Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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Books
‘Walk with Gandhi’ on the 150th anniversary of his birth
October 8, 2019This book is a gleaming, wonderfully enriching pleasure in terms of aesthetic appreciation and engaging the mind.
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Culture
Rembrandt: His times and his art on the 350th anniversary of his death
October 3, 2019Rembrandt anticipated a democratic culture that was yet to come. He was the first to place modern knowledge, understanding, and therefore doubt, at the center of his art.
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Arts
Peasant Bruegel: An appreciation of the Dutch realist painter
September 5, 2019His art represents the early stages, the progressive, indeed revolutionary, element of bourgeois realism.
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Culture
Poetry selections for the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
August 16, 2019Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lifetime was defined by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and severe political repression in England and elsewhere in Europe.
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Culture
The anti-fascist art of Otto Dix and George Grosz
July 11, 2019Almost 80 years after the outbreak of World War II, it is worth remembering two German artists whose work was dedicated to the fight against fascism and war.
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Culture
The Siege of Leningrad: Shostakovich and the airbrushing of history
June 26, 2019The Siege of Leningrad was recorded not only in books, but also in music.
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Culture
The working class becomes subject in the art of Gustave Courbet
June 5, 2019Gustave Courbet, born 200 years ago, was one of the first artists to show laborers at work so forcefully and honestly.
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Remembering Pete Seeger on his 100th birthday
May 2, 2019Military intelligence deemed Pete unfit for sensitive positions due to his “Communistic sympathies" and "unsatisfactory relations with landlords."
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