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great emancipator
Russia’s great emancipator. Ivan Turgenov helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: showing them what their lives were like… “Almost everything I saw aroused in me a feeling of embarrassment, indignation, and disgust…In my eyes the … Continue reading
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Tagged Flaubert, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Joseph Conrad, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky painter, Spasskoye Petrovna Estate, Tsarskoe Selo Russia, Vavara Petrovna, Winter Palace Russia
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dark street notes
In Edward Adler’s Notes From a Dark Street the materials of common contemporary existence on the Lower East Side – circa late 1950’s- have been ordered and transmuted into a terrible cosmography far transcending its naturalistic events. The novel’s aesthetic … Continue reading
on the wings of the mundane
Salvation of the mundane. An ambiguous friendship with the gnostic demons. Is a salvation nebulous in form a salvation anyway. Salvation light. Not too filling. Not too holy with just a thin layer in the abridged form of contemplation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, austin warren, boredom, Flaubert, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Albert Camus, irving babbitt, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, Joseph Campbell, M.C. Escher, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Walter Benjamin, Walter Sickert
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BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all
Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Arielle Dombasle, Arthur Miller, Bernard-Henry Levy, Byron, Charles Dickens, Corot, David Goldblatt, David Grigg, E.J. Trelawny, Edward Steichen, F.W. Murnau, Flaubert, Fred Inglis, Frederic Chopin, Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Henri Bernard-Levy, James Meek, John Keats, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joseph Severn, Lara Feigel, Leo Tolstoy, Lord Byron, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rene Chateaubriand, Richard Wagner, Ron Mueck, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Medwin, Victor Hugo
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A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON
‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Gregoire, Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bernardino Fergioni, Bonaventura Peeters, Caravaggio, Charles Darwin, Claude Joseph Vernet, Danby, Douglas Kellner, Ernst Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Isabey, Flaubert, Francis Danby, George P. Landow, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Ivan Aivazovsky, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Keith Reid, Lorenz Eitner, Michelangelo, Robin Spencer, Tennyson, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman, William Falconer
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MARCUSE: ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN= ONE DIMENSIONAL ART
Q. But what of art like that of Beckett, which can’t seem to formulate a positive vision of the future? Marcuse: I think it is precisely the total absence of all false hopes that brings out the depth of the … Continue reading
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Tagged art aesthetics, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Emile Zola, Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert, Herbert Marcuse, Honore de Balzac, Karl Marx, Larry Hartwick, Leni Riefenstahl, Marcuse, Marcuse lyric Poetry after Auschwitz, Marxism, Mozart, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Emmanuel, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Horowitz, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yoshiki Tajiri
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IN-SEINE IMPRESSIONS OF ART & INSULT
From source to estuary, the Seine has lavished her curves and geniality upon those drawn to her, particularly artists who have endlessly pursued her image, thus each finding their own.In the mind’s eye, one sees the Seine only in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Baudelaire, Billy Wilder, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Flaubert, French Art, French Impressionism, Guillaume Apollinaire, Guy de Maupassant, Henry Miller, Joseph E. Renan, Leon Paul Fargue, Manet, Mark Twain, Paul Cezanne, Racine, Renoir, Restif de la Bretonne, River Seine
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EMPIRE BURLESQUE:ANATOMY NOT GEOGRAPHY
For centuries the principal ingredients in the popular Western image of the Middle East have been spirituality and sex. As early as the sixteenth century, European writers were using the second half of this irresistible combination to describe and define … Continue reading
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Tagged Belly Dance, Egypt belly dance, Flaubert, Gloria Swanson, Gustave Flaubert, Henry Adams, isadora Duncan, Jean Leon Gerome, Little Egypt, Maude Allen, Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss, Salome, Sol Bloom
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ELUSIVE FORTY-FIRST SEAT
A language police and literary garbage removal squad.Painful protocol for a poet to swallow.The Academie Francaise was created by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635 as the official agency of linguistic formalism. It began as a reaction against female domination of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Balzac, Beaumarchais, Camus, Cardinal Richelieu, Charles Baudelaire, David, Diderot, Flaubert, Gregory Corso, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, James Redfield, Jean Cocteau, L'Academie Francaise, Leon Vincent, Leon Vincent The French Academy, Proust, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Valentin Contrart, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, William Burroughs
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Last One To Leave Turns Out The Lights
A culture of profound boredom.Or a boredom from a lack of profound culture? Critiques of democratic market economies such as that of Theodor Adorno (1903-69), argued that capitalism plied and spoon fed people with the products of a ‘culture industry’, … Continue reading
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