Word: gilson
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...Wood has pointed out that the decline of the Bible's authority in the 19th century coincided with the rise of the modern novel. Elie reminds a wistful 21st century reader how urgently books used to matter. Books--by Dante, Blake, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, Jacques Maritain, Etienne-Henry Gilson and hundreds of others--served as spiritual guides for Elie's quartet in their journeys, shaping them in a life-or-death way that one senses would not be possible...
This is the question posed by Anne Gilson Haney’s exhibit “Homecooking,” which recently ended at Crosstown Gallery in Boston. The most visually exciting pieces in this exhibit grapple with these questions by reducing familiar household objects to the fundamental basics of color, shape and line. Most of Haney’s works are mixed medium—combining acrylic piant with collage items such as newspaper, wallpaper and fabric. Haney’s style is loose and employs warm vivid colors that are applied directly to the surface to create...