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GENDER-BENDERS, HERMAPHRODITES AND THE ANDROGYNOUS
TOM HENDY
  • Oct 17, 2020
  • 18 min

GENDER-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'...
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BEARDSLEY REANIMATED
TOM HENDY
  • Oct 17, 2020
  • 2 min

BEARDSLEY REANIMATED

I recently came across an amazing find for you fellow aesthete-lovers. A short film by Chris James called "After Beardsley" (1982). I had...
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THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF
TOM HENDY
  • Oct 17, 2020
  • 8 min

THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF

Once 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...
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MEDUSA AND THE BEAUTY OF HORROR
TOM HENDY
  • Oct 16, 2020
  • 25 min

MEDUSA AND THE BEAUTY OF HORROR

Our lives are filled with horror, whether this is being accosted by thugs down dark alley or looking at a particularly unpleasant bank...
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THE HOMO-UNCONSCIOUSNESS: AN ANALYSIS OF "FIGURE D'ETUDE"
TOM HENDY
  • Oct 16, 2020
  • 6 min

THE 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...
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MELANCHOLIA & MATHEMATICS
TOM HENDY
  • Oct 16, 2020
  • 17 min

MELANCHOLIA & MATHEMATICS

In the early 19th century, Wackenroder and the Nazarenes re-appropriated Albrecht Dürer by characterizing him as a nationalist figure and...
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THE BOREDOM OF ART
TOM HENDY
  • Jul 12, 2020
  • 27 min

THE BOREDOM OF ART

Amongst the jackals, panthers, bitches, Apes, scorpions, vultures, serpents, Yelping, howling, snarling, groveling monsters In the...
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SILENCE IS GOLDEN
TOM HENDY
  • Jul 12, 2020
  • 3 min

SILENCE IS GOLDEN

Time 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...
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