Notes of an Aesthete

Do You Want to See?

On the nude and the new perception.

Published on Cluny Journal • Mar 3

October 2024

How Art Lasts

Assessing a Czech New Wave masterwork, The Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech, 1966)

Oct 21, 2024 • 

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July 2024

The Serious Artist

A translation of Ezra Pound

Jul 6, 2024 • 

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April 2024

Muse among the Drafts: Part II

The ongoing aesthetic encounter

Apr 17, 2024 • 

Alice Gribbin

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March 2024

Muse among the Drafts: Part I

The unforgettable in art

Mar 25, 2024 • 

Alice Gribbin

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November 2023

How do the animals treat you?

Recent publications

Nov 9, 2023 • 

Alice Gribbin

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July 2023

Why Good Politics Makes for Bad Art

Addendum to an essay for Tablet

Jul 10, 2023 • 

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March 2023

The Gods have not returned. “They have never left us.”

On choosing to acknowledge the Muse

Mar 24, 2023 • 

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October 2022

A Supreme Fiction

On Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus, briefly

Oct 28, 2022 • 

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Interim: Two Poems

Latch | The Rocks

Oct 2, 2022 • 

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May 2022

The Great Debasement

How art-world institutions have corrupted the terms of the art encounter, for Tablet

May 26, 2022 • 

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February 2022

Art for Art’s Sake in the New Century

A French history of the concept, Nietzsche’s stance, and artists of the Paleolithic

Feb 8, 2022 • 

Alice Gribbin

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