Author Listings (Criticism & Theory)
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| Award winning author and Smithsonian postdoctoral fellow, Cassandra Langer has just completed a new book on the lesbian, expatriate painter,Romaine Brooks (1874-1970). http://www.Romainebrooks.com
Langer is the author of six books, numerous articles and catalogues and has curated many exhibitions including those focus....[more] |
| Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, and critic who coined the term “surrealism.” His play, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, is considered one of the earliest surrealist works. He is known as Guillaume Apollinaire.
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| Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982) was a French poet, novelist, editor, and essayist. Along with the French writers Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault,
Aragon was a founder of the surrealist movement. He was also a member of the Communist Party and The Société littéraire des Goncourt (English transl....[more] |
| An influence on many modern philosophers, Georges Bataille was born in France in 1897. While for some of his childhood, he considered the priesthood, even attending a Catholic seminary for a period of time, but soon changed his mind. After graduation from the university, Bataille worked as a librarian at the National L....[more] |
| Charles Baudelaire shocked his French contemporaries so much with his decadent and disturbing artistic visions that his surname became a byword for such a style. Born in 1821, Baudelaire was raised in Paris where his father was a priest. Formal education held little interest for Baudelaire as he was expelled from his u....[more] |
| William Blake (November 28,1757- August 12, 1827) Blake was an was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was the third of seven children. Blake's father, James, was a hosier. William never attended school, and was educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. The Bible was an early and profoun....[more] |
| Samuel Butler, English writer, artist, and satirist, was born on December 4th, 1835 in Nottinghamshire, England. The eldest of four children, Butler had a rather hostile relationship with his parents. Though his education started at home, he referred to his parents as “stupid” and soon began to reject his strict Angl....[more] |
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