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Index
Myths, History, and Art
About the Author
Copyright Information ©
Acknowledgment
Preface
Introduction
1
Disguising Cruelty as a Political Message
i. Marat: The Real-Life Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
ii. The Last Portrait: An Example of Art as Power
2
Portraying an Inwardly Flawed Artist as a Pious Man
i. Bernini’s Character: The Shadows Behind the Light
ii. The Rapture of Saint Teresa
3
Portraying the Queen of France as a Woman of the People
i. A Calm, Kind Woman with a Strong Sense of Mission
ii. The Painting of 1787 of the Queen with Her Children
4
Accentuating Beauty to Hide Foul Character
i. The Leighton Beauty and Its Antecedents
ii. Erotic Versus Attractive Feminine Beauty and the Element of Deception
5
Deceiving the Eye by Exploiting the Rules of Perspective: An Artistic Miracle
6
Who Is Good and Who Is Bad?
i. The 3rd of May 1808
ii. An Earlier but Crude Forerunner
7
Projecting a Brutal God as a Romantic Figure
i. The Uncertainties of a Great Work of Art
Where Did Dionysus Come From?
Who Were His Parents?
The God’s Sexuality
A Modern Simplification of the Myth: Does It Beautify or Deceive Us?
8
Depicting or Promoting Illicit Sex?
9
Unrequited Love: Literature’s First Recorded Instance
i. Unrequited Love: An Unexplored Theme in Ancient Greek Literature
ii. Homer Properly Read
iii. Homer Misrepresented by Art
10
Art Softening Cruel Greek Myths: An Essay in Imagination
i. Preliminary Observations on Two Interrelated Canvases
ii. The Principal Painting
iii. The Painting Which Was Never Delivered to the King Revives the Actaeon Controversy
11
A Poet’s and an Artist’s View on Loneliness
i. Life of an Unusual Artist
Trying to Do Good and Forced by Nature to Do Harm
ii. Postscript. Serov and Vrubel: A Sketch of Two Friends in Parallel
12
State Defined Deception: A New Dogma for the Arts
i. Preliminary Thoughts on the Russian Approach
ii. Another Form of Evil
iii. Soviet Literature from the Early 1930s Onwards
iv. The way pressure was applied
v. The Uncompromising Writers
vi. Pictorial Art Under the Influence of Soviet Realism
vii. Graphic Art in Posters
Example One
Example Two
Example Three
Example Four
viii. An Attempt to End with an Objective Postscript
Concluding Thoughts
i. Character, Character and Only Character
ii. Is the Deception Obvious of Itself or Does It Need Supporting Facts?
iii. The Motives Behind the Deception
iv. Signs that the Soviet Desire to Control Thought May Be Reappearing in Muted Forms in the West
Epilogue
Character Shadows, Flaws and Deviations
Letting the Mind Wander Beyond What It Has Seen and Read Thus Far
Preferences
Appendix on Some Portraits of Anna Akhmatova Related to Ideas Expressed in the Text About Her Life, Looks and Temperament
Books and Articles Quoted in This Book
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