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A note of dissonance: who cares if you listen
Electronic composition. Its an odd contradiction: Impenetrable, inaccessible, yet highly influential. A notoriety built partly on his personal view that reinforced a belief that contemporary music was for an elite cognoscenti. His supporters of his twelve tone theories, including Stephen … Continue reading
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Tagged Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Greg Sandow, James Levine, Laura Karpman, Milton Babbitt, Pablo Picasso, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez, Richard Feynman, Robert Hilferty, Robert P. Morgan, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Reich, Steve Soderberg, Theodor Adorno, Wiley Hitchcock
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SLEEPWALKING IN WEIMAR: Hypnosis in the Asylum
Quoting Hesse’s Steppenwolf -‘Human life is reduced to hell only when two ages two cultures overlap. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught between two ages with a consequence it looses all power to understand itself and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alban Berg, August Strindberg, Carl Mayer, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Gottfried-Benn, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Weine, Robert Wiene, Seth Taylor, Walter Benjamin
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SHEDDING THOSE “TERRESTRIAL GARMENTS” TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND
“But in the anxiety of the second half of the eighteenth century, the fear of madness grew at the same time as the dread of unreason: and thereby the two forms of obsession, leaning upon each other, continued to reinforce each other. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alban Berg, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, Charlotte Bronte, Clive Unsworth, Dr. John Conolly, Elyston Griffiths, Emile Blanche, Francisco Goya, Georg Buchner, Gérard de Nerval, Goethe, Gregory Peck, Heinrich von Kleist, Henry Fuseli, Hieronymous Bosch, James Tissot, John Huston, Jon Mee, Lady Caroline Lamb, Linda Hoff-Purviance, Lord Byron, Marquis de Sade, Matthew Goode, Maurice Sendak, Michel Foucault, Orson Welles, R.D. Laing, Raulin, Reinhold Lenz, Robert Parke Harrison, Robert ParkeHarrison, Shakespeare, Steve Dowden, T.S. Eliot, William Blake
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