by Charles Cameron | Mar 28, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — and a tradition of natural philosophy profound enough to include Francis of Assisi ] . It’s a small point, perhaps, but M. Anthony Mills had a piece in The New Atlantis last Fall titled Is Pope Francis Anti-Modern? — which I...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 25, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — something’s closing in on us ] . ** Sources: Adam Elkus, I was not kidding Plain Dealer, Akron Art Museum rescues M.C. Escher from his reputation
by Charles Cameron | Mar 7, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on abuses of word and image ] . Exhinit A, The Four Horsies of the ‘Pocapypse: Meet Calamity (Pestilence), Raven (Famine), Clash (War) and Ghost (Death). They’re the Four Horsies of the ‘Pocalypse (or at least they would be if...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 28, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — iconoclasm ancient & modern ] . ** Ancient: Eamonn Duffy‘s “prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 2, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Robert Dear, a crazed? apocalyptic? Christian? terorist? — & what of William Blake? ] . John Horgan commenting on Robert Dear: ** Apocalyptic? Here’s Richard Faussett, For Robert Dear, Religion and Rage Before Planned...