TOM HENDYOct 17, 202018 minGENDER-BENDERS, HERMAPHRODITES AND THE ANDROGYNOUS When you sit down and watch the fluffy and lighthearted 'Finding Nemo' you don't realise the complex balance of the clownfish 'harem'...
TOM HENDYOct 17, 20202 minBEARDSLEY REANIMATEDI recently came across an amazing find for you fellow aesthete-lovers. A short film by Chris James called "After Beardsley" (1982). I had...
TOM HENDYOct 17, 20208 minTHE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLFOnce upon a time there was a young boy. As a lot of young boys like to do, he enjoyed playing tricks on the gullible villagers in the...
TOM HENDYOct 16, 202025 minMEDUSA AND THE BEAUTY OF HORROROur lives are filled with horror, whether this is being accosted by thugs down dark alley or looking at a particularly unpleasant bank...
TOM HENDYOct 16, 20206 minTHE HOMO-UNCONSCIOUSNESS: AN ANALYSIS OF "FIGURE D'ETUDE"Having won the prestigious Prix du Rome in 1834, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, a pupil of Ingres, journeyed to L’Academie de France to learn...
TOM HENDYOct 16, 202017 minMELANCHOLIA & MATHEMATICSIn the early 19th century, Wackenroder and the Nazarenes re-appropriated Albrecht Dürer by characterizing him as a nationalist figure and...
TOM HENDYJul 12, 202027 minTHE BOREDOM OF ARTAmongst the jackals, panthers, bitches, Apes, scorpions, vultures, serpents, Yelping, howling, snarling, groveling monsters In the...
TOM HENDYJul 12, 20203 minSILENCE IS GOLDENTime for my mini-post and I'm going vastly off-topic from my usual theme but this really struck a chord with me (pun intended). I am...