Morgan Meis on Three Painters (Rubens, Marc, Mitchell)

From Lapham’s Quarterly: Donovan Hohn speaks with essayist and critic Morgan Meis, author of a trilogy of books about the history of art, civilization, war, and much else. In The Drunken Silenus: On Gods, Goats, and the Cracks in Reality (2020), Meis investigates a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.