For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...

Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice - A Treatise Critique and Call to Action

J. F. Martel

Received opinion holds that art is culturally-determined and relative. We are told that whether a picture, a movement, a text, or sound qualifies as a 'work of art' largely depends on social attitudes and convention. Drawing on examples ranging from Paleolithic cave paintings to modern pop music and bui...