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oh boswell! …assailed by the evening effluvia
In 1785 James Boswell published the journey of his tour of Scotland with Dr. Samuel Johnson. By the following year Samuel Collings and Thomas Rowlandson had produced a fine satire on it, which Boswell received in “good Humour.” The engravings … Continue reading
who can like the highlands?
Or so asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. … Among the arts of life, Jean Cocteau once … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged David Hume, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jean Cocteau, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wilkes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson, Tom Davies Bookshop
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joan : weigh the small advance, there is still a chance
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
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joan of liberty and fraternity and convenience
Joan of Arc. From compromising circumstance in the life of Charles VII, to be forgotten as soon as possible to subsequent resurrection and refashioning into useful symbol… The French Revolution was a decisive event in the development of the reputation … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anatole france, David Hume, George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, Joan of Arc and French Revolution, Joan of Arc Rehabilitation, Jules Eugene Lenepveu, Jules Quicherat, Luc Besson director, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, Vigils of Charles VII, Voltaire and Joan of Arc
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saint joan of kitsch: kicking the rehab can
The Protestants of the sixteenth century saw Joan of Arc as the Joan of the Rehabilitation “tainted with idolatry,” identified with Church and King. They destroyed every representation of her upon which they could lay their hands. Swedes in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged David Hume, George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan, Hermann Stilke, Hermann Stilke Joan of Arc, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, Joan of Arc Rehabilitation, Joan of Arc The Maid, Joan of Arc Trial, Jules Quicherat, Luc Besson director, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Leroy painter, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, Pope Calixtus III, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Bernhardt Joan of Arc, The Messenger movie, The Vigils of Charles VII
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joan of arc as my bellona: a strumpet of a pucelle?
Poor Joan of Arc. Her trial and execution were only the beginning in the saga of the fluctuations of Joan’s fame that has run the gamut from anger and awe, skepticism and adoration… Since the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolphe-Alexandre Dillens, Charles VII King of France, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Hume, Francois Villon, Jean d'Estiver Promoter Joan of Arc, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, Joan of Arc Rehabilitation, Joan of Arc The Maid, Joan of Arc Trial, Jules Quicherat, Luc Besson director, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, The Messenger movie, The Vigils of Charles VII, Voltaire Joan of Arc
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a motionless world of time between
Jean Jacques Rousseau and his Noble Savage. The supposed “enlightened” thinking, of liberal democratic godfathers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant filled with racist delusions. At the opposing spectrum is a Martin Heidegger and the counter-enlightenment which was basically philosophic … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Ballet Africain, Cameroon native dancing, chad native dancing, David Hume, Don Ulloa, emmanuel faye, Hannah Arendt, ivory coast native dancing, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Michel Huet, Montesquieu, sudan native dancing, west cameroon independence
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hume: a fire hose in paradise
Our tradition of the Enlightenment. Secularism and at least partly a sectarian quarrel with religion. They could never fairly assess the contours of Christian thought, art and humanitarianism and in so doing opened the door to the counter Enlightenment which … Continue reading
foiled hopes
The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged David Hume, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Peter Howson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Slavoj Zizek, Sokari Douglas Camp, The marquis de Sade, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Wieland Schonied
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