A Figure Model’s (Brief) Guide to Poses through Art History
Dec 18, 2019 · On the model stand, I could take a graceful dancer’s stance, like one of the Three Graces in this Roman replica of a Hellenistic statue, perhaps draping my arm over a prop, like …
Why Do We Keep Reading ‘The Great Gatsby’? - The Paris Review
Jan 11, 2021 · It’s creepier and profoundly, inexorably true to the spirit of the nation. This is not a book about people, per se. Secretly, it’s a novel of ideas. Gatsby meets Daisy when he’s a …
The Paris Review - John Gardner’s Tangled Legacy
Sep 14, 2017 · I hope it does more good than harm. —John Gardner, when asked what effect he thinks his writing has had on people, in conversation in The Paris Review, issue no. 75 (Spring …
The Paris Review - Arts and Culture News
Nov 8, 2024 · By Hervé Guibert. Originally published in 1980, Suzanne and Louise tells the story of two sisters—one widowed, the other never married, recluses in a hôtel particulier in Paris’s …
What We Can Learn from Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
Mar 26, 2018 · We can all speak. We can all be part of the dialogue. And poetry can be part of the collective way we, in Neruda’s words, “explain some things.”. From Neruda and others we can …
What We Know of Sappho - The Paris Review
Dec 8, 2020 · Intact, Sappho’s poems would be as alien to us as the once gaudily painted classical sculptures. In total, all the poems and fragments that have reached us, as brief, …
Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence
Nov 24, 2020 · It was just such a beautiful color, and so accessible. It was hard for painters to resist, even when they knew it would render their works mortal. To use verdigris was to accept …
How Picasso Bled the Women in His Life for Art
Nov 9, 2017 · There are some who see Picasso’s treatment of women in a relatively positive light: the women in his life enriched his art and, in turn, he depicted them in loving portraiture and …
The Seventy-Four Best Entries in The Devil’s Dictionary
Oct 25, 2017 · The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer’s narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer’s authorship of the work, …
The Most Misread Poem in America - The Paris Review
Sep 11, 2015 · According to Google, then, “The Road Not Taken” was, as of mid-2012, at least four times as searched as the central text of the modernist era—The Waste Land—and at …