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ustinov: diversity in identity
At one time in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s it became virtually impossible to turn on television without finding Peter Ustinov. He might appear as a traffic policeman- first British, then French, then Austrian. He might do his own version … Continue reading
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Tagged David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Paar, Laurence Olivier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morley Safer 60 minutes, Noel Coward, Orson Welles, Peter Ustinov, Peter Ustinov Hammersmith is Out, Richard Burton, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Somerset Maughan, Theodore Tenley
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hormonal reality
Its a pretty tenuous stretch of credulity to assert that Elizabeth Taylor is a feminist. She was radically subservient to dominant male culture and all her so-called rebel actions have to be looked at within the context of acceptable behavior … Continue reading
reptiles: jurassic spark
The individual as mistake. Imperfection. An enraged Yahweh dissatisfied with the result, torn between creating in his image and getting anxious as they approached? Maybe better to kick the proverbial can of evolution down the road and let succeeding generations … Continue reading
fame suckers
The following are some quotes from a Donald Kuspit article that seems an apt critique of much of popular culture in general. Kuspit is really an important voice in art criticism since his views on art and culture are situated … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Andy Warhol, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth peyton, Elizabeth Taylor, Frida Kahlo, Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain, Oscar Wilde, portrait of dorian gray
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CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ( Keynes, 1935) And thus it began with adherence to Keynes’s central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Greenspan, Andy Warhol, Bloomsbury Group, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Damian Da Costa, Damien Hirst, Daniella Luxembourg, Debbie Reynolds, Don Thompson, Eddie Fisher, Edgar Hardcastle, Elizabeth Taylor, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Frederic Fekkai, G.E. Moore, Jared Bland, Jeff Koons, John Maynard Keynes, John Muth, Julian Schnabel, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Marc Quinn, Maurizio Cattelan, Miryam Lindberg, Nate Freeman, Pablo Picasso, Peter Brant, Philippe Segalot, Richard Nixon, Richard Prince, Simon De Pury, Stanley Kubrick, Stephanie Seymour, 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
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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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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME
“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Rimbaud, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, Charles Darwin, Clive Bell, D.H. Lawrence, David Garnett, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Taylor, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.E. Moore, Henry Tonks, Herbert Spencer, Herimone Lee, Hermione Lee, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lyndall Gordon, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Mitchel Leaska, Patricia Kramer, Roger Fry, Rupert Brooke, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Khamsi, Thackeray, Thomas Huxley, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater, Wynham Lewis
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