New Book Plato's Visual Utopia by Daniel Heller The new book, Plato's Visual Utopia by author Daniel Heller explores the Republic of Plato. This is the first and only book to date that metaphorically analyze and illustrate Plato's Republic with visual artwork (high end illustrations). A hardcover Limited Edition [...]
Arts 101 what are the arts? Arts 101: The word "art" and its' many extensions has countless meanings, countless definitions, and countless interpretations. So much has been written on the subject of art that today, it is hard albeit quite impossible to definitively define the term. This post is [...]
Narrative Art "Narrative art" is visual art that tells a story. It manifests itself in every kind of medium, in every culture. In every form that you can imagine". So writes Don Bacigalupi, on the front page of the Lucas Museum website. Some have contended that "Narrative" art is [...]
Dystopia Utopia duality Dystopia according to Wikipedia is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. And it is translated as "not-good place", an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best-known work, "Utopia", published 1516, [...]
Dystopian art Dystopian art - The word Dystopia is defined by Wikipedia as "an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one". Merriam Webster dictionary defines it as "an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives". [...]
