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Amory Crane | Editor-in-Chief @DecadentSerpent | Writer on Art, Literature, Culture | Shepherd of the Great Souled.
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The best review yet of The Naked Spur. This one pointed something out that I myself had not noticed, though doubtless it contributed to my immense enjoyment of the novel. There is no interiority. The characters do not have an inner life, but are shown from the outside. This is…
As well as being a brilliant novelist, Anita Brookner was also an art historian at the Courtauld institute alongside Brian Sewell back in the day! Here she is on some eminent French painters. Interesting stuff, should give it a watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=GTsgGu…
Has there been anything like it since Ali and Foreman met in Rumble in the Jungle?
This is a decent thread explaining how the optical branches took precedence over the narrative branches in art. You'll find it goes back earlier, so that the Symbolists get less attention than the Impressionists because the legitimation of the optical line (Imp, P.Imp, Cubist,…
🎨How did Art get super ugly & retarded? Grab a drink. This is a BIG thread💥 The mainstream story is bullshit. Pre-WWI (1911–14), 80% of artists were figurative/classical, adapting against avant-garde chaos & stagnant academicism [Royal Academy records].
'I don’t know what the life of a rascal is like since I have never been one, but that of an honest man is abominable.' De Maistre
To bring the pictures at my current Warsaw exhibition to a wider audience - and to introduce the pictures to serious international collectors - I have added the art to my website. Almost all of this art was made this year especially for this exhibition. View the collection here:…
Anyone want a piece on that little masterpiece 'Boule de Suif' and how captures perfectly in miniature the situation of the migrant hotels etc. today?
The list of objectives: 1. History of Novel Course 2. Complete Novel 3. Work on 'The Reactionary Imagination' 4. Die of astonishment if and when I reach their conclusion. As an inherently lazy person, I simply can't stop working.
Had an itch to read Ben Jonson today. Been a while since I’ve read Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
Three little known/read but brilliant novelists: 1. Dorothy Richardson 2. John Cowper Powys 3. Henry Green Proof enough that talent is not insured against obscurity.
Some of you may have seen this before, but it's probably one of my best essays so far. Check it out.
If the nature of politics changes, then art's purpose must surely follow. Reflecting on the discoveries of Elite Theory, Amory Crane (@LaughingCav1) draws our attention to the potent possibilities for the art of the future.
Why am I now accosted with highly attractive but scantily clad women on my feed? Not that I'm complaining, but I feel a man really ought to earn such a felicitous scenario, rather than get it placed in his routine as if it's an e-mail notification. Beauty demands more of us men.
People who go on endlessly about Lord of the Rings have never read Porius by Powys. That's the real deal.
D. H. Lawrence, as Anthony Burgess once said, is the patron saint of all writers who never got an Oxbridge Education. Here is Burgess on Lawrence. A fine documentary for a Sunday night. youtube.com/watch?v=WPvBzT…