101 Articles tagged with: Art and Literature

• Boredom

  Editor’s Note:  Daoly’s 2018 autobiographical novel  In the Pursuit of Truth,   published by  Liberty Hill Press, is part of The Writers Series, our popular series that showcases novels influenced by or reminiscent of … Read Article

• Justice, Inc.

  Editor's Note: The following is chapter one of J.P. Medved’s novel Justice, Inc. Former Army Ranger Eric Ikenna is the CEO of the powerful, private military corporation, Justice Incorporated. But when his company successfully topples the governm… Read Article

• THE LAST DECADE: My Glorious Failures

  Try again. Fail again. Try better. – Samuel Beckett

  We all love to announce publicly our most glorious moments and accomplishments. However, a life best lived is a hero’s journey, a journey in which we must overcome great obstacles and… Read Article

• Icarus: How Visual Artists Such as Myself and Bryan Larsen Steal, Borrow, and Originate

  Myths, legends, and stories infiltrate our collective and individual consciousness, and the same holds true for the visual arts. The myth of Icarus, who flew too high then crashed and burned, was mentioned by Apollodorus around 150 BC and has sinc… Read Article

• Smacking Down Postmodern Art

  It is rare in our contemporary postmodern culture that its representatives get a smack down. But that is what happened with the Tyler Shields' photoshoot with Kathy Griffin holding a realistically-rendered decapitated head of Donald Trump… Read Article

• Of Nudes and Knowledge

  One of the more poetic events in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is when the protagonist, Howard Roark comes to watch Dominique posing naked for Mallory's marble sculpture. The sculpture is of the human spirit destined for the Stoddard Temple. The th… Read Article

• Art and Judgment

  Over three decades ago, in 1982, I booked a private telephone consultation with an Objectivist philosopher (associated now with the Ayn Rand Institute) on reading The Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand’s classic non-fiction work on aesthetics.

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• Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Climax of Romanticism

  There was a time, when Ayn Rand’s new essays came out monthly and, as often as not, mentioned or enthusiastically recommended some writer or specific book, that her readers immediately tracked down every work by that writer. Mickey Spillane, Don… Read Article

• The Talent Myth

  While friends and family often compliment my artwork by commenting on my natural talent, people in the artistic community generally avoid that type of praise. Instead, peers evaluate my work by simply stating how good it is, which better credits t… Read Article

• Five Ayn Rand Questions for John J. Enright

  1) Tell us who you are and what you do.

  I'm an IT consultant, playwright, and poet. In 2015, my comedy, "O'Brien & O'Brian", was part of the New York International Fringe Festival. I also keep up my "Rhyme of the Day" blog, which usually cons… Read Article

• Five Ayn Rand Questions for Michael Newberry

  1) Tell us who you are and what you do.

  I grew up on the beach and have been an artist ever since. I’m a figurative artist and my work explores light, love, and appreciation.

  2) When did you first become familiar with Ayn Rand and her work… Read Article

• “Man In the Place of the Gods: What Cities Mean.”

  AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR FREDERICK COOKINHAM ON HIS NEW BOOK Q: Tell us what your new book is about. What’s your thesis of Man in the Place of the Gods: What Cities Mean. A: It’s hard to say, because the book is so interdisciplinary. The short… Read Article

• On The Fountainhead’s Anniversary, Reflect on Creators

  Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead was published 73 years ago, May 7, 1943. It became a best-seller, and then a classic of 20th century American literature. In 1993, The Atlas Society held a 50th anniversary celebration with talks by founder Davi… Read Article

• On Nabokov’s Birthday, Lessons in Liberty

  April 22 marks the birthday of Vladimir Nabokov. Born in 1899, this writer had similarities to as well as differences from fellow Russian Ayn Rand. But Rand fans will find that his insights on individualism and liberty complemented hers.

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• Understanding and Appreciating Art

  Michelle Marder Kamhi’s new book Who Says That’s Art? presents a “commonsense view” of the visual arts that owes much to Ayn Rand’s understanding of the essential nature of art. Yet Rand’s idiosyncratic pronouncements about particular… Read Article

• Romanticist Writers Panel

  Atlas Summit 2015 - Four fiction writers who write in the Romanticist tradition form a discussion panel to narrate their personal writing journeys and take questions from the audience.

  The writers are poet and novelist Walter Donway, poe… Read Article

• "Selling" Ayn Rand's Ideas

  Atlas Summit 2015 -- In the decade and a half since the publication of What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand, Louis Torres and Michelle Kamhi have been actively engaged in promoting the basic principles of Ayn Rand’s theory of art in the … Read Article

• "The Literary Art of Ayn Rand" now in ebook form

  We're pleased to announce that we have published a second edition of The Literary Art of Ayn Rand. The first edition of Literary Art grew out of a set of remarkable lectures delivered at our annual conference. This second edition is supplemente… Read Article

• Postmodernism in the classroom

  Postmodernism became the leading intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. It has replaced modernism, the philosophy of the Enlightenment. For modernism’s principles of objective reality, reason, and individualism, it has substitute… Read Article

• The Search for Romanticism in Hollywood

  ATLAS SUMMIT 2014 -- Ayn Rand wrote the obituary of literary romanticism in 1965. Nevertheless, romanticism has survived on screen, for Hollywood’s paradox is that romanticist plots perform better at the box-office. Screenwriting teachers and… Read Article