Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

3/16/2010

Biography celebrates Surrealists' enigmatic muse | Books | The Guardian

She was the quiet woman of Surrealist Paris and an enigmatic muse that inspired some of the greatest art of the 1930s and 40s.
But Nusch Éluard, a beautiful model who sat for Picasso and posed for Man Ray, has been largely overlooked by history since her death in 1946.
Biography celebrates Surrealists' enigmatic muse | Books | The Guardian
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5/23/2008

Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire

I don't have an agenda here, but if you have the time check out this talk given at Berkeley by Michael Pollan. Very well researched and presented.

Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire. Also, a transcript (pdf).