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Tag Archives: Hieronymous Bosch
alchemy of “the other”
The ultra-orthodox in Israel desecrated the Yad Vashem holocaust memorial this past week, and though one cannot really condone the act, the graffiti extensive as it was, is an expression that the narrative of the holocaust has been appropriated by … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Avner Shalev Yad Vashem, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo, Doris Zinkstein, Edith Birkin, eichmann trial, Eric Taylor, Hannah Arendt, Haredim Israel deface yad vashem, Hieronymous Bosch, Leslie Cole, Leslie Coles, Mary Kessell, Morris Kestleman, Norman Finkelstein, Roman Halter, Wen Jiabao, Wen Jiabo visits Auschwitz, Yad Vashem Museum defaced
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live at snubbs: looking at kings without crowns
Meet the Fockers. Jewish? Hardly. The idea that Hollywood is Jewish can be seen as somewhat tenuous. That it is the entertainment complex, the mouthpiece of the industrial/financial complex is evident.Its secular, universal aspiring, atheistic or a best gnostic, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, Edward Bernays, Everett Sloane, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Hieronymous Bosch, James Naremore, Jeff Goldsmith, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael, Peter Bogdanovich, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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somewhere between 2 B.C. and 6 A.D.
There was the Year One. In the sixth century, Dionysius Exiguus presented a calculation of the “first year of our Lord”; it was slightly inaccurate, given the scant and conflicting evidence in the Gospels, and on neither of those accounts … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Newman, Anton Raphael Mengs, Augustus, Ceres pagan madonna, Dionysius Exiguus, E.M. Forster, Edward Gibbon, G.K. Chesterton, geologist jefferson williams, Henry Koster, Hieronymous Bosch, Josephus Flavius, King Herod, Konrad Witz, Leptis Magna theater, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pliny the Younger, Richard Burton
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utopia: realms of Nowhere
Not satisfied. Not content with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become.Utopia has always been on the map of the imagination and every age, with some notable exceptions has created … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Diogenes, Diogens and Plato, George Orwell, Hans Holbein, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Bruegel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato Republic, Raphael School of Athens, Sir Thomas More
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dopey banker
What we have come to see over the past decade, culminating in the financial collapse is a new breed of banker: utterly unprincipled, ruthless and abrasive. You have to wonder if Greg Smith’s life is an episode, a subtle portrayal … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged cornel west, greg smith goldman sachs, greg smith resignation, Hieronymous Bosch, jamie kastner, jean-marc moutout, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, the dopey cowboy
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not the same dust
There is a struggle between darkness and light, day and night that goes back to earliest antiquity. Kandinsky wrote about this ability to find the “in between” that would reconcile the two in his “Spiritual in Art.” But Germany? Its … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bach, bosch prodigal son, Hieronymous Bosch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, madame tussaud berlin, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Sigmund Freud, Wassily Kandinsky, westerbork
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where shall i find thee?
It seems like nonsense anointing this writer as the torchbearer for Jewish writing. To be a Jewish writer you have to actually have a connection with Judaism. Otherwise what is left is a “culturally” jewish writer or a Jewish writer … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, alfred flechtheim, Anne Frank, boris lurie, Chaim Potok, Hieronymous Bosch, Howard Jacobson, Irving Layton, Michael Lewis, Nathan Englander, Otto Dix, Otto Frank, wilfred bion
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norman the negotiator
Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, David Bowie, Doris Day, Francis Bacon, Frank Capra, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J.D. Salinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Sigmund Freud
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