September 28, 2009
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Annals of Aesthetics, continued:
Symmetry
for GermanySee Annals of Aesthetics,
January 13, 2009,
which features the following
example of modernism:
… and for readers of
the Sunday New York Times …
The funereal heart illustrates a review of a book titled Her Fearful Symmetry. The book is set, partly, in London’s Highgate Cemetery.The book’s author, Audrey Niffenegger, has stated that her title refers to “the doubling and twinning and opposites” that are “essential to the theme and structure of the book.” For examples of doubling, twinning, and opposites that I prefer to Niffenegger’s, see this journal’s Saturday and Sunday entries.
Fans of the New York Times‘s cultural coverage may prefer Niffenegger’s own art work. They may also enjoy images from the weekend’s London Art Book Fair that suggested the rather different sort of book in Saturday’s entry.
