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Carlo Pittore (May 14, 1943 – July 17, 2005) born Charles J. Stanley [3] was an American painter, educator, art activist, [4] and publisher, [5] whose primary study, teaching and body of work was figurative art and portrait painting.
Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck. American editions of both the Essays and the Last Essays were published in Philadelphia in 1828.
Charles Stanley Ross is an American literary scholar, academic, and author. He is a professor emeritus of English and comparative literature and a former director of the comparative literature program at Purdue University. [1] Ross's work focuses on British literature.
Stanley Louis Cavell (/ k ə ˈ v ɛ l /; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University .
Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of art. [78] [79] [80] Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. [79] [80] A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation [78] [79] [80] but it is questionable whether such criticism can transcend prevailing ...
The first Rosenbach Fellow was Christopher Morley in 1931 [5] whose lectures were published as Ex Libris Carissimis in 1932. [6] Many of the lectures have been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, including Morley's, which was also part of the anniversary collection of the Press. [7]
US President George W. Bush with several of the 2005 National Medal of Arts awardees. The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (/ ˈ æ l ə s t ər ˈ m æ k ɪ n t aɪər /; born 12 January 1929) is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. [1]