Tag Archives: Charles de Gaulle

the gods in art

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Dave

The Gods in art. Andre Malraux sought the key to humankind’s fate by a philosphical study of all the world’s art. In The Metamorphosis of the Gods, he pursued a daring venture of the intellect…. (see link at end)… The … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Akhenaten, Andre Malraux, Atheism, Charles de Gaulle, Jean Onimus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, pharaoh akhenaten, Rebecca West | Leave a comment

joan : weigh the small advance, there is still a chance

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Dave

The Monarchist movement, the romantic movement, the spiritualist movement, the liberation movement, the communist movement; Joan of Arc has passed through all of them wit the ease and aplomb that one would expect of a light stepping, free-floating saint. From … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander McQueen, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Bernard Williams philosopher, Charles de Gaulle, Colette Beaune, David Hume, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Jean Anouilh The Lark, Jean Le Pen Front National, Joan of Arc, Jordi Savall, Lord Acton, Louis Touchagues, Luc Besson director, Lukas Jevcak, Madame Pickwick, Marie Le Pen Front National, Mila Jovovich, Nadia Margolis, Robert Gildea, Savonarola, Solve Sundsbo, Thomas Carlyle, Vichy France, Voltaire Maid of Orleans | 1 Comment

cargo : short cut to the supernatural

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Dave

Cargo cults. In times of stress look to the prophets of an earthly paradise… A question naturally arises in any examination of millenarian movements: why do they inevitably take a religious form instead of simple military or political resistance? The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Cargo Cults, Charles de Gaulle, Code of Handsome Lake, Dafna Zur Stanford, Gangnam Style rapper Psy, Ghost Dance Wovoka, James Mooney James Mooney anthropologist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie-Eve Charron Le Devoir, Milutin Gubash, Park Jae-Sang, Philleo Nash, Philleo Nash anthropologist, Wovoka, Wovoka jack Wilson | Leave a comment

detournement part 1: chaos of the “situation”

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Art

A beginning of a three part series on as aspect of design history that’s completely ignored.It was the beginning of the end as we know it… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): part 1: Detournement (the beginning of the end) The French practice … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles de Gaulle, chris marker, daniel cohn-bendit, dominique de villepin, French Situationist, Guy Debord, helmut sturm, Jamie Reid, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren, may 1968 paris, michele bernstein, Murray Bookchin | Leave a comment

ABSURDLY DEAD IN THE PRESENT TENSE

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Dave

In France, it is even possible to remain a writer without writing, as Rimbaud did, living in the consciousness of his contemporaries after his premature creative death, or Valery during his seventeen year silence. So passionately does France hold literature … Continue reading →