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P.E. Healy
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The 1840 essay of Edgar Allen Poe “The Philosophy of Furniture” remains one of the most provocative essays written on interior decoration, and it has variously been read as ironic, ambivalent, and in some cases simply polemical; an essay wherein Poe vents his spleen on the jejune
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Max Raphael. The invention of expessionism
Critical writings 1910-1913
This collection contains the early writings of the German art historian Max Raphael, published between 1910 and 1913. First rediscovered by Patrick Healy and issued in German as Das schöpferische Auge (1993), they are presented in English translation here for the first time. In t
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How to read (with) Benjamin
From cultural history of materialism to materialist history of culture
Only images in the mind vitalize the will. The mere word, by contrast, at most inflames it, to leave it smouldering, blasted. There is no intact will without exact pictorial imagination. No imagination without innervation. (Benjamin, 1920s)
Someday, when the prospect of an angel
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