This painting depicts the young actress Ellen Terry reaching out to the opulent but scentless camellia and discarding the common, but fragrant violets in her hand. National Portrait Gallery, Lon Was ...

That there has been a direct relationship between religion and the arts is evident from primitive times. Men have used statuary, chants, paintings, and places of worship to objectify and house his ...

CSIS dean Dr Yousuf al-Siddiqi speaking at the conference. An international conference on the topic, “The Aesthetic Phenomenon in Islam”, organised by Qatar University College of Sharia and Islamic ...

What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but ...

Writer of children’s fiction Cao Wenxuan became last April the first Chinese author ever to be awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award, regarded as the Nobel Prize of children’s literature, at the ...

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The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once wryly remarked that he prefers “the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater.” Frequently taken out of context, Kiarostami’s ...

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The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once wryly remarked that he prefers "the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater." Frequently taken out of context, Kiarostami's ...