Terry Eagleton on Tragedy as a political institution
‘Sorrow and despair constitute a lingua franca. Yet tragedy in the artistic sense is a highly specific affair.’…
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A Closer Look at Art | Techniques of Painting
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A Closer Look at Art | Landscape
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A Closer Look at Art | Christian Religious Painting
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A Closer Look at Art | Mythological Painting
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Blooming Flowers by Kasia Boddy – An Extract
The fact that the daisy grows in so many places — native to western, central and northern Europe,…
Conversations: Colonialism
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
A Closer Look At Art | Portraiture
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Conversations: Understanding Protest
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
Conversations: To Describe a Life by Darby English
A quotation from the French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil is the first thing the reader encounters…
Conversations: History of Slavery
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
‘Working Mothers’ – An extract from Bread Winner by Emma Griffin
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
The Field of Cloth of Gold – 500th anniversary
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: Zeus (and Apollo)
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: You!
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…