Tag Archives: Ezra Pound

THE SIMPLE SEER: “FIRST” Possession of a Moment

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dave

Human monocular and bifocal vision is very different to the action of the camera lens. In fact, Bonnard’s paintings get much more complex spatially when he gives up using the camera around 1920, and relies more and more on his … Continue reading →

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VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Dave

Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading →

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MAXED OUT ON DADA: AVOIDING THE DEGENERACY OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Dave

”…it becomes obvious that Max Ernst’s brilliant accomplishment consisted of having developed a syntax by which the employment of this found material could be controlled. For all their independence from traditional artistic techniques and the imitation of nature, it is … Continue reading →

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EXILE BY THE RIVERS DARK: OU EST LE SOLEIL

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Dave

”His profile, pitched in a precisely preconceived profile of a pose, the enormous ear, the prominent nose. His chin – smooth, not yet his signature unshaven chin— juts serenely, sagely, slightly upturned. The lips, sensual-soft, poised in mid-exhale. As if … Continue reading →

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DREAM WEAVER

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Dave

A poet and painter. William Blake. After an attempt to live in the country at Sussex, at the urging of the well intentioned, but mediocre poet, William Hayley; Blake feeling himself patronized and intruded upon, returned to London. On returning … Continue reading →

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IN THE VAPOUR OF THE HEAVENLY HOST

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Dave

T.S. Eliot said that William Blake’s work had the “unpleasantness” of great poetry because it was the product of a kind of terrifying honesty. Blake ( 1757-1827 ) had never been spoilt by a formal, academic education, Eliot argued, and … Continue reading →

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ANARCHIES OF THE FLESH

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Dave

The troubadour epoch was the twelfth century and they both extolled existing values and created new ones in song and verse. For a lady’s husband to become actively jealous was considered both doltish and dishonorable, a breach of the spirit … Continue reading →

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”PLEASE LET ME JAZZ HER”

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Dave

Provencal is the loving tongue.Some aspects of the scene may seem vaguely familiar; scores of long haired young men roaming the country with stringed instruments under their arms, singing songs against authority and proclaiming liberty in its many facets. Urbane, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Anthony Bonner, Anthony Bonner The Troubadour Anthology, Anthony Hecht, Bernart de Ventadorn, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Ezra Pound, Maurice Valency, Raimbault d'Orange, troubadours, troubadours provencal | Leave a comment

TO BE and NOT TO BE: Outwitting Destiny

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Dave

”Since the death of Picasso, Francis Bacon has more than any other painter provided the age with an image, in Ezra Pound’s phrase, of its accelerated grimace. The key to his work is its ambition. He has taken on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Ezra Pound, Francis Bacon, Grey Gowrie, Johannes Vermeer, Michael Leris, Michael Peppiatt, Monty Python, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Picasso, Salvador dali, Shakespeare, The Beatles, Tom Lubbock, Van Gogh, Velazquez, Vermeer | 5 Comments

REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Dave

” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages contained within the marketing and the more subliminal experiments … Continue reading →