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terrorism: no innocent victims
…At his trial Emile Henry explained with some pride how he had constructed his bomb according to approved scientific principles and had methodically rehearsed his crime. he was less articulate about why he had picked that particular target. The Cafe … Continue reading
bohemia on central park west
Art mirrored life and vice-versa in painter John Koch’s polished household, a milieu that was as far from a traditional garret as one could get… About eighty New York blocks separated the sumptuously appointed fourteen-room apartment of the painter John … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Ania Dorfman, Dora Zaslavsky, Grady Turner, Harold Bauer, Hilton Kramer, Jean Cocteau, Johan Zoffany, John Koch, Leo Lerman, Maurice Grosser, Mrs. Edgar Feder, Raphael Soyer, Wassily Kandinsky, William Backhaus
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goncourt recollections
…As it turned out, however, it was none of these things that rescued the Goncourts from “oblivion.” It was, rather, their Journals — the scandalous, vain, vengeful, brutally honest diaries in which the two brothers, and then Edmond alone, wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Faubert, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Brothers journal, Gustave Courbet, Guy de Maupassant, Henri de Regnier, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Swinburne, Victor Hugo
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goncourt: red-hot scalpel
The bothers Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, were nobly born. They were rich. But they had the misfortune to be intelligent. Therefore, they were unhappy. They wanted to be famous; they longed to be eminent authors, princes in the realm of … Continue reading
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Tagged Academie Goncourt, Alexandre Dumas, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Dore, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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between five and six: cruising with the marquise
The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Gilles Deleuze, Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget
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looking smart
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is what a smart book looks like. new directions paperbacks were throughout the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s the quintessential image of intelligence. all you had to do was walk around with one tucked under your … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, Andre Gide, art chantry, dover books, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, gilda kuhlman, Herman Hesse, James Agee, james laughlin, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nathaniel West, new directions paperbacks, trade paperback books, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan
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chopin of dissonance: nocturnes on renunciations of reality
For sixteen prolific years in France prior to splitting with George Sand, Chopin had produced an uninterrupted stream of masterpieces on such a consistently brilliant level of craftsmanship and invention that it is well-nigh impossible to talk of a bell … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Andre Gide, Bach, Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Hannelore Mundt, Heinrich Heine, Jane Birkin, Oscar Wilde, Pauer, Radek Sikorski, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Serge Gainsbourg, Thomas Mann
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Sand and Chopin….. etudes of the muse or the ballade of the…vampire
George Sand is often cast as the villain of the piece, though actually, she did wonders for Frederic Chopin by shielding him from the buffetings of the world. Chopin’s connection with Madame Dudevant, the French novelist, better known as “George … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mickiewicz, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, August Clesinger, Chopin, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Honore Daumier, Honore de Balzac, Janka Wohl, Michael Lunts, Oscar Wilde, Paganini, Victor Hugo
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liberated from foursquare classical rhythms
His life was brilliant and brief, much like his masterpieces on the piano. This segment tracks Frederic Chopin in Paris. He had left Poland to spend eight inhospitable months in Vienna before making his way to Paris at he time … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Henryk Siemieradzki, Honore Daumier, Jean Louis Bezard, Michael Lunts, William Heath, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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