Articles by TheIncensedProfessor
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As angry as he is erudite, the gentleman known only as The Incensed Professor steps onto the PluggedInto stage with a few bones to pick and minds to expand.
My disenchantment with American education, including the Universities over which I once swooned, is that, like the Church at Ephesus, Universities (at least in this country) have left their “first love.” In the Academy’s attempt to lure
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September 20, 2018 // 0 Comments
Professor C. S. Lewis indicated we no longer burn witches because we no longer believe they can harm us. The corollary must be that we believe wholeheartedly in science because we have seen how much it can benefit us. The benefits of science
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September 9, 2018 // 0 Comments
In considering the magnificent oeuvre of Peter Carl Fabergé, I may have given the impression that his creations are my favorite goldsmith’s work. In Western Art, that is probably true. Though Fabergé did Slavic pieces, he is really in
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September 3, 2018 // 0 Comments
If you can find something, like antique Japanese scroll paintings, for instance, that can still be acquired fairly cheaply (well, at least until recently – Westerners are not used to rolling up and switching out our paintings), and you genuinely
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August 8, 2018 // 0 Comments
The operative word in “Art Market” isn’t “Art.” I learned this many years ago, and indeed some of the more modern stuff that sells for a fortune does not seem at all marketable to me, but rich punters and fancy corporations
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July 25, 2018 // 0 Comments
The important thing to recognize about Shakespeare scholarship is that it is an industry. Scholars know that they gain fame and academic clout by “discovering” things in Shakespeare. If they edit textbooks, they even make money, which I,
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July 16, 2018 // 0 Comments
The thing about Japanese and Chinese paintings is that they are more like Western water colors than they are like painting in oil. Once the brush touches the paper, there is almost nothing that can be done to correct it. In oils, we often find
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March 14, 2018 // 0 Comments
Heian Japan is a fascinating period in world history, not because of its politics (the Fujiwara family had more power than the Emperor), but because it was an age in which aesthetics were paramount. At the Heian Court, around the year 1000 A.D.,
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March 3, 2018 // 0 Comments
A Man for All Seasons, which was for a long time my favorite movie, has for a number of years been challenged by Babette’s Feast. Before that it may have been The Graduate, though that was the occasion of my most serious blunder in
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February 15, 2018 // 0 Comments
