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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion

perspective to create flattened

Horacio Silva is a writer and editor for the world’s most prestigious publications

infusing stark abstract forms with a beguiling tropical hedonism that reshaped Brazil’s identity in the popular imagination and mesmerized architects around the globe

and his inclusion in the Nazis’ infamous “degenerate art” exhibition in 1937

Taschen El Greco 8 We Tell Ourselves Stories inThroughout his career, as he progressed from Crete to Venice, to Rome and ultimately Toledo, Spain, The Greek stood apart from his peers, merging different Western art traditions to create a unique pictorial language. El Grecos single minded style rejected naturalism and rejected accessibility. Works such as The Disrobing of Christ (157779), The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (158688), and The Vision of St John (160814) reveal elongated, twisted