-scenes romp of one team that threw educational authorities into a panic. It fuses real-life personal drama with history, science, and philosophy to show how higher education and other institutions must evolve to meet the dire challenges of tomorrow.
In 2005 the writer and art. Critic Michael Francis Gibson saw Lech Majewski's 'Angelus' in a cinema in Paris. Fascinated by the director's painterly vision he gave him a copy of his book 'The Mill and the Cross', an analysis of Pieter Bruegel's painting 'The Way to Calvary'. Majewski, whose creative journey began with painting and poetry, admired the depth of Gibson's insight into Bruegel's picture, and this led quite naturally to the idea of writing a screenplay together.
Geïllustreerd / Illustrated / Illustré / Illustriert / 9783822891377 / Symbolism / Duits / German / Allemand / Deutsch / hard cover / dust jacket / 25 x 33 cm / 255 .pp /
