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Monthly Archives: August 2010
CASEY AT THE PLATE: BATTER UP IN BABYLON
Gambling, like pornography, has somehow arranged itself to be completely normalized; an integral element in our service based economy. It is still on the margins of acceptable discourse at the Sunday family supper, sort of doing a limbo under the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbott and Costello, Abner Doubleday, Arnold Rothstein, Bernard Malamud, Branch Rickey, Cap Anson, Daniel E. Ginsburg, Ernest Becker, Ernest L. Thayer, Helena Blavatsky, Howard Rosenberg, Jackie Robinson, James Lincoln Ray, John Cahill, Mark Newman, Mike Bauman, Peter Toms, Roy Hobbs, Rube Foster, Satchel Paige, Shakespeare, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Viktor Frankl, wayne and shuster, William Randolph Hearst, William Shakespeare
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PERSPECTIVE ON A VANISHING POINT: THE MATHEMATICS OF OBSESSION
“It was said of Uccello that the discovery of perspective had so impressed him that he spent nights and days drawing objects in foreshortening, and setting himself ever new problems. His fellow artists used to tell that he was so … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Albert Einstein, Andrea Mantegna, Botticelli, Brenda Harness, Della Carda, Donatello, Donatello Gattamelata, E.H. Gombrich, E.H. Gomrich, Filippo Brunelleschi, Gentile Bellini, Giacomo Trivulzio, Jan van Eyck, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Paolo Uccello, Pieter van Eyck, Renaissance Art, Rick Steves, Riemann, Uccello, Van Eyck, Vasari
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THE ROUTING OF SAN ROMANO:PERSPECTIVE ON “RESTORING HONOR”
“Of course, there are significant differences between the two writers: Klein imagines that the problem with the world is too much focus on capitalism at the expense of progressive values and social welfare. Beck, on the other hand, loves capitalism, … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Sharpton, Alberti, Aristotle, Dante Alighieri, Filippo Brunelleschi, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally, Jonathan Kay national Post, Kathleen Battle, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Machiavelli, Martin Luther King, Michael Ferguson, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, Naomi Klein, Paolo Uccello, Plato, Restoring Honor rally, Sarah Palin, The Rout of San Romano, Uccello, Vasari, William Lowther, Wynton Marsalis
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LETTING YOUR HAIR DOWN WITH THE “HYENA IN PETTICOATS”
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797 ) was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between mankind’s present circumstances and ultimate perfection. She was truly a child of the French Revolution and saw a new age of reason … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Dworkin, Betty Friedan, Boudicca, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Christine Battersby, Cindy Chandler, Claire Clairmont, Cynthia Freeland, Edmund Burke, Eithne Johnson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman, Emma Willard, Eric Schaefer, Gail Dines, Gilbert Imlay, Gloria Allred, Greta Garbo, Henry Fuseli, Janet Todd, Jason Burke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, John Cartwright, Joseph Johnson, Kim Airs, Laura Mulvey, Linda Nochlin, Lord Byron, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Lippard, Lyndall Gordon, Mary Shelley, Megan Amberger, Nancy Burns, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, Richard Price, Robespierre, Rush Limbaugh, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B. Anthony, Susie Bright, Tom Hazlitt, Toni Bentley, William Godwin
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