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Tag Archives: Charles Baudelaire
cin-thesis
Articulations about suffering and pain without the destructive collateral damage of nihilism. Modern despair in a human way. A taking of Edward Hopper’s figures and putting them within the crowd of Baudelaire’s Paris, marching, crying, weeping, but maintaining a human … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Miller, Charles Baudelaire, Edward Hopper, franklin delano roosevelt memorial, George Segal, kent state shootings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, michael blackwood, Sigmund Freud, simmel, Walter Benjamin
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matters of taste and waste
Artistic dependency on money? Art as a cash crop, growing money and not the fertility of artistic endeavor. The effects of urban , cosmopolitan culture on the arts probably stretched back to the Renaissance, but it may have been Watteau … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anthony Trollope, Charles Baudelaire, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith
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A toast to dorian gray
Is our post-modern condition characterized by an instilling of youthfulness into an ancient world. A rejuvenation of creaky old bones. Baudelaire wrote of youth as a sort of priesthood, at least according to the young. Youth is a fetish, a … Continue reading
innocent no more
To follow up on Rockwell, and digress further into some of the implications brought up by Richard Halpern in his book, The Underside of Innocence, we of course cannot confirm the theory posited by him, but there does appear to … Continue reading
norman the negotiator
Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, David Bowie, Doris Day, Francis Bacon, Frank Capra, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J.D. Salinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Sigmund Freud
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if our memory serves us well
The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading
forever young
To stay forever young. To defy aging. to somehow cheat the odds and glorify in a kind of infantilism; a taunting provocative sort of dissent, like children peeing on the living room carpet. We are definitely in a post-art age … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, John Heartfield, John Lennon Walls and Bridges, Lynn Stern, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, paul mccarthy, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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ragpicker : prodigal sons and daughters
Last night on the radio was a Roubini Global Economics staff member, Megan Green commenting on her Greek trip. Initially, the temptation when one hears the word “Roubini” is to change stations, but she tackled the subject surpisingly well, especially … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged atget, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, Danny kaye, eugene atget, Hieronymous Bosch, katherine hepburn, mark blyth brown university, megan green roubini, Roubini global economics, the madwoman of chaillot, Walter Benjamin
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peace in happy valley: the reasonable citizens
Too late for the two state solution? Part of an interview with Sari Nusseibeh in Der Spiegel, one which undercuts the B.S. and boilerplate rhetoric that constitutes our daily bread. The proposed confederation is not new, is a kind of … Continue reading
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