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Tag Archives: Jack M. Greenstein
political theatre: the extent to which life is unrepresentable
Can dissidence be accomplished through the ballot box? Does voting actually change anything? As Canadians put aside their donuts and hockey to contemplate the election on May 3, a new bogeyman has emerged on the national agenda; quietly slipping into … Continue reading
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Tagged brett grundlock, George Woodcock, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacques Derrida, justin trudeau, Michael Ignatieff, Northrop Frye, Paul Kane, Rick Salutin, Stephen Harper
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SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person
During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, Carr W. Dawson, Charles Hope, Correggio, Dan Starling, David Byron, David Landau, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Coppel, Giorgio Vasari, Giuseppe Fiocco, Iris Origo, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, Jane Martineau, Jason Burke, Jonathan Sawday, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Leon Battista Alberti, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Kimmelman, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, R.W. Lightbown, Rembrandt, Robert Smith, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Abrahams, Sir Kenneth Clark, Squarcione, Stephen Greenblatt, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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MANTEGNA’S PERSPECTIVE of DISTORTION: Between the Sinister and Mysterious
The most devoted lovers of Florentine art complain that as a stylist Mantegna lacks the breath and freedom and, as an expressive artist, the human warmth that the Tuscans offer. They cannot see that Mantegna’s rejection of movement and fluidity … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Antonio Maineri, Carola Naumer, Correggio, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Ettore Camesasca, Flavius Josephus, Giorgio Vasari, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, John Michael Greer, Joseph Flavius, Keith Christiansen, Keith Christianson, Mantega Tarot, Mantegna, Michael Dummet, Paul Kristeller, Rafael T. Prinke, Robert Hughes, Vasari
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MANTEGNA: MASTER OF THE FANTASTIC & THE TERRIBLE
The gruesome, the tragic and the triumphant that could be depicted with paradoxical decorative elegance. His manner was prickly, his life was mundane and methodical, his painting was poised and static; why then should he have so much power to … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andrea Mantegna, Antonio Maineri, artemisia Gentileschi, Bernardino da Parenzo, Caravaggio, Correggio, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Ettore Camesasca, Gilbert de Bourbon, Giorgio Vasari, Gustave Dore, Isabelle d'Este, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacopo Bellini, Keith Christianson, Lodovico Gonzaga, Mantegna, Nick Milne, Paul Kristeller, Renaissance, Renaissance Art, Robert Hughes, Squarcione, Vasari
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