Reads tagged with “art”
Gorgeous Vintage Japanese Illustrations of Animals and Scientific Phenomena
A vibrant minimalist celebration of nature, from the scale of cells and atoms to the scale of elephants and the Moon.
French Artist Paul Sougy’s Stunning Mid-Century Scientific Illustrations of Plants, Animals, and the Human Body
A diagrammatic serenade to nature in primary colors.
Delight as a Daily Practice: A Poetic Illustrated Meditation on the Meaning of Happiness and Its Quiet Everyday Sources
A lovely countercultural invitation to savor the unpurchasable joys with which the world is strewn.
Engraving Is Eternal Work: How to Dodge a Deadline Like William Blake
A subtle lesson in taking responsibility while protecting the integrity of the creative process and the freedom of the artistic imagination.
Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You: Whitman’s Immortal Words, Illustrated in Stunning Cyanotype
A charitable celebration of art, science, our shared belonging.
The Fate of Fausto: Oliver Jeffers’s Lovely Painted Fable About the Absurdity of Greed and the Existential Triumph of Enoughness, Inspired by Vonnegut
A soulful meditation on the eternal battle between the human animal and its ego, played out on the primordial arena of elemental truth.
Debbie Millman’s Touching Letter to Children About How Books Solace Our Heartbreak and Salve Our Existential Loneliness
“Books — like dogs — are among a handful of things on this planet that just want to be loved. And they will love you back, generously and selflessly, requiring very little in return.”
Edward Weston on the Most Fruitful Attitude Toward Life, Art, and Other People
“I feel towards persons as I do towards art, — constructively.”
An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection as Integral to Goodness and How the Beauty of Nature and Art Leavens Our Most Unselfish Impulses
“The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.”
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