Cats and Dogs: Darwin and the Dark History of Domestication
Cats and dogs are major parts of our households. Yet many do not tell their stories. Victorian art began to tell their stories, but then art went abstract and corporate and no content was allowed other than red yellow and blue or grids. Maybe a square or oval now and then. The museums and art galleries, supporting ideology and corporate profits, emptied art of real content, and they are defiantly proud of the Nothing they put on their walls. Cat and dog stories became part of popular culture, while art became empty and elitist. I am restoring cat and dog stories here. I also show artwork I have done about cats and dogs, wild and “domestic”. At the end I discuss the dismal facts of most domestication, why it was important to Darwin and why people have largely failed nature and animals.
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The Moonlight Book of Henry David Thoreau
Follow this link to the PDF about Henry Thoreau’s Moonlight book:
thoreau moonlight 12, 16, 18 final
Marianne North, on her Paintings
Follow this link to the PDF about Marianne North: left click on blue link below then left click on link to pdf below that.
Marilyn Szalay (1950-2012) Drawings
If you want to look at Lynn’s drawings and art, click on the link below.
Link to her drawings
I wrote the section called “About Lynn”:
About Lynn
Babies, Kids and Haiku
Click here to view the entry:
Babies, Kids, Haiku
Historical Delusions in Religions and Modernist Ideologies
Book 1: The Political Nature of the Religions
Book 2 The Paranoid Fictions of Guenon and Followers
Book 3: Persistent Illusions
“Staying Amazed”: Universal Realism and the Science of Seeing
To see this art exhibit as a PDF , follow this by clicking here:
My trilogy, collectively called Persistant Fictions, also contains a few essays on art. I situate art history with a wide cultural and historical context. Some of this is in the following exhibit, but much more is in the essays on Praxiteles: “Misuses of Scholarship in the Making of the Myth” and “Beyond the Dead End of Traditional and (Post)/Modernist Aesthetics”
See also my Blog which contains many essays on my art and that of others. Here:
https://markkoslowspaintingsthoughtandnature.wordpress.com/Staying Amazed- Final
