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imaginary museum
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Andre Malraux recalled Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shares their infatuation with the past, their conviction that it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andre Malraux, Arnold Toynbee, Clara Malraux, Ernst Gombrich, Germaine Krull, Imaginary Museum Malraux, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Chevasson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Oswald Spengler, stieg larsson
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malraux: patterns across the universe
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Malraux recalls Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shared their infatuation with the past, their conviction it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, he shared … Continue reading
1848 again? …the madcap laughs
An Arab Spring. Riots over a stupid internet film, the Innocence of Muslims, The Occupy Movement, technological unemployment. Continents are trembling and a world is awakening. In some ways, our past several years, and the so called American “fiscal cliff” … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 1848 Tuileries, Alphonse de Lamartine, Arnold Toynbee, Chateau d'Eau fire 1848, Emile de Girardin, Eugene Hagnauer, eugene sue, Guizot 1848, Honore Daumier, Jules Gaildrau, Louis Philippe 1848, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Palais Royale 1848, Philippoteaux painter, Victor Hugo
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trampling on the idea of progress
Is history without meaning, without power and without hope ? … …Even if professionals hold up their hands in horror at the idea of drawing lessons from history, others, far less capable, do not. Toynbee had no hesitation in trampling … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Askew, Arnold Toynbee, Caleb Stegall, Edward Albee, F.R. Leavis, Francis Bacon, Gemalde von Albert Anker, Girolamo da Treviso, Jared Diamond, Lawrwnce H. Keeley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Nicholas Wade, Oswald Spengler, War of Kappel, Zwingli Protestant alliance
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miles of tiles
by Art Chantry: i spent the last week hanging out in one of my favorite cities in the US – Philadelphia. i love that place. it has duchamp, the mutter museum, harry’s occult store, everything NYC has (without all the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arnold Toynbee, Harry's Occult Store Phildelphia, Jon Foy, Justin Duerr, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Weinik, The Mutter Museum Philadelphia, The Toynbee Tiles, underground advertising, underground marketing technique
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summer of discontent: is the end near?
” The nature of people is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.” ( Vico) People have no doubt been bemoaning the decadence of the times since the expulsion from the Garden. But what actually constitutes decadence … Continue reading
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Tagged Adorno, American Apparel advertising, American Apparel banned ad, anne brockinton, Arnold Toynbee, Bruce Mazlish, calvin klein advertising, Carolee Schneemann, henri Bergson, Max Horkheimer, Natacha Stolz, Oswald Spengler, robert m. lee, Russell Smith, the NRA, vico
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shades of 1848: gulps of reality in a pure state
For many, what is transpiring in the Arab world, bears resemblance to another year of revolution: 1848. When the inevitable reaction to these toppling of regimes takes place, will it recall the sad end of 1848 when the springtime hopes … Continue reading
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Tagged 1848 Rebellion, A.J.P. Taylor, Alphonse de Lamartine, Andrew McKillop, Arnold Toynbee, Danny Boon, De Tocqueville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Honore Daumier, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Julie Coudry, Karl Marx, Raed El Rafei, Sartre
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DREAMING Of A SUMERIAN CHRISTMAS: God Anxiety Between Two Rivers
The Sumerians stood in awe of their gods, whom they conceived as dwelling in the forces of nature- which might capriciously destroy men- as well as in man-made temples and figurines- where they might be cajoled into acting as humanity’s … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alan Boyle Cosmic Log, Arnold Toynbee, C.S. Lewis, Don Mclean, Elizabeth Boase, Elizabeth Bose, Iraq National Museum, Iraq National Museum looting, John Russell Massachusetts College of Art, Kevin Tibbles, Leonard Woolley, Sumeria, Sumerian art, Sumerian history, Woolley, Zaccharia Sitchin
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