My dad wrote a novel called Mount Wonder. It’s a romance based on his personal experiences in the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at KU in the 70’s. Given how influential that program has been for American Catholicism and with all of the issues in academia today, and because it’s a totally wild adventure, you’ll enjoy […]
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Mount Wonder – a novel inspired by IHP
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Dec 2022
By PB
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Get to know Richard T. Scott
17
Feb 2013
By PB
I stumbled across Richard T. Scott a couple years ago, and I have been following him ever since. Not only is his work skillful, thought-provoking, and beautiful, but the artist himself is fascinating, witty, and intelligent. His vocabulary is Aristotelian, he references the greats of art history and is familiar with philosophy (in fact he is […]
Category: Aesthetics, Art, beauty, Painting, Paris, Philosophy, Richard T. Scott
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Tags: Culture, Visual Art
Another Suggestion
13
Oct 2012
By Chris Petter
Dappled Things, a little magazine that I think showed up on this blog when Andrew Smith’s work was in it, features another artist that might be familiar. It’s worth a look.
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