You’ve probably seen him even if you haven’t noticed. This book explores the historical, artistic, architectural and spiritual history of this pre-Christian image that has stubbornly hung on with something akin to ubiquity. The “foliate head” turns up in even the most religious of settings, from Gothic cathedrals to the title pages of Martin Luther’s writings. The book can veer a little toward the New Agey at times, but that hazard seems inherent in the subject matter. The profuse photography easily makes up for any flaws, and as an investigation into a true ancient mystery, the book fascinates.

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I also visited Inventing Abstraction at MOMA, though the Mouse Museum was my main destination. My fuse is longer than some, and I planned to walk through the show and enjoy some objects without fretting. But the show’s studied isolation of the work and the artists was stunning. Even if the offending title were mitigated by calling it “Abstraction Re-Invented” or “A New Abstraction” or “Inventing Modern Abstraction,” it would not remedy the curation’s reductionism.

I haven’t read the catalog so maybe it mounts a defense, but whatever justification could be applied, the isolation does a disservice to all, the modernist artists included. How can you appreciate the distinctiveness of their creativity if you don’t see it in context with the abstraction that came before? The falseness is even more aggravated by the absence of centuries worth of fabulous abstract art. History and fairness aside, including other threads of abstraction, including European, would have made the show a far richer and meaningful experience.

I had not heard of Sekaer until I saw this book. He was a student of Berenice Abbott and a pal — and sometime photographing companion — of Walker Evans. If you like those two you’ll most likely find his work quite interesting.

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Pretty scary stuff about the global financial crisis, and great insights and anecdotes. I’m not sure I’m as convinced as Lewis that each country’s unique flavor of crisis can be attributed to each country’s unique national character, but it’s an interesting perspective.

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Forty+ years since I last read it and I still skip many verses of the songs and chants. But otherwise still great.

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Caro continues to overwrite, but his obsessive love of detail not surprisingly makes for a fine-grained story, a mark of great history writing and sufficient payoff for those who have the patience to slog through it all. In this volume he also seems to moderate the distaste for his subject that has been evident throughout the biography. This covers the period, after all, where Johnson built a foundation of greatness as he rose above his predecessor’s accomplishments by passing the first strong civil rights law since Reconstruction and launching the war on poverty. I’m guessing the sympathy will wear thin as the Vietnam War escalates, but at least Caro is framing the story as tragedy.

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Pictures of old buildings. Interesting historical tidbits. What’s not to like?

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If you lived within the orbit of Tribune Co. or the L.A. Times within the last decade, this book will be interesting to you. It’s a quick read with a number of fine anecdotes. That means it’s mostly inside baseball, so if you’re looking for great insights into the fate of journalism in the (sadly likely) post-newspaper age, you’ll want to look elsewhere. O’Shea throws in a handful of mea culpas but little reflection on how the narrow hard-news definition of journalism he espouses might be a contributor to its decline right along with the Internet and the corporate barbarians who are on the receiving end of his hand-wringing.

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Steven Pinker’s core argument is compelling and important. Contrary to the nearly universal assumption that things have never been worse, human society is actually becoming less violent. As horrifically as the wars and genocides of the last 100 years loom in our consciousness, the long view of history demonstrates that life for many of our ancestors was far nastier. Genocide, rape and enslavement were routine, even heroic, aspects of war. Interpersonal violence was ubiquitous. Human rights as a concept was unknown. Slavery and the subjugation of women were simply facts of life.

Having marshaled a massive array of evidence, Pinker demonstrates across one dimension after another that we’ve never been kinder and gentler than we are now — war, crime, domestic violence, attitudes toward children and animals, and on and on. In fact, he can’t stop himself from piling on the evidence, and at 800-plus pages the book will be unfinishable for many readers, becoming grueling well before they give up altogether.

A more distressing flaw is that in his enthusiasm to demonstrate how nearly every day in nearly every way we’re getting better and better, Pinker departs from the merely factual and pursues arguments that seem obtrusively like personal hobby horses. These include making the case for vegetarianism as an index of human progress as well as a critique of 1960s American culture that is dubious both in the blame it places on rock stars and their fans for dragging civilization backward and in the importance it accords to what in historical perspective was a trivial sideshow.

When he sticks to facts however, he demonstrates conclusively that in far more ways than we’re willing to give ourselves credit for, life on this planet has never been better. Now, if we can only develop the economic and political will to preserve that way of life. In this, Pinker’s optimism wavers a bit, and rightly so. But arguably an understanding that what we’ve collectively created really isn’t so bad should strengthen our resolve to do what it takes to keep the engines of progress running.

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