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"Reading Aristos has given me much pleasure and instruction."
- Jacques Barzun (1907-2012)
March 2013
ARISTOS AWARDS [About]
Dwight D. Eisenhower [for remarks on modern art]
U.S. President (1953-1961) / Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, World War II
Bubbles and Beyond: An Ongoing Musical Saga
by Alexander Comitas (Eduard de Boer)
A traditionalist composer reflects on avant-garde bias in Holland's Performing Arts Fund--and on the clever musical hoax he cooked up to prove his point.
Picasso and Matisse: A Contrarian Reappraisal
by Louis Torres
On Picasso's trajectory from academic realism to inscrutable or grotesque Cubism; and on Matisse as a "color genius."
EXHIBITION
Peerless Piero
by Michelle Marder Kamhi
Review of a small exhibition (just seven paintings) at New York's Frick Collection, featuring work by the early Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca.
BEST OF ARISTOS
[From the Print Archives]:
The Misreading of Literature (October 1986).
WORTH LISTENING TO (AND VIEWING)
J. S. Bach, The Unaccompanied Cello Suites
Suite No.1, Prélude [audio/video]
Suites Nos.1-6 [complete: audio]
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello
ALSO OF INTEREST
Aristos (1982-1997)
About, sample articles, reviews, back issues. . .
What Art Is: The Esthetic, Theory of Ayn Rand (2000). Chapter Summaries, Reviews/Responses. . .
The Definition of Art (Ch. 6)
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What Art Is Online (2000-2003)
Supplement to What Art Is -- articles and excerpts
The Aristos Awards
Readings on Art Education
WebCommentary
Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), British playwright
Jack Schaefer (1907-1991), author of Shane
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