Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 8:40 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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small eyes and longer neck? Modigliani's paintings.
Worth considering . . . but not what I was vaguely remembering.
Jeffery Hodges
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that kind of African sculptures, anyway, were 'currency' among artists in Paris - Modigliani included - at the beginning of the 20th century. see Picasso's paintings and private collection.
the 'war against' that stuff was started by Salvador Dali.
I thought of Picasso, too, and what you've called attention to. Still, I'm thinking of some other, specific sculpture . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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I know, but, being a follower of Dali's, I am completely ignorant about African art...
Interesting, though, this autonomous tradition of 'realist' art in Africa (not that En-Uk's is in the realist tradition).
Jeffery Hodges
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True, even if the African art which inspired the 20th century European artists was the less realistic one. In fact, they were looking for something "different" from the usual Western standards.
And from what I've seen, the Yoruban art shades seamlessly from realism to non-realism.
Jeffery Hodges
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what about Mali?
Those two are certainly elongated!
Jeffery Hodges
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