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Tag Archives: Albert Camus
one day there time will surely come
Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred North Whitehead, Anabaptism, Carl Jung, Christian Heresies, Christian heretics, Franz Kafka, G.K. Chesterton, Gnosticism, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Orson Welles, Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud, Socinianism, the Aga Khan, the Albigensians, The Protestant Reformation, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, William Blake
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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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human oh too human
A funny and peculiar war it was. Especially in wartime Vichy Paris which stretched the lexicon of all the imaginative permutations that plumbed the bottom of French culture. The complexities of that particular context were splendidly shrewd and also quite … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article
Tagged Alain Resnais, Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Dreyfus Affair, henri Bergson, jacqueline delubac, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel Ophul, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, robert brasillach, Sacha Guitry, Sarah Bernhardt
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farewell to winter light
Ingmar Bergman and god. Antagonistic and at arm’s length and without resolution. A movement between finding security in the idea of god and then followed by severe and chronic bouts of doubt. Maybe its all about a desire for security, … Continue reading
100 red carpets for the sun
Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged a.m. klein, Albert Camus, Beckett, canadian poetry, George Woodcock, Irving Layton, Irving Layton 100th anniversary, jack mcclelland, Jean Genet, Kafka, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mordechai Richler, Samuel Beckett, Sartre, T.S. Eliot
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on the wings of the mundane
Salvation of the mundane. An ambiguous friendship with the gnostic demons. Is a salvation nebulous in form a salvation anyway. Salvation light. Not too filling. Not too holy with just a thin layer in the abridged form of contemplation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, austin warren, boredom, Flaubert, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Albert Camus, irving babbitt, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, Joseph Campbell, M.C. Escher, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Walter Benjamin, Walter Sickert
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when the abyss stares back
You have to question one of the basic axioms of Western life, a foundational myth of the enlightenment that “civilized” society values human life. That a life is precious. Sanctified. Or rather, an eye for an eye. A tooth for … Continue reading
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Tagged a.j. heschel, Al Sharpton, Albert Camus, artemisia Gentileschi, B.F. Skinner, Ben Shahn, ben shahn the passion of sacco and vanzetti, d. elton trueblood, eli cohen spy, Francisco Goya, goya the third of may, john c. woods, john f. mortimer, rick perry texas, robert e. conot, tom sachs artist, troy davis execution, victor hugo capital punishment, victor hugo death penalty
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unconscious aggression: the blind minotaur
“When one has no character, one must have a method.” (Camus ) How can one reconcile such an atrocious human being with art? Unless its an art that glorifies the ugly, the sadistic; an impulse drunk on misogyny that craved … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albert Camus, Clement Greenberg, Douglas Cooper, Friedrich Nietzsche, h. blum, kincaid paintings, Lyonel Feininger, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Richard Wagner, roland penrose, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, walter kaufmann
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