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PROTOCOL OF BEHAVIOR :Aesthetics Of Within And Without
The most important effect of his great work was its direct contradiction to the dogma of the Catholic church to that time. He was condemned by the church and his books burned. After all, he had come out and said … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Berel Lang, Comte de Buffon, David Carrier, David Lee Rubin, Dieter Roelstraete, Donald Posner, Holland Cotter New York Times, Jacques Derrida, James Burke, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, John Weretka, Ken Ireland, Mary Vidal, Michel Foucault, Norman Bryson, Pieter Vermeersch, Remy G. Saisselin, Susan Leigh Foster, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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THE TOLL COLLECTOR: Riddle of the Dreamworld
What was a nude on a sofa doing in the middle of the jungle? It was all quite simple, said Henri Rousseau: “You will no longer find that amazing in the future?” The artist’s ability to combine naturalistic elements in … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Andre Breton, Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Dietmer Elger, Fernand Leger, Franz Roh, G. Fernandez, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Hershel Browning Chipp, Jan van Eyck, Mark Harden, Max Ernst, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Robert Goldwater, Roger Shattuck, Virginia Chandler, Wilhelm Uhde
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BEHIND THE NONCOMMITTAL GAZE
Who else? Who but the well bred, courteous Edouard Manet could have put before an astonished public the “female gorilla”, that “gamy courtesan” Olympia? Public and critics were for once unanimous. There could be no two ways about it: Manet … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Antonin Proust, Auguste Renoir, Berte Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Julie Lorenzen, Mallarme, Manet Olympia, Rembrandt, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurent
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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt
Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer
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HOW TO STEAL SCEPTER & ORB: THANK OFFERINGS OF THE CURIOUS
Here lies the man who boldly hath run through More villainles than England ever knew; And ne’er to any friend he had was true. Here let him then by all unpitied lie, And let’s rejoice his time was come to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Marshall, Andrew Graham Dixon, Andrew Marvell, Ann Lauren, Charles II of England, Colonel Blood, Crown Jewels of England, David hayton, Duke of Buckingham, Duke of Ormonde, Eveline Cruickshanks, George Villiers, James Bond, John Evelyn, Oliver Cromwell, Restoration of Charles II, Robert Walker, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Sir Peter Lely, Talbot Edwards, Thomas Blood, Tom Slemen, Tower of London, W.P. Liscomb, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, William Bray
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DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY
His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh
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EXQUISITE SECRET SUFFERING
The youth of Charles Dickens was usually spent alone, and he was constantly unhappy. The financial failings of his father, who wound up in debtor’s prison forced Charles to work, at the age of twelve, in a shoe blacking factory. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Brian Sewell, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Dickens Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens Pickwick papers, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, Victorian Art, William Powell Frith
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