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MANNERIST GARDEN: Dreams, Spirits and Sacred Wood
The Garden of Bomarzo…. The artists that the garden has inspired include Niki de Saint Phalle and the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali, who incorporated some of its images into his paintings and who was once photographed holding a candle and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Ginastera, Bomarzo Garden, Christopher McIntosh, Colin Wilson, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Francesco Colonna, Horst Bredekamp, Jean Cocteau, Jessie Sheeler, John Tranter, Mark Edward Smith, Mujica Lainez, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pirro Ligorio, Salvador dali, Vicino Orsini
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GARDEN OF EARTHLY FRIGHTS: Mannerist Playground
Despite a lack of evidence, one local tale was that Vicino Orsini was a hunchback who created a garden of monsters in order to persuade his wife, Julia Farnese, that deformity held its own mysterious principles of delight. …Over four … Continue reading
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Tagged Bomarzo Garden, Christopher McIntosh, Colin Wilson, Horst Bredekamp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Droucet, Jessie Sheeler, Mannerist Art, Mark Edward Smith, Orsini Gardens Bornazo, Salvador dali, Vicino Orsini
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SOUL ALCHEMISTS:INSTANT KARMA SPACE ODYSSEY
Instant karma’s gonna get you, Gonna knock you right on the head: You better get yourself together, Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead. What in the world are you thinking of? Laughing in the face of love! What on earth … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged A.R. Orage, Bernie Taupin, Carl Jung, Charlie Chaplin, Colin Wilson, Daryl Hall, Daryl Hall Robert Fripp, David Appelbaum, Elton John, G.I. Gurdjieff, Gary Lachman, Geoff Olson, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Gordon Ball, J.G. Bennett, J.Walter Driscoll, Jacob Needleman, James George, James Webb, John G. Bennett, John Lennon, John Lennon Instant Karm, John Maxwell Taylor, Joseph Azize, Kate Bush, Michael Pittman, Mike Weaver kate Bush, P.D. Ouspensky, Phil Norfleet, Thomas Albright, Timothy Miller, William Patrick Patterson, Winston Churchill, Yoko Ono
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FAITH HEALERS AND TOUCHY-FEELERS
Russians have always had a centuries-long passion for the occult, and in times of social and political change the paranormal mushroomed, with all manner of psychics, wizards and sorcerers popping up to offer so-called “magical services”, on a much grander, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Chumak, Alexander Kashpirovski, Alexandra Fedorovna, Babushka Katya, Colin Wilson, Count Alessandre Caliostro, Czar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Grigori Rasputin, Grigory Grabovoi, Helena Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, Jonathan Levit, Khlysts, Lena and Katya Popova, Leo Tolstoy, Maria Rasputin, Nancy R. Fenn, Robert D. Warth, Russian Faith Healers, Russian Miracle Healers, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Yuri Longo, Yuri Tarasov
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DIE HARD: BRINGING DOWN THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER
Marjorie Perloff has described how “Wittgenstein’s language games have provided models for poetic composition,” and concluded that, for him “the ‘ordinary’ . . . turns out to be, after all, capable of being seen as the ‘aesthetic’” With regard to … Continue reading
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Tagged A.D. Protopopov, A.N. Hvostov, Andy McQuade, B.V. Sturmer, Benny Maslov, Colin Wilson, Czar Nicholas II, Edvard Radzinsky, Felix Yussupov, Felix Yusupov, Giacomo Casanova, Grigori Rasputin, Jacob Frank, James Noggle, Judith Genova, Juri Lina, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marianna Derfelden, Marjorie Perloff, Nancy R. Fenn, Prince Felix Yussupov, Prince Yusupov, Rasputin, Russian Revolution, Second Skin Theatre, William Whitehurst
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