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Tag Archives: Arthur Schopenhauer
nature over intellect
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect. The human comedy where hedonism replaces heroism. Tragic heroes die for what is nobler in the mind, comic heroes live for what is livelier in the flesh. The tragic … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Boccaccio Decameron, Charles Dibdin, Christopher Fry, G. Wappers paintings, Gaius Petronius, henri Bergson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Bergson, Petronius Satyricon, Roberto Benigni, Saint Thomas Aquinas, To Rome With Love 2012, Woody Allen
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the well masked person: avoiding nature’s product
Face to face. Not satisfied with nature’s product? Unsympathetic to your reflection in the mirror? Looking for more than artistry or resemblance? How about a mask? A holy picture of your inner self, to better align that precise, albeit mistaken … Continue reading
shelter of a “false face”
In our own puerile way we sometimes take sanctuary behind impenetrable eyeglasses. For years, old and young have been wearing dark spectacles at all waking hours and in the gloomiest of places. And there are always men who rediscover another … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Breton, Andre Breton masks, Arthur Schopenhauer, Enrico Donati, Louis V. Shotridge, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Ernst, Peabody Museum Yale, Samuel Pepys, Surrealism, Tlingit masks, wolfgang paalen
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fear of hardship: price of precarity
Starving artist syndrome. Or superior creation under the wing of economic security. …. One can bring the matter between aesthetics and economics within the scope of a single hypothesis. It is that pecuniary motivation- roughly, the desire for money income- … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Arnold Hauser, Arthur Schopenhauer, benjamin disraeli, David Geffen art collection, Jackson Pollock, Jan Steen, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meindert Hobbema, Norman Rockwell, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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Facing up: masked to uncover the other
Maybe Levinas was just yelling into the canyon, hearing his echo, catching the attention of a few gophers going about their business in the void. However, the implications of what he was expressing was quite profound, nothing less than a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Diane Arbus, Diego Velazquez, doon arbus, emmanuel levinas, Gustave Courbet, Jean Paul Sartre, joel-peter witkin, Martin Buber, Marvin Israel, Nicolas Poussin, patricia bosworth, Simone Weil, william todd schultz
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aware and beware: the amateur guru
Why is that swami smiling? They taught their doctrine in private conversation, and the doctrine was simple enough. It said that if you had the patience to go off and think about yourself for a long time, you would end … Continue reading
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poussin: willing into the trap of fantasy
In short, Poussin’s reason got him trapped in fantasy. His striving for legibility backfired: the pious Madame du Housset , who owned the Vergilian Shepherds of Arcady, had placed it in her chapel thinking it was an altarpiece. …. Poussin … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged andrew butterfield, Arthur Schopenhauer, dr. steven adams, Fernando Pessoa, Joshua Reynolds, lucian greek writer, Martin Buber, michel passart, natalis comes, Nicolas Poussin, Rene Descartes, Spinoza, thomas jefferson monticello
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the office: live anywhere option
Its the new frontier. Until we arrive its going to be a bumpy road. what changes will work harken in the next ten years.The Internet, telepresence and increasingly flexible management at many companies are making it possible to create structural … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, beatles india, bedouin jerry can band, IBM Jeopardy, IBM Watson, Live Anywhere Option, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, moore's law, Salman Rushdie, schopenhauer india, technological unemployment, the ministry afghanistan comedy
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