Tag Archives: Giovanni Morelli

a country doctor: chasing the maid through the gallery

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Dave

It is another odd Kafka story: A Country Doctor. And the story of another peculiar fellow: Bernard Berenson. The aesthete and art dealer/pundit of late nineteenth-early twentieth century who promoted and profited from selling Italian Renaissance art to the deep … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Mellon, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Ernest Samuels, Franz Kafka, Giovanni Morelli, isabella stewart gardner, joseph duveen, Kenneth Clark, Kurt Lewin, meryle secrest, Nicky Mariano, Pascal Bruckner, sandor gilman, Sylvia Sprigge | Leave a comment

neither the real or unreal

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dave

Does every artist paint him or herself in a portrait? That is, a representation of the alter-ego. Is Girodet’s Belley portrait a reflection of the artist, following the tradition as almost all the great masters have done before? It’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abbe Raynal, angelo poliziano, Anne-Louis Girodet, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, gerolamo savonarola, Giovanni Morelli, Jacques-Louis David, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rosenblum, sylvain bellenger | Leave a comment

LANGUAGE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Dave

By detaching art from aesthetics,Marcel Duchamp set it spinning on a different course from the one it had followed since the Renaissance. His concept of the ready-made work of art came out of the blue. It could not have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, Allen Thiher, Anna Davin, Anne Frank, B.F. Skinner, Berel Lang, Buckley, Carlo Ginzberg, Carlo Ginzburg, F.R. Leavis, Foucault, Francis Picabia, Franz Kafka, Giovanni Morelli, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Man Ray, Martha Buskirk, Michel Foucault, Nelson Goodman, Rachael Milsk, Richard Dorment, Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Andrae, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Lacquer, William A. Camfield, William F. Buckley | Leave a comment

WATTEAU & UTOPIA ON STANDBY: THE GHOSTS OF STYLE

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dave

Should we let bygones be bygone eras?These are precious, because Watteau’s paintings so unmistakably draw meaning from and give memorable form to a certain now far distant subculture.He is a master of in-between situations….Watteau introduced just such a change of … Continue reading →