Thoroughly enjoyed reviewing Michael Pye’s wonderful new book about Renaissance Antwerp, a city “trying to invent itself and the future at the same time” for @Lit_Review
'If modernists sought to redeem madness by owning it, a counter-tendency aimed more simply to eradicate it ... led by a plodding and talentless figurative painter called Adolf Hitler.'
@darwent_charles on how the Nazis took aim at art and insanity.
'Mighty but modest, greatness mixed with grave deference, paternalism combined with penitence: this ... is the image that Ronald Hutton’s remarkable book ... sets out to shatter.'
@AnnaLandmark reviews 'The Making of Oliver Cromwell'.
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Thoroughly enjoyed reviewing Michael Pye’s wonderful new book about Renaissance Antwerp, a city “trying to invent itself and the future at the same time” for @Lit_Review
'If modernists sought to redeem madness by owning it, a counter-tendency aimed more simply to eradicate it ... led by a plodding and talentless figurative painter called Adolf Hitler.'
@darwent_charles on how the Nazis took aim at art and insanity.
http://ow.ly/2Ewl50FJe6Q
'Mighty but modest, greatness mixed with grave deference, paternalism combined with penitence: this ... is the image that Ronald Hutton’s remarkable book ... sets out to shatter.'
@AnnaLandmark reviews 'The Making of Oliver Cromwell'.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/young-ironsides