Founded and edited by John Adams, Barzun's bibliographer, this website aims to compile a complete listing of Barzun's work. Includes tributes by friends and admirers (among them Aristos co-editors Louis Torres and Michelle Kamhi ) and much more of interest. 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 As useful as those now out-of-fashion copybook exercises.A Jacques Barzun Compendium Select Links to Online References His own prose is generally competent, often urbane. As a text, however, or even as a desk-top standby, this has only limited value: Barzun's informal organization and conversational tone preclude easy reference to comments on any specific problem of style or word usage. Most of them are In fact little known and quite striking. Barzun includes many examples of literary infelicity which the reader is supposed to rework (though his failure to provide ""solutions"" or hints tends to undermine their usefulness) and gives several examples of what he considers to be good prose. Barzun covers the standard topics-diction, sentence structure, tone, precision of meaning, and composition-and adds a salutary chapter on the inevitable revisions. This primer in rhetoric is aimed at the same audience, i.e., those tyros, chiefly academics, who write in hope of publication. Over the years, Jacques Barzun, University Professor of History at Columbia, has had to help many students recast their work into readable prose.
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