Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Art on Art

In no particular order, a living list of my favorites:

    FICTION

If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (particularly Chapter 8), Calvino.

Josephine the Singer, or, the Mouse Folk, Kafka.

    ESSAYS

The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke.

The Origin of the Work of Art, Heidegger.

"The Storyteller", Benjamin.

    MUSIC

Lempicka (particularly "I Will Paint Her" and "Just This Way"), Gould + Kreitzer.

"Finishing the Hat", Sondheim.

"Now Feels Bigger than the Past", Stevens.

    OTHER WORKS

Faust, "2. Prelude on the Stage", Goethe.

Ramon Subercaseaux in a Gondola, Singer Sargent.


If you'd leave your favorites in the comments, I'd love to seek them out. I adore art on art.

No comments:

Post a Comment

On "It's Coming Down"

     This song was, in small part, inspired by "The Western Wall" . That number culminates in full-throated rock counterpoint, com...