March/April 2009
In This Issue March/April 2009
Thieves of Pleasure
A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.
By Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner
Volume 30, Issue 2
San Baudelio de Berlanga, circa 1000.Jerilynn D. Dodds
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Features
British Modernism’s Many Manners
The Bloomsbury group broke ties with Victorian ideals and reimagined British art.
By Steve MoyerThe Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle
A young historian pours forth The French Revolution, blood and all, inspiring a generation of Victorian writers.
By Meredith HindleyA Poet’s Inner Eye
A literary scholar looks for Elizabeth Bishop in the fishing waters of Florida.
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Departments
Curio
The White Pelican
Laurent Verdin Sr. of Crooked Bayou Blue spent a lifetime carving the birds of his native Louisiana. Most of the thousands he made were functional duck decoys for hunters.
By Steve MoyerLetters Home
From Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters, a volume by the editors of the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project, which has been supported by NEH.
How to Lose Weight and Gain Power
From The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of a Castilian Culture, © 2008 by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale.
Recluse At Court
From a chapter on art in the Yuan Dynasty, written by James Cahill in the NEH-supported 1997 reference work Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press).
Conversation
Renaissance Scholar at Work
Humanities discusses art and the achievements of the Endowment with outgoing Chairman, Bruce Cole.
Impertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Philip Nel
On the man behind the Grinch.
In Focus
EdNote
Editor's Note, March/April 2009
“You know what work is—if you're / old enough to read this you know what / work is,” wrote Philip Levine, in a poem about lining up with other men, outside, looking for work.
By David Skinner
