Category: Arthur Mulder
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Series of essays on art and laziness as a form of rebellion
Read more: Series of essays on art and laziness as a form of rebellionWabi sabi and the picturesque The classic Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi is the beauty of the imperfect, impermanent, incomplete and broken. This concept is reflected in the west through the work of the William Gilpin. His writing responded to the grandfather of aesthetic-theory, Edmund Burke, who claimed that the key elements of beauty are smoothness…
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Olivia Rodrigo and the Beauty of Teen Music
Read more: Olivia Rodrigo and the Beauty of Teen MusicDespite how personal some popular music may feel, it is almost always a group effort. Large record labels have much invested in artists and won’t let them fumble around creating whatever they please. True, untouched, individual music, with a few exceptions, can only really be found on the fringes of the music industry’s fiscal scale.…
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Roland Barthes, Kanye West and the Rebirth of the Author
Read more: Roland Barthes, Kanye West and the Rebirth of the AuthorIn 1967 Roland Barthes announced the death of the author in his essay of the same name, like Nietzsche had once announced the death of God. Barthes believed that the moment a work of art is sent out into the world, leaving the caring hands of its author, meaning springs from its interaction with the…
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