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		<title>Painting Russian Royals in the Eighteenth Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephenP</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aleksey Antropov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carle van Loo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherina Golitsyna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denis Diderot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizaveta Petrovna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Marc Nattier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis-Michel van Loo.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portrait painting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Undoubtedly, the court, which delighted in what we call “bling” today, would prefer the portrait by van Loo, who fulfilled everything required of him. He kowtowed to convention in style and beauty, and painted what a princess should look like. ]]></description>
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		<title>Kafka&#8217;s Letter To His Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkerste</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature Essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["You struck nearer home with your aversion to my writing and to everything that, unknown to you, was connected with it. Here I had, in fact, got some distance away from you by my own efforts......."]]></description>
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		<title>Hieronymus Bosch – A Window on God’s Creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TonyT</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hieronymus Bosch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bosch eschewed the Italian emphasis on linear perspective and anatomical study in favour of his own version of space impregnated with spiritual or numinous force.]]></description>
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		<title>Virg&#8217;s World  &#8211; The Art of Micro-Interventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephenP</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interventionist art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A curator at Galerie für Landschaftskunst said that Virg's art was “bewitching”. Yes, it is, in the manner of Harry Potter or the magic realist texts. These inanimate objects are charmed into something amusing that stop you in the tracks. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Creativity Sanctuary of Lefty Caligari</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 17:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jholt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Art Therapy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AiM (Artists in Mind) was founded nine years ago as such a place for creative self realisation, as a place of respect and freedom of expression. ]]></description>
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		<title>Art Thesis by Athena Taylor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 17:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ATaylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Considering more contemporary art, the symbols (often occult) of some abstract art provide a window into understanding the human psyche and the cosmic principles governing the universe."]]></description>
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		<title>A Question of Values, by Morris Berman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TonyT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Western life seems to be drifting toward increasing entropy, economic and technical chaos, ecological disaster and ultimately, psychic dismemberment and disintegration.]]></description>
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		<title>Obsession, art and photography</title>
		<link>http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/obsession-art-and-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FShively</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Furuya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obsession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodchenko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tichy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obsession: can it be instrumental in propelling artists to greatness, and to the attention of critics, collectors and curators?]]></description>
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		<title>Mythology Never Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TonyT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of myth, according to the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, is “to strengthen tradition and endow it with a greater value and prestige by tracing it back to a higher, better, more supernatural reality of ancient events”. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dali and the Stage of Surrealism</title>
		<link>http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/dali-and-the-stage-of-surrealism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkerste</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a certain point in his life as an artist, Salvador Dali fused two modes of painting that at first glance appear to be incompatible.]]></description>
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