Upon leaving the National Gallery’s 1250-1400 collection, The Magdalen Reading[1], c.1438, by Rogier van der Weyden caught my attention. The close-up, even claustrophobic, view of a woman reading surrounded by cropped figures contradicted my understanding of the composition and subject matter common for Early Netherlandish religious scenes, normally depicting several full figures. Indeed, this obscurity in the […]
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Disclaimer: This is an imaginary dialogue featuring Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), a French writer, intellectual, existential philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Philosophical Dialogue Featuring Simone de Beauvoir Somewhere in Northern Paris, 1955, Simone de Beauvoir defends her theory of the self and others that she explored in her 1949 work, The Second Sex. Louis, […]
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