Books & Artworks available from William Eaton
In a provocative collection of essays, William Eaton, the author of Surviving the Twenty-First Century, shares the pleasures of questions, tastes, reading and more visual arts. That we are animals, that is as sure as ever. How savagely we behave toward one another and toward other species and inorganic others. How we rub affectionately up…
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Portrait by William Eaton of a model with much in and on her mind. A few words about Nina Simone and the songwriter (Richard M. Jones), along with an extract from the song: “Trouble in Mind.”
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Colorful portrait of a nicely-hatted woman in an outdoor café. Complete with a short commentary that quotes from the subject of one of Thomas Eakins’s greatest paintings: Miss Alice Kurtz. (The portrait, however, owes more to Degas, Lautrec and nineteenth-century Paris than to Eakins and early twentieth-century Philadelphia.)
Read MoreDrawing made at the Woodstock (NY) Drumming Circle in March 2019, by William Eaton. The drawing is non-figurative; however, earlier, figurative Eaton drawings of the Circle have been on exhibit in the gallery of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. The post includes one of John Cage’s Zen-ish stories, from the Indeterminacy website.
Read More(A personal favorite because of its oddly repetitive, experimental approach.) The list has ten items, plus some variations. Below are a few: 1. How could I have known this is what you wanted—because you never mentioned it? 2. The role of imagination in sensation may be underestimated. The highly sensitive may add imagination to sensation…
Read MoreA parent has a great, if not entirely fulfillable responsibility to prepare his child to survive as well as possible in the social, professional, commercial and psychological jungles in which the child will find herself. And learning must be done step-by-step. Even if a child is ready intellectually to understand a complex moral argument, if…
Read MoreMy sensibility is such that I do not feel that killing a stalk of wheat is somehow less bad for the wheat than killing a cow is for the cow. An argument against my position could be that cows, or crustaceans, feel pain not unlike we do, and that stalks of wheat do not. And…
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