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some women are interested in him
The cold aloof bearing of the brain and the compassionate feelings of the heart. “Better a dry crust of bed with peace than a house full of sacrifices and fighting.” Helas, All is concealed and All will be revealed. Better … Continue reading
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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striving to please: the second tear
It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading
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Tagged Clement Greenberg, Clive Bell, David Hume, Denis Dutton, Fernand Leger, Hannah Hoch, Harold Rosenberg, hermann broch, Howard Jacobson, john currin, Luke Fildes, Marcel Duchamp, Mel Brooks The Producers, milan kindera, stuart davis, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, tomas kulka, Walter Benjamin
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debunking the image
But Greenberg, in 1939, could not have foreseen was that the so-called avant-garde would adot the characteristics of the kitsch art he perceived as being endemically mutable to the forces of totalitariansim. Later, he arrived at a slightly different conclusion, … Continue reading
feminine principle: horns of a dilemma
Freud evidently thought the essence of femininity was narcissism and indifference.It was a theory explicitly based on woman’s natural inferiority, that is as ridiculous as it is hypocritical.But, it conformed to the structural,institutional and systematic reasons that still exist today. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Sarkeesian, art blog, Christian Schad, Edward Bernays, Fritz Lang, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Gail Dines, Gloria Steinem, harsha walia, heather jarvis, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Lacan, karl hubbuch, Lady Gaga, Margaret Wente, meghan murphy, Otto Dix, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek
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FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood
Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama, to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Thomas, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, D.H. Lawrence, Eminen, Francoise Duresse, Graeme Dalling, Howard Jacobson, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Joe Speare, John Mullan Guardian, John Steinbeck, Kara Walker, Mark Twain, Michael Franti, Nathaniel Turner, Nicholas Lezard, Nicholas Lezard Guardian, Randy Newman, Richard Wright, Samuel Clemens, Shaquille O'Neal, The Finkler Question
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ROYAL COLLECTORS: DROLL PRINCES AND PRICELESS PAINTINGS
Sometimes, it may be wiser to not have loved and lost, or to have bothered even loving at all…especially in the case of the portraits of King Henry VIII’s wives. Nonetheless, the British royal Collection is a fascinating grouping of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Ramsay, Anthony Blunt, Anthony Van Dyck, Canaletto, Edward Cross, Erasmus, Hans Holbein the younger, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Laurent Agasse, James Voorhies, Johan Zoffany, John Gould, Joshua Reynolds, Lauren Fliegelman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucien Freud, Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Sir Henry Guildford, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas More, William Etty
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JANE AUSTEN: ESSENTIAL AMBIGUITIES OF THE HEART
…and iron butterflies in the soul. Which “Belle du Jour” to rattle the ghosts in the cage of moral sentiments. Maybe men should get off the couch and take the trouble to find out instead of making virtue out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Billie Piper, Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Johnson, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, Edouard Manet, Elizabeth Jenkins, F.R. Leavis, George Lewes, Horace Walpole, Howard Jacobson, Ian Watt, Inger Signun Brodey, Irene Collins, J.S. Clarke, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jon Spence, Judy Dench, Lionel Trilling, Luis Bunuel, Margaret Drabble, Marilyn Butler, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Monteiro Belisa, Nancy Butler Jane Austen, Pamela Mooman, Paula Byrne, R.W. Chapman, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Sonny Liew, Vladimir Nabokov
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