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Tag Archives: Gustave Courbet
three way street: la “swell” province
A three-way street is how the Quebec election finished showcasing the strengths and pitfalls of third parties and fairly vigorous identification with the democratic process. All three top finishers, who had a near even separation of popular vote, are going … Continue reading
the importance of bad art
Bohemia is beyond saving. The lesson being that a basically worthless and mediocre piece of literature can achieve more ill than a good book can ever achieve good. It is a paradox; and there is little power in the art … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amerigo Vespucci, Bohemianism, Carmen opera, Charles Aznavour La Boheme, Charles Baudelaire, Felix Nadar, Giacomo Puccini, Gustave Courbet, Henri Murger, Henri Murger Vie de Boheme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie Vimal, Mimi Vie de Boheme, Puccini La Boheme
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saving bohemia from the yuppies
Its too late to save Bohemia.Perhaps a worthless book can achieve more ill than a good book can ever achieve good. At any rate it is upon this seeming paradox that it is worth dwelling on, in the effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Emile Jean Horace Vernet, Felix Nadar, Gustave Courbet, Gypsies in England, Gypsy Travellers, Henri Murger, Henri Murger Vie de Boheme, Horace Vernet, Jules Janin, King of Bohemia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding t.v. show, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare The Winter's Tale, The Black Prince, William Shakespeare
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grotto of iniquity
The end of the innocence. Monotheism completely changed the aesthetics of the Roman Empire and art in general. Tiberius was at the cusp of those changes, but even he could not foresee its impact… It began as a construction project … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cave of Tiberius Sperlonga, Gustave Courbet, Hannibal campaign, Laocoon priest of Thymbraean, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Odysseus Sirens' Song, Pliny Natural History, Plutarch, Second Punic War, Seutonius, Tacitus Roman Historian, Tacitus The Annals, Tiberius Caesar grotto
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goncourt recollections
…As it turned out, however, it was none of these things that rescued the Goncourts from “oblivion.” It was, rather, their Journals — the scandalous, vain, vengeful, brutally honest diaries in which the two brothers, and then Edmond alone, wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Faubert, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Brothers journal, Gustave Courbet, Guy de Maupassant, Henri de Regnier, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Swinburne, Victor Hugo
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goncourt: red-hot scalpel
The bothers Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, were nobly born. They were rich. But they had the misfortune to be intelligent. Therefore, they were unhappy. They wanted to be famous; they longed to be eminent authors, princes in the realm of … Continue reading
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Tagged Academie Goncourt, Alexandre Dumas, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Dore, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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modernism: press the refresh button
Modernism as a ready made. The break with the past; the discarding of tradition. The shock of the new. Modernism struck at the heart of the conventional wisdom in the arts which meant that an aesthetic of plot, dramatic incident … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, anna freud, Art modernism, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Francis Nauman, francis p. nauman, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Janis Gallery, John Maynard Keynes, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, sidney janis, Walter Benjamin
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couch sweet potatoes
Two undraped ladies; each with troubles enough of their own. Not only look-alikes but contemporaries, each of them took a prominent part in a minor revolution. Adah Menken was a kind of nineteenth-century Marilyn Monroe, and like her a peripheral … Continue reading
proceeding by learned recollection
Finding the point at which the same and the other are indiscernible. It is where the center of thought is a blurry area characterized by discontinuity where Marcel Duchamp said the impersonality of artistic action can affirm itself. The ready … Continue reading
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