Its archive, from October 2005 to the present, is a treasure troveĪnd a delight to peruse, with surprises of both word and image at every turn. This pioneering website by Leo Wong has continued posting new material beyond Barzun's centenary year. * Barzun 100: Celebrating Jacques Barzun. * " Yours, Jacques." An account of Aristos co-editors' brief meeting with Jacques Barzun in 1988, and of the epistolary friendship that ensued. Click on full screen icon, adjust volume control, and slide the time bar to (or just before) 2:38:39. and so I not only remedied my ignorance of the work of Ayn Rand but I admire a great part (not all) of her theory of art.īarzun's comment can be heard at the C-SPAN Video Library. I was privileged to see some advance pages of Her theory of art has been the subject of a large and very interesting and thorough book by Louis Torres. Not read her work, though I know a good deal about one aspect of it. * Book TV Remarks on What Art Is (May 6, 2001): Asked by a viewer (during the last half hour of his "In Depth" interview on Book TV ) what he thought of Ayn Rand's work, Barzun Comments on Aristos and What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand, as well as on the arts and esthetics. In November 2007, and has been expanded since then. This listing of online materials related to the life and work of cultural historian Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) was created in honor of his centenary A Jacques Barzun Compendium Select Links to Online References
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