Tag Archives: aesthetics

Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Houyhnhnm

[what follows is, even more than usual for this blog, an amateur reaction from dipping ignorant toes into vast oceans] Visionary, poetic, extreme: Nietzsche and Blake provide book-ends to Romanticism. Both seek to up-end conventional morality, Blake because it represents … Continue reading →

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Fit Bodies: Statues, Athletes and Power

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Houyhnhnm

A small and interesting exhibition at UCL on views of the (beautiful) human body over millennia, from Greek sculpture to female bodybuilders, usefully augmented by entries from a student competition of photographs on the same theme. The entries are here; … Continue reading →

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