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plastic fantastic: you look fabulous!
Carefully structured violence packaged and passed off as spontaneous beauty, reproductions of the divine mean as a reflection of that inner you. Everyone is a Venus. What is the alternative? The aesthetic condemnation of the ugly as a symptomatic expression … Continue reading
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Tagged andi zeisler, Andy Warhol, edward kienholz, elizabeth haiken, Gainsborough, gayle kirschenbaum, Jean Baudrillard, John Singer Sargent, judith leyster, laurie essig, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Sandro Botticelli, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, art chantry, Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Corot, David Phillips, Emile Zola, Fred Inglis, Gainsborough, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vermet, Horace Vernet, Joshua Reynolds, Madonna, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mark Beech, Martin Rubin, Mary Shelley, Michel Carné, Mozart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough
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COSTUME, CUSTOM and CONDUCT
Since Roman times, Bath’s hot mineral springs have pumped a quarter of a million gallons of spring water a day at a steady temperature of 49°c. In 1708, Thomas Harrison built the Bath Assembly House, for which the public paid … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Ann Ford, Beau Nash Bath, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Linley, Gainsborough, Giardini violinist, Humphrey Clinker Smollett, James Gillray, Jane Austen Northanger Abbey, John Wood bath, Mrs. Siddons, Ralph Allen Bath, Richard Sheridan, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Beckford, Thomas Harrison, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Rowlandson, Tobias George Smollet, Tony Mayer, William Beckford, William Connor Sydney, William Hogarth
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