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berenson: such a deal
The whole thing was a scandal. Authenticating Old Master art, inflating the price, actig for the buyer and making commission as a seller. But there behavior probably reflected the same values and mannerisms of the wealthy industrial class they were … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Clive Bell, Erwin Panofsky, Fosco Maraini, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, joseph duveen, Leo Nardus, Lord Allendale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Morellian, P.A.B. Widener, Raphael, Richard Offner, Robert Langton Douglas, Roger Fry, Sir Charles Holmes, Wilhelm von Bode
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striving to please: the second tear
It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Clive Bell, David Hume, Denis Dutton, Fernand Leger, Hannah Hoch, Harold Rosenberg, hermann broch, Howard Jacobson, john currin, Luke Fildes, Marcel Duchamp, Mel Brooks The Producers, milan kindera, stuart davis, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, tomas kulka, Walter Benjamin
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WATER SPIDERS: Quantitative and Social Easing
This aspect of Keynes — the shrewd investor, the canny player of financial markets — is rather unexpected in light of the man ’ s early life and beliefs. Keynes was an aesthete, his first allegiance to philosophy and the art of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Anna Upchurch, Bertrand Russell, Cecil Day-Lewis, Clive Bell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Francis Bacon, G.E. Moore, Henry James, Jan Ellen Goldstein, John Maynard Keynes, Kenneth Clark, Leonard Woolf, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Quentin Bell, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden
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CATCHING THE MOMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
“I married, and then my brains went up in a shower of fireworks. As an experience, madness is terrific … and not to be sniffed at, and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Angelica Bell, Bertrand Russell, Carrie Crockett, Clive Bell, Douglass Orr, Duncan Grant, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Abel, Elizabeth P. Richardson, G.E. Moore, George M. Johnson, Gerald Brenan, Jan Goldstein, Julian Bell, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Malcolm Ingram, Meryl Streep, Michael Holroyd, Roger Fry, S.P.R., Sigmund Freud, Society of Psychical Research, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf
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AESTHETIC OF ILLNESS: "THIS MONSTER, THIS BODY"
Alix Strachey, a practising psychoanalyst and an old friend of the Woolfs, discussing why Leonard had not persuaded Virginia to see a psychoanalyst about her mental breakdowns, concluded ‘Virginia’s imagination, apart from her artistic creativeness, was so interwoven with her … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Hermione Lee, Hogarth Press, James Joyce, James Strachey, Jane Elizabeth Fisher, Julia Briggs, Leonard Woolf, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Kerr, Lytton Strachey, Panthea Reid, Richard Burton, Roger Fry, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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GEOMETRY OF LOVE: The Square Root of Living in Fractions
“Virginia and Vanessa, despite their occasional differences, had an unbreakable bond of love and support. Hermione Lee expounds at length about their dysfunctional childhood which undoubtedly acted as an indissolvable glue in their relationship. But as for the rest of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alice K. Miller, Alice Miller, Amy King, Bertrand Russell, Beth Hale, Bloomsbury Group, Clive Bell, Diana Russell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Judith Herman, Katie Mitchell, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Borges-Giramonti, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Maurice de Vlaminck, Nicole Kidman, Pablo Picasso, Stephen Daldry, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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GAZING AT THE COLD SLOW TERRORS OF THE WORLD
Yet who reads to bring about an end however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practice because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Symons, Bloomsbury Group, Brian A. Oard, Clive Bell, Diego Velasquez, Dora Carrington, E.M. Forster, Edouard Manet, Elisa Kay Spark, George Duckworth, George Frederick Watts, Harold Bloom, Kate Hext, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lorraine Sim, Meryl Streep, Miriam Roth, Nicole Kidman, Noel Carrington, Oscar Wilde, Quentin Bell, Ralph Partridge, Rembrandt, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Daldry, Susannah Carson, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater
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