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# Further Reading
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2022/12/26/further-reading-88/
- Published: 2022-12-26T09:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-15T20:08:19.000Z
- Description: Between abstraction and representation. Life. Death. This moment of June. Revisiting Art nouveau. Rethinking Alzheimer's. The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt. Piet Mondriaan. Claude Shannon. Bruno Latour. And more.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Blog, Further Reading

The mysteries of [Mondrian](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/03/the-mysteries-of-mondrian-hans-janssen-piet-mondrian-a-life?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Life, Death, [This Moment of June](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/life-death-this-moment-of-june-mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Between abstraction and representation](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/24/between-abstraction-and-representation-jed-perl/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com). Artists today think they no longer have to choose between two opposed artistic traditions. But what is being lost in this eclecticism?

Steve Woolgar, co-author of *Laboratory Life* (1979) [remembers](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03796-0?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) Bruno Latour (1947-2022).

How [Claude Shannon](https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) invented the future.

What causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists are [rethinking](https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-alzheimers-scientists-are-rethinking-the-answer-20221208/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) the answer.

The [Tanzmasken](https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tanzmasken?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924).

Hal Foster [reviews](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n23/hal-foster/not-window-not-wall?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) *If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present* by T.J. Clark.

Short profile of American artist [Christopher Wool](https://www.numero.com/en/art/christopher-wool-xavier-hufkens-bruxelles-numero-art?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Jennifer Egan and Vauhini Vara’s [new novels](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/24/total-recall-immortal-king-rao-candy-house/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) both delineate worlds just slightly out of true with the one we know.

[Recent books and exhibitions](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/whips-and-vines-art-nouveau-martin-filler/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) reveal that behind its undulating lines and swirling excesses, Art Nouveau was far more complex and nuanced than we once believed.

For vast stretches of *À la recherche du temps perdu*, there is scarcely a page unadorned by [vibrant colour](https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/prousts-pinks?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

Alexis de Tocqueville left France to study the American prison system and returned with the [material](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/a-great-democratic-revolution-alexis-de-tocqueville/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) that would become “Democracy in America”.

"I remember reading Toni Morrison’s early novels as a kind of bliss. Now, I am afraid to open them in case their brilliance no longer holds, in case I am too restless and ruined to see it anymore." [Eyes that bite](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n01/anne-enright/eyes-that-bite?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) by Anne Enright.

"Like many remarks in Cormac McCarthy’s books, delivered in apparent jest or mock solemnity, the character’s words are part of a larger thematic schema that equates language with the destructive power of fire and the bomb." [Cormac McCarthy's powers](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n01/christian-lorentzen/i-was-there-to-inflict-death?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).

[Review](https://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2022-12/melancolia-erzaehlungen-mircea-cartarescu-melancholie-phantasie-weltschmerz?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) of the latest short story collection by Mircea Cărtărescu.

The year in: [mathematics](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-math-breakthroughs-in-2022-20221222/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), [physics](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-discoveries-in-physics-in-2022-20221222/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com), [computer science](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-discoveries-in-computer-science-in-2022-20221221/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com) and [biology](https://www.quantamagazine.org/major-biology-discoveries-from-2022-20221221/?ref=ivarhagendoorn.com).