Tag: Spring 2012
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Stendhal syndrome, a hazard of tourism
Michelangelo’s tomb Basilica of Santa Croce Florence, Italy Travel may well broaden the mind, but it may also affect it in some strange ways; and tourists have developed a variety of symptoms when overwhelmed by the place they had always dreamed to visit. Some merely became dizzy, had palpitations, or broke into a profuse sweat.…
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Beyond: The art of Tim Lowly
Tim Lowly Chicago, Illinois, USA I make paintings: trying to get out of the way. Most of the work that I have done in the last 30 years has been realistic towards the goal of engaging the viewer. That said, this “clarity of representation” has generally featured subjects that I regard with wonder. And as…
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Always with us – Desaparecidos
Irene Martinez, MD Chicago, Illinois, USA Desaparecidos1 is a series of drawings and photographs depicting part of my own and other people’s experiences during the Argentine military dictatorship in the nineteen-seventies. I found that words were not enough to express what my family, the Argentinean people, and I experienced during the dictatorship. After being…
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The death of Alexander the Great
George DuneaEditor-in-Chief Possibly the greatest warrior of all times, Alexander of Macedon died aged 32 at Babylon. Within 12 years he had overthrown an empire that had lasted two centuries, conquered the greater part of the Eastern world, became worshiped as a god, and forever changed the course of history.1 Fair and light skinned, and…
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Eumenes: Even horses need to take regular exercise
“During this siege, as he [Eumenes] perceived that the men, cooped up in such narrow limits and eating their food without exercise, would lose health, and also that the horses would lose condition if they never used their limbs. . . . He arranged the largest room in the fort . . .as a place…