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putin: land of toska and dousha
Russians have always had a thread of excess, showing itself strong and clear against the somber texture of their existence. Extreme activity. Extreme laziness. Extreme appetite. The extremely excessive. The extravagant Slav temperament seems to be traced to all classes … Continue reading
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Tagged Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ilya Repin, john stackhouse, john stackhouse globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Vladimir Putin, vladimir putin election 2012, zinaida serebryakova
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the sweet smell of excess
More Medvedev and Svetlana. This time they look a little better attired. Maybe the album graphics are more interesting than the album which was a bit of a dog. Why no mention for Leon Russell? What is he; chopped liver … Continue reading
reason to believe or be deceived: who’s zoomin’ who
The struggle between generations is one of the most obvious constants.The 1960’s were not unique in this sense, but were unique in terms of radical dissent and cultural innovation; an extreme form of alienation transformed from the typical peripheral experience … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Penn, Bruce Eisner, California Nature Boys, Country Joe and the Fish, Country Joe MacDonald, Edmund Burke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Irving Kristol, John Cippolina, John Richter, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Roger Kimball, Samuel Beckett, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, William Burroughs
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RUNNING WITH LIONS:The Enigma of “The Idiot”
For all of them Henri Rousseau was the “venerable child” of art, the great primitive who lived and worked beyond the reach of damaging speculation and sophistication, at one with himself, original, as nature had made him. Conscious, deliberate action … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Malraux, Andre Salmon, Cornelia Stabenow, Cubism, Dostoevski, Edgar Degas, Fernando Botero, Franz Marc, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt
Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer
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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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FAITH HEALERS AND TOUCHY-FEELERS
Russians have always had a centuries-long passion for the occult, and in times of social and political change the paranormal mushroomed, with all manner of psychics, wizards and sorcerers popping up to offer so-called “magical services”, on a much grander, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Chumak, Alexander Kashpirovski, Alexandra Fedorovna, Babushka Katya, Colin Wilson, Count Alessandre Caliostro, Czar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Grigori Rasputin, Grigory Grabovoi, Helena Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, Jonathan Levit, Khlysts, Lena and Katya Popova, Leo Tolstoy, Maria Rasputin, Nancy R. Fenn, Robert D. Warth, Russian Faith Healers, Russian Miracle Healers, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Yuri Longo, Yuri Tarasov
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