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Claim: social networks vs creativity in producing success
"...the research paper “The Art of Fame” maps the social networks of early 20th century abstract artists like Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky. It found that the artists’ networks were more likely the reason that they succeeded professionally “Contrary to conventional literature, there was no statistical support for the relationship between an artist’s creativity and the fame they ultimately achieved,” the paper states. “Those individuals who possessed a diverse set of personal friends and professional contacts from different industries (an artist in a ‘cosmopolitan’ network position) were statistically more likely to become famous.” First link: https://www.highsnobiety.com/ Refers to this link: https://www.artsy.net
"Implying the others"
"Jean Rousset’s critical scope transcends the boundary of the word. For him ballet, painting, and the lyric, as well as sculpture, tragicomedy, and architecture, are analogous, even interchangeable products of successive, radically different zeitgeists. Shared by all the arts of a given period are repertories of themes, technical devices, and stylistic procedures, each implying the others." From The Knot of Artifice, by David Lee Rubin, page 4
First Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Calvary - US Civil War
Web site on this East Tennessee Volunteer Calvary fighting force for the Union Site: http://1sttennesseecavalry.com/ (I made this page.) Related Civil War history subject I'd like to work on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
It was 10 degrees in Richmond VA last week
Last week was a hard, cold freeze with crunchy dead grass and the local stray cats pretty distressed by the temps. This week its 70˚ and the grass is greening up and other plants are showing some interest in the sun.
Julie Adams
JULIE ADAMS 1930 - 2019 I made this drawing (using my Note4 phone) from watching John Wayne and Julie Adams in "McQ" a 1974 cop movie. Adams isn't in the film a lot, but she always stands out to me, whatever film or TV show she was in, because she was raised in Arkansas, where I was born, and also because she's the girl that the Creature from the Black Lagoon had a crush on in 1954.
OZARKS
The New Yorker has a “Photo Portrait” essay on the Ozarks up at [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-portrait-of-life-secluded-in-the-ozark-mountains] The piece refers mainly to Jasper, Arkansas.