A journey through five centuries of art, from Bosch’s monsters to Sendak’s beasts, and what they reveal about how humans build meaning and what happens when it breaks.
Wow, Conrad—that is both sweeping and insightful (two adjectives that rarely go together, in my experience.) I’m currently (slow) reading a book by a Colombian anthropologist, Carlos Granés, that walks through Latin American painting, poetry, and politics through the long 20th century—1899s to now (as shaped by economic , hence political elites, a world I was not educated in, which has always puzzled me), and I’m finding it fills holes that I could not work around, particularly the Romantic underpinnings of the political *right*. There’s a reasonable representation of Brasil, though it flows effortlessly across borders (which I’m also finding useful.). Title: Delirio Americano.
Wow, Conrad—that is both sweeping and insightful (two adjectives that rarely go together, in my experience.) I’m currently (slow) reading a book by a Colombian anthropologist, Carlos Granés, that walks through Latin American painting, poetry, and politics through the long 20th century—1899s to now (as shaped by economic , hence political elites, a world I was not educated in, which has always puzzled me), and I’m finding it fills holes that I could not work around, particularly the Romantic underpinnings of the political *right*. There’s a reasonable representation of Brasil, though it flows effortlessly across borders (which I’m also finding useful.). Title: Delirio Americano.
Thanks, Bruce. I need to find ou,t more about "the Romantic underpinnings of the political *right*"
This is a wonderful piece, Conrad. You have given us insight into art, cultural values, and our present condition.
Many thanks, Raymond.
Hello from another Boschian Substacker who sometimes writes about wild things!
Hello fellow Boschian!
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Good point. I remember how much the later Goyas disturbed me when I saw them at the Prado.
Great. But let’s also remember Goya’s powerful The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters and other pieces In his Los Caprichos