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sketches of spain: quixotic spirit of disillusion
The two Spains of Miguel de Cervantes and the context for Don Quixote which explains the schizophrenic nature of the character as a reflection of an imperial age coming to a dishonourable end… Charles V abdicated the Spanish throne in … Continue reading
quixotic blends of madness
The two Spains of Don Quixote: the dark declining Spain of his adult years and the glorious chivalric land of his youth… …As each book is identified, they all remember it, discuss its merits, argue about its fate; and half … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes Don Quixote, Don Quixote, Gustave Dore, Miguel de Cervantes
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don quixote: melancholy of make believe
Miguel de Cervantes, like his hero, stood with one foot in the dark declining Spain of his adult years and one in the glorious chivalric land of his youth… …Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are inseparable: they are the joint … Continue reading
don quixote: unhinged in spain
Two Spains of Don Quixote. Cervantes, like his hero, stood with one foot in the dark declining Spain of his adult years and one in the glorious chivalric land of his youth…. The only good book in Spanish literature, said … Continue reading
turgenev: fathers & sons & a smoke
Ivan Turgenev was Russia’s great emancipator of the serf. His method: Show what their lives were really like through his stories and novels… …Alexander II’s emancipation act of the serfs of 1861 was the background for Ivan Turgenev’s next novel, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Kustodiev painter, Czar Alexander II, Gustave Dore, Harriet Beecher Stowe, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Sketches, Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons, Louis Viardot, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pauline Viardot, Russia Serf emancipation
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dual diction
The massive, gossipy Journal of the Goncourt brothers is one of the longest, most absorbing, and perhaps the most enlightening diary in European literature. It is the brilliantly observed, vividly recorded details that make the essential merit of the Goncourt … Continue reading
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Tagged Aby Warburg, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Dore, James Tissot, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Baldwin, Samuel Pepys, William Hickey
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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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a river of time
Ancient Egyptians rejoiced in the thought that their country was without history. Their view of the world was static: the best life was one in which everything was always the same. The Nile rose, flooded and receded; the sun crossed … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arab conquest of Egypt Saladin, Crusades in Egypt, Francis of Assisi in Egypt, Giotto di Bordone, Giotto Frescoes, Gustave Dore, ibn-Khaldun medieval Arab scholar, Louis IX in Egypt, Louis King of France in Egypt, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Maimonides in Egypt, Napoleon in Egypt, sultan al-Kamil Egypt, The Arab Spring, Turan-Shah killed in Egpt
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crime is remarkably pragmatic
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) the dark sleazy underbelly of the victorian cultural era criminal is extremely well-chronicled in this old dog-eared paperback book (found in a thrift store for 50¢.) written by Kellow Chesney (great name, eh?), The Victorian … Continue reading
black silver: brushes in shining armor
We heard it confirmed this week that Michael’s will be opening a dozen stores in Quebec over the next I imagine six to eight months, and they plan on predatory pricing for art supplies at 50% off, a kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, Charlie Chaplin, De Serres stores, FM Brush, FM Brush black silver, Gustave Dore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Michael's Quebec, monty python and the holy grail, omer de serres
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