Category: Aesthetic

“At the center of aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century is the semi-mystical doctrine of the symbol. For Romanticism, indeed, the symbol becomes the panacea for all problems. Within it, a whole set of conflicts which were thought to be insoluble in ordinary life—between subject and object, the universal and the particular, the sensuous and the conceptual, material and spiritual, order and spontaneity—could be magically resolved.” —Eagleton, Literary Theory

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Paper Weight

by Katharine Elizabeth Monahan Huntley’

“Elizabeth Brown
Preferred a book
To going on a date.

While friends went out
And danced till dawn,
She stayed up reading late.”
— The Library by Sarah Stewart

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NoHo Artist: @maxbussellart

“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.”

Maurice Sendak

Max Bussell paints in proximity to the Maurice Sendak Elementary & Arts, Communication & Technology Magnet Center, which speaks to the wild rumpus energy of the NoHo Arts District. Write Between the Lines commissioned his vision of a window view. Scroll for the steps and reveal.

Max Bussell: Did I ever tell you I was named after Max from Where the Wild Things Are? I always felt such a connection to the book . . . and that Maurice Sendak passed away on my birthday . . . I found interesting.