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Monthly Archives: December 2009
FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN
The Western world is an ancient system that repeatedly fails to reform itself. That place where the human quality will be experienced as simply as it should be is probably the African continent itself. What cannot be avoided, is for … Continue reading
ENEMIES IN ARMS
In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Bouguereau, Cabanel, Cezanne, Charles Dickens, Edward Hopper, Ernst, Frank Norris, Guggenheim, Hannah Arendt, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Tinguely, Joan Miro, John Chamberlain, Manet, Mark Twain, Matisse, Max Ernst, miro, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blume, Picasso, Renoir, Thomas Hart Benton, Van Gogh
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CONSIGNED TO OBLIVION
Art in Limbo. Like lost packages at the post office without a return address. Metaphorically, on the bottom of the ocean in Davy Jones locker. Painters without a name, art without a number. Every generation of art has its casualties … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, American Art, Andrew Wyeth, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, Fortune Magazine, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Judas Iscariot, Justin Fox, London Royal Academy of Arts, Raphael Soyer, Robert Heilbroner, Robert Hughes, Social realism, Solzenitsyn, Walter Stuemphig, willem de Kooning
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HE SCRIPTED HIS OWN DESTINY
Call it balladeering of the part-time priest.A man caught in all the intensities and entanglements of being suspended somewhere between Demons and the call of Angels. First Abbe Prevost, a sometime cleric wrote his famous story, then set out to … Continue reading
BURNING LOVE
In antiquity men spoke of her as the tenth muse. Today, Sappho ( 618 BC-565 BC ) remains one of the most famous lyric poets the world has ever known.Sappho was called a lyrist because, as was the custom of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Antoine-Jean Gros, Aphrodite, Charles Augustin Mengin, Edith Mora, Freud, Greek Poetry, Greek Poets, Gregory VII, Gustave Moreau, Jacques-Louis David, Lesbian, Maximus of Tyre, Sappho, Women's Studies
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BAD SANTA & THE ROUGH NIGHT
Santa is a monopoly. Many are called, but few are chosen.The evolution of the species of Santas has resulted in a survival of the fittest. Whether a case of perfect creation, the quantum leap, or evolution, only more time will … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bill Plympton, Black Peter, Chinese Daoist, Clement Clarke Moore, Dostoevsky, Gospel of Thomas, Grenfell and Hunt, Hannes Kremer, Jesus, Krampus, Lao Tzu, Nazi Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Santa, Santa Claus, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Nast
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SCROOGE AND A MAYAN CHRISTMAS
When the Spanish conquered Guatemala in the 1500’s they overcame a series of independent highland tribes known as the Mayans. The conquered Mayans were allowed to speak their language, but their religion was banned and,in the inquisition style of Spain, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged A Christmas Carol, Carl marx, Charles Dickens, Dickens, Engels, Geoffrey Clarfield, Maximon, mayan culture, mayans, National Post, Peter Foster, Robert Heilbroner, Saint Simon, Sherman Howard, Steve Wilson, The Worldly Philosophers
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CHRISTMAS: IT'S IN THE MIND'S EYE
Christmas. Undoubtedly the holiday with the greatest inclination to bring out the fruitcake in all of us. Is Christmas really any worse than other times of the year and do the Christmas blues really exist? Carl Jung differentiated himself from … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Albert Einstein, Beccafumi, Carl Jung, Chris Brooke, Daily Mail, Dave Thomson, Fellini, Frederico Fellini, Freud, Hieronymous Bosch, Jung, Kafka, Mark Chironna, Mark Twain, Michael Billig, New Statesman, Oliver James, Peter Paul Rubens, R.D. Laing, Rev. Tim Jones, Rubens, Samuel Clemens, Sigmund Freud, The Band, The Nutcracker Suite, The Nutcraker Ballet, Tim Burton, Tim Jones
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ALL SINGETH OF DISPIRITING THE HUMBUGS
Bah! to the humbugs and the skeptics. To Santa, it is all about the voyage and not the destination. To the mere mortals,on a diet of hope and determination, its about reclaiming a piece of Paradise lost. A battle between … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Christmas on Mars, Christopher Hitchens, David rakoff, David Sedaris, Dwayne Coyne, Franz Kafka, James Panero, Kafka, Madame Pickwick, Max Beerbohm, Scrooge, Sigmund Freud
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