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The cosmology of Christendom once defined every Westerner: for better or for worse, people understood where they stood in the universe, and where they were headed. Perhaps the exemplar of this moment most pertinent to Camber Porter is Michelangelo, whose conflation of the spiritual and the material, the chaste and the sensual, horrified and aroused his contemporaries even as it communicated the artist's highly personal understanding of God, man, and their interrelationship. Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine.

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Melinda Camber Porter (1953 - 2008) was born in London and graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Honors degree in Modern Languages. She began her writing career in Paris as a cultural correspondent for The Times of London. French culture is the subject of her book Through Parisian Eyes (published by Oxford University Press), which the Boston Globe describes as a particularly readable and brilliantly and uniquely compiled collection. She interviewed many leading cultural figures including four Nobel Prize winners such as Saul Bellow and Gunter Grass, and others; Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Diddion, Frances Sagan, Michael Apted, Martin Scorsese, and Wim Wenders. Camber Porter's left over 50 audio recordings of these interviews. Her novel Badlands, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, was set on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Publishers Weekly stated a novel of startling, dreamlike lyricism. A film documenting the creation of the paintings featured in this solo exhibition, entitled The Art of Love, showed regularly on Public Television stations nationally and a collection of her poetry and paintings, also entitled The Art of Love, served as companion to the show. Camber Porter's paintings have also served as the primary inspiration and as backdrops for several of her theatrical works. She created the backdrops, book, and lyrics for the musical Night Angel, with music by Carmen Moore and was originally performed at Lincoln Center in New York City. She created the book, lyrics, and backdrops for the rock-opera-in-progress, Journey to Benares, with music, direction and choreography by Elizabeth Swados, and was performed at the Asia Society and Museum in New York City in November 2003. Melinda Camber Porter leaves a prolific and creative legacy with thousands of paintings; over two hundred hours of audio and film interviews with global creative figures in the arts, film and literature; and her tens of thousands of pages of writings: novels, plays, essays, journalism and volumes of poetry. Her creative and spiritual works will be enjoyed for generations. Melinda Camber Porter (1953 - 2008) was born in London and graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Honors degree in Modern Languages. She began her writing career in Paris as a cultural correspondent for The Times of London. French culture is the subject of her book Through Parisian Eyes (published by Oxford University Press), which the Boston Globe describes as a particularly readable and brilliantly and uniquely compiled collection. She interviewed many leading cultural figures including four Nobel Prize winners such as Saul Bellow and Gunter Grass, and others; Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Diddion, Frances Sagan, Michael Apted, Martin Scorsese, and Wim Wenders. Camber Porter's left over 50 audio recordings of these interviews. Her novel Badlands, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, was set on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Publishers Weekly stated a novel of startling, dreamlike lyricism. A film documenting the creation of the paintings featured in this solo exhibition, entitled The Art of Love, showed regularly on Public Television stations nationally and a collection of her poetry and paintings, also entitled The Art of Love, served as companion to the show. Camber Porter's paintings have also served as the primary inspiration and as backdrops for several of her theatrical works. She created the backdrops, book, and lyrics for the musical Night Angel, with music by Carmen Moore and was originally performed at Lincoln Center in New York City. She created the book, lyrics, and backdrops for the rock-opera-in-progress, Journey to Benares, with music, direction and choreography by Elizabeth Swados, and was performed at the Asia Society and Museum in New York City in November 2003. Melinda Camber Porter leaves a prolific and creative legacy with thousands of paintings; over two hundred hours of audio and film interviews with global creative figures in the arts, film and literature; and her tens of thousands of pages of writings: novels, plays, essays, journalism and volumes of poetry. Her creative and spiritual works will be enjoyed for generations. Peter Trippi is Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur (www.fineartconnoisseur.com), the bimonthly magazine that serves collectors of figurative painting, sculpture, drawings, and prints dated 1800 through today. He is responsible for each issue's development and implementation, as well as management of contributing editors and writers. Trippi holds a MA from New York University in Visual Arts Administration, as well as a MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. His 250-page biography of the painter J. W. Waterhouse (1849-1917) was published in 2002 by Phaidon Press (London) and has sold 36,000 copies worldwide, including French and Japanese language editions. In addition to his work on Fine Art Connoisseur, Trippi operates his own firm, Projects in 19th-Century Art, through which he curates exhibitions, writes articles, essays, and catalogues, juries shows, and presents lectures. His most recent talks have been given at Columbia University School of Continuing Education, College Art Association, Christie's Education, St. Andrews University, and the Boston International Fine Art Fair. In September 2006 he presented a paper on J. W. Waterhouse at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference, held at Purdue University, Indiana. In February 2008, he will co-chair with Martina Droth (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds) a session at the College Art Association's annual conference in Dallas on British art critics c. 1900. He is currently co-organizing a J. W. Waterhouse retrospective for presentation in 2008-2010 at the Groninger Museum (Netherlands), Royal Academy of Arts (London), and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada). Before arriving at Fine Art Connoisseur, Trippi was Director of the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York City for three years and also held positions at the Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Association of Art Museum Directors (where he wrote a history of that organization from 1916 to 1991), Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Arts Education Research Center at New York University, and American Arts Alliance in Washington DC. Trippi contributed two chapters to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1997, organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and published by Abrams). In 2002, he co-founded the innovative, peer-reviewed journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (www.19thc-artworldwide.org). He has served on the boards of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, Historians of British Art, and American Friends of the Attingham Summer School.

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