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Tag Archives: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
acts of despair in the face of infinity
“Debauchery,” the Goncourts wrote in 1861,”is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.” …The Goncourts wrote prolifically in every genre, but they never had the kind of success they so desperately wanted. They were less admired than … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Algernon Swinburne, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, ernest renan, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Goncourt Brthers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Faubert, Guy de Maupassant, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules and Edmond Goncourt, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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hubris of perfection
by Art Chantry: saul steinberg was such an odd case. he is one of the very few professional cartoonists (aka, “graphic designer”) who managed to make the transition form commercial artist to fully accepted fine artist. his work landed in … Continue reading
get happy: fizzy irrational exuberance
Were basically selfish individuals with varying and unpredictable levels of empathy? Ulterior purposes. The French “fine mouche.” The yoke of feudalism was tossed aside a half a millennium ago, and there’s no stopping those middle-class values that the politicians keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, Charles Baudelaire, coca coal gnh index, coca cola happiness institute, david graeber guardian, Felix Feneon, Florine Stettheimer, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Niall Ferguson, Quentin Massys, Thorstein Veblen, tyler cowen, Walter Benjamin
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typecast: like hiring a dentist to do brain surgery
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) Earlier today when i was writing about the wonders of labelmaker, i mention that (before computers) artists did lousy type? well this little essay is all about the official typeface of the art world: duro stencil. … Continue reading
the wild, the innocent and the complicit
A Disneyfication of any critical content. Any elements that speak truth to power and which conscientiously deny any aspirations to brush shoulders with the ugly cold confidence of money’s destructive emotional energy. The representation of an innocent grotesqueness where a … Continue reading
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Tagged Guy Debord, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Otto Dix, Walter Benjamin
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repercussions: the esoterics of bronze
The art world divided into warring and acrimonious factions over Auguste Rodin’s “Balzac” was first exhibited as a full size plaster version of the statue shown to the public at he Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1898.Because … Continue reading
Dix & threepenny opera: an explicit body politic
The classic Bertolt Brecht question was an examination of the inconceivable; two forces in which it was not possible to reconcile: how can people be dignified and ethical under capitalism? The stock market as a Three-Penny Opera. The petty thieving, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Hare, Edwin Black, Fassbinder, Francis Galton, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Morgan, James Watson, John Carney, Kurt Weill, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Pecora Commission, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Randy Newman, T.S. Eliot, Toulouse-Lautrec
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distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation
Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Bishop, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, German Expressionism, Gilles Deleuze, Guy Debord, hemingway, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Mark Vallen, Marshall McCluhan, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Brenson, Otto Dix, Paul Maizer, Pierre Schaeffer, Roger Scruton, Theodor Adorno, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin, Walter Lippman
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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF
Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Rann, Andre Gide, Andrew Motion, Anne Hathaway, Audrey Bilger, Ben H. Winters, Caryl Churchill, Catherine Dean, Charles Lamb, Charlotte Bronte, Claire Harman, Colin Firth, Daniel Defoe, David Hirsch, David Lodge, Dominique Enright, Elsemarie Maletzke, Emma Thompson, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Felix Feneon, Fielding, Goldwin Smith, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Howard Jacobson, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Leslie Stephen, Lionel Trilling, Maria Edgeworth, Michael Kellner, Michael Thomas Ford, Moliere, Monteiro Belisa, Pamela Mooman, Philip Roth, Richard Simpson, Robert Morrison, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Sarah Lyall, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Stephane Mallarme, Thackeray, Thomas Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson, William Hogarth, William James Dawson
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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness
His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Arsene Alexandre, Asperger Syndrome, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Cornelia Stabenow, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Edmond Frank, Elena L. Grigorenko, Emile Zola, Fernand Leger, Gerhard Richter, Graham Greene, Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry Certigny, Jackson Pollock, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jill Fell, Joseph Brummer, Kate Bush, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Nancy Pinard, Odilon Redon, Pam Rosenthal, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Paul Verlaine, Pierre Loti, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Salvador dali, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Wilhelm Uhde
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