Tag Archives: Edouard Manet

dada: nothing is by accident

It began with an ironic and anarchic temper with origins in eighteenth century skepticism which was subsequently absorbed into the culture of urban and metropolitan thought processes through Baudelaire and Manet among others and it all came to a scrappy … Continue reading

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malraux: membership for all

What stamped Andre Malraux’s work as extraordinary was his intensity. When he wrote about a statue, one has a vision of Malraux standing before it with a burning determination that this piece of stone must yield its secrets to him. … Continue reading

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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest

There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading

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goncourt recollections

…As it turned out, however, it was none of these things that rescued the Goncourts from “oblivion.” It was, rather, their Journals — the scandalous, vain, vengeful, brutally honest diaries in which the two brothers, and then Edmond alone, wrote … Continue reading

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goncourt: red-hot scalpel

The bothers Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, were nobly born. They were rich. But they had the misfortune to be intelligent. Therefore, they were unhappy. They wanted to be famous; they longed to be eminent authors, princes in the realm of … Continue reading

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just a bad patch: calling perfection into question

Back to the nude. Sort of. After the classic honeymoon period of art history, came the quarrels and separation. Somehow, it can never quite be patched up and made new like the good ole’ days. Face it, after several millennia … Continue reading

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under cover stock options

The premise of the show, Under Cover Boss was in the vein of Reality television, low cost programming that would convey a sense of authenticity and distill a sense of community of interests between those on the bottom of the … Continue reading

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daughter of moses

They were depicted as ugly or extremley cultured and beautiful. They were never “average” as so the travel accounts of Jewish women in Ottoman Turkey have come down to us. It is hard to know the basis for this; in … Continue reading

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the banality of engagement: blame the victims

There is something about Hannah. For some reason Hannah Arendt has been a post-modern magnet for for ant-Jewism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Israel sentiments all nicely couched in the language of human rights, respect, and all manner of motherhood statements that masks … Continue reading

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brother’s keeper

The perspective of the bull depends on where one is situated. For  Hemingway, bullfighting  is a metaphor for the intricate but often pre-determined relationships between men and women replete with sacrificial qualities and doused with pagan animalism. From a more … Continue reading

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