Tag Archives: George Bellows

1914: cranking up the old hysteria

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Dave

With a little patience, Germany might have had it all. But Wilhelm II was shrewd, treacherous, and hysterical, the archetype of the chronic bully whose mother had never loved him. He had a habitual style of discourse which in effect, … Continue reading →

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breeding cosmic pessimism: may be or not be

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

Parapsychological research. Riding Apollo 14 between earth and moon, astronaut Edgar Mitchell shuffled a pack of oddly marked cards and concentrated on flashing mental images of them to four people on the home planet. Sometimes shattering consequences can flow from … Continue reading →

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coach there’s a zebra at second base

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dave

Baseball, like any institution has always needed an inventory of necessary myths that sustain it, somehow invoke deity status, and some form of the exceptional that can be woven into the fabric of empire, and by extension claim a piece … Continue reading →

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cheer readers : a thief’s playbook

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dave

There exist desires which fall and feed beyond the boundaries of normative polite society. Football, in many ways, a dehumanizing livestock show, the skilled commodity is an intersection, as the Penn State scandal shows, where the erotic topic of the … Continue reading →

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a herd of mobile muskrats

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he at the end of the street,… ( T.S. Eliot ) As Occupy Wall Street … Continue reading →

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George Bellows: An Authentic Anti-Romantic

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Dave

The  life of George Wesley Bellows(1882-1925) was marked by a substantial body of work encompassing oil paintings, lithographs, sketches and illustrations reflecting bold depictions of Americans and their lives.He is considered to be an icon of early American modernist painting … Continue reading →

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Flabbergasted by a Wonder Woman

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dave

  Ruth Vansickle Ford was a multi-talented visual artist, educator, and businesswoman. She is   best known as a pioneer of  art education  in addition to being an acclaimed watercolorist and oil painter. She was also a calculated risk taker, … Continue reading →

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