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Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
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Joel Ackerman
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The Opportunity
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2019
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The Opportunity
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| The last impressionist? Definitely influenced (as most of these modern painters of his era) by Japanese art. Beautiful. | |
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| If I'm comparing only the female artists I know, I probably prefer Valadon, and I prefer her to many male painters too. A broken, kindred spirit. An inspiring story. And beautiful art. ...more | |
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| If not for the interesting account of Pascin's death, and his art, this would get one star. This book was all over the place and difficult to follow, did not provide page #s, referenced a lot of art not in the book--everything I don't like in a book ...more | |
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| Monet's quest to do the impossible and his shifting from one canvas to another in relation to the light are inspiring, as well as his strict adherence to "no theory," although clearly he had SOME theory. This was a long, redundant read, but not unint ...more | |
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| She is one of those artists whose work I think must suffer from being photos of a painting. There is a blandness to her art and to her life story that doesn't make for good reading. (Neither of these statements should be taken as me not liking her ar ...more | |
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| How he managed to imbue so much into seemingly so little, and create art so near caricature, is remarkable. | |
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| I'm surprised these books can't be more intuitively arranged and clear. Nevertheless, I come away from this one with a good grasp of Klimt the artist. He didn't believe philosophy, medicine or law would save us, but art. Or maybe women. Or at least m ...more | |
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| I'm surprised these books can't be more intuitively arranged and clear. Nevertheless, I come away from this one with a good grasp of Klimt the artist. He didn't believe philosophy, medicine or law would save us, but art. Or maybe women. Or at least m ...more | |
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| Great analysis. Not much bio, which I think I prefer in these books, even if I'm curious as to biography sometimes. ...more | |
“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”
― Odd John
― Odd John
“Homo sapiens is a spider trying to crawl out of a basin. The higher he crawls, the steeper the hill. Sooner or later, down he goes. So long as he's on the bottom, he can get along quite nicely, but as soon as he starts climbing, he begins to slip. And the higher he climbs the farther he falls. It doesn't matter which direction he tries. He can make civilization after civilization, but every time, long before he begins to be really civilized, skid!”
― Odd John
― Odd John
