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Babel of babble: by words we govern
If what is said is not what is meant. Language is the only vehicle of ideas; if it breaks down, what happens to the ideas? …For the English language has been spreading around the civilized world at an unprecedented rate … Continue reading
karl marx: romanticism of the angry moralist
The many faces of Karl Marx. We know of the revolutionary, the prophet, the historian and the philosopher. But he had one another: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… Karl Marx…But ultimately of course, … Continue reading
ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot
There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Bostom, benjamin disraeli, Benny Morris Historian, Benzion Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, doug saunders globe and mail, Fouad Ajami, Golden Age of Muslim Spain, Heinrich Graetz, Jane Gerber, Maimonides, Maimonides in Egypt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Montesquieu, Moritz Steinschneider, Nicky Larkin director, Pierre Bayle, Piet Mondrian, Robert Wistrich, Shlomo Dov Goiten, Voltaire
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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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the coxcombs move on
The late Victorian period for the Royal Academy was really the end , succumbing after a long and chronic respiratory illness. Frith’s The Private View from 1881, showed that the Summer Exhibition could still take a hold on the public, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged benjamin disraeli, Grosvenor Gallery, James McNeil Whistler On the Piano, James McNeill Whistler, John Everett Millais, John Ruskin, Joshua Reynolds, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the royal academy, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith, William Powell Frith The Private Room
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Primrose for a faery queen
Believing that her Indian subjects were mistreated, the queen at sixty-nine ostentatiously took a young Indian from Agra as an extra personal secretary, or “Munshi”. Her court was scandalized. Equally scandalized was Her Majesty by their race prejudice: For them … Continue reading
snobbery, default and flattery
As for prudery it seemed as acceptable to the middle classes as to Queen Victoria herself. Her beloved Albert had a great success in cleaning up the court, and Lord Shaftesbury, a strict evangelical churchman and champion of progressive family … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged benjamin disraeli, Bertrand Russell, emily blunt, Florence Nightingale, franz xaver winterhalter, gavin friday, Great Exhibition of 1851, john bull, john tenniel punch, Lady Amberly, Lord Shaftesbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, queen victoria, William Corbett
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