Michael Lobel Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Today I learned that, while having his portrait painted in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt complained of a headache & collapsed. After he died later that day from a stroke, artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff stopped work on the picture, now known as "FDR's Unfinished Portrait" https://t.co/6ray6k2GSO

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Loved reading this @caityweaver piece @NYTmag on her visit to anechoic chamber (soundless room), & would add just one historical footnote: in 1951 composer John Cage made a similar visit to an anechoic chamber at Harvard, which radically shaped his thinking about sound & silence https://t.co/2qSjop6325 https://t.co/qtRCP0kfT2

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Two 20th-century cultural icons, writer & activist James Baldwin & photographer Richard Avedon, who was born #OnThisDay in 1923. They were close friends at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx & later collaborated on searing examination of American identity, "Nothing Personal" https://t.co/kNTiuPI61T

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Another indication of the theoretical intent of Goodman's picture is that it gives central place to an image of critic John Ruskin, who was deeply engaged with photography's effect on art making. More info on the painting can be found here: https://t.co/8wxvObxfup https://t.co/hCSqu59Sod

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Canto II: The Descent into Hell, one of artist Robert Rauschenberg's illustrations for Dante's Inferno https://t.co/qUmfSEMQZY

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An image of Pomona, Roman goddess of abundance, by famed Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, born #OnThisDay in 1815. Cameron's model is none other than Alice Liddell, who as a child had inspired Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" @metmuseum https://t.co/lvrWmd6fhf https://t.co/4DCbfYC2mw

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"Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before," a haunting scene @metmuseum by 19th-century painter Charles Caleb Ward showing impact of popular culture in outsized posters for P.T. Barnum's circus https://t.co/X26JkhxLIY https://t.co/zSdIHXNQdZ

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"The unreasoning mind, driven by the doubt-free absolutes of faith, could not be convinced by reason." -Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

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Check it out: costumed kid in Philip Guston's 1942 Halloween painting @artsmia, complete with pointy ears & tail, looks like oddly prescient model for Max in Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are"—a book published two decades later. Could Sendak have known of the painting? https://t.co/vbhHbGn5xj

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@ykomska Also, in terms of biography: Marie Darrieussecq's "Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker." An absolutely luminous book