The Birth of Venus and Other Beauties
by Richard Kuslanin 🎨 Art & Illustration
The Birth of Venus and Other Beauties
About the Substack
Writings and a podcast on literature, poetry, theater, music and the fine arts. An exploration of the artistic ideal. You'll not find postmodernist "ideas" here, unless they are the occasional victims of defenestration.
About Richard Kuslan
Richard Kuslan is a reader and writer. "Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and full of invention. Taunt him with the licence of ink...About it!" -- Sir Toby Belch, TWELFTH NIGHT, III, i.
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