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Tag Archives: Jacques Barzun
look-say method: progressive illiteracy
Student illiteracy? Could the source be the theories and practices of American education as they have luxuriated for the past 60 odd years. John Dewey took much of the blame for the deterioration of educational rigor, the emphasis on adjustment … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arthur I. Gates, Dwight MacDonald, Jacques Barzun, john dewey, maria montessori, Noam Chomsky, Rudolf Flesch, William Scott Gray, Zerna Sharp
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boys with bats
A wicket in the basket? “If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt”.It is a bit self-righteous, but historian George Macaulay Trevelyan had a point that was bit … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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Tagged Charles Dickens, David Underdown, Eric Hobsbawm, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques Barzun, John Mortimer writer, John Ritchie Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Thomas Hudson painter
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playing chicken
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Perspectives, issue #3 Intercultural Publications (New York)/Hamish Hamilton Ltd. (London), 1953 Design: Paul Rand Art Director: Alvin Lustig A lit quarterly, Perspectives was the British/international version of Perspectives USA, … Continue reading →
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Tagged alvin lustig, Art Direction magazine, cleve gray, Eric Bentley, intercultural publications New York, Jacques Barzun, jacques villon, jesse marinoff reyes, Lionel Trilling, Paul Rand, perspectives magazine, perspectives USA, robert lowell, W.H. Auden
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starry starry night
Strange deformations attributable to tradition as it buckled and flared, gasping under the pressures of the pathologies of time.You can see the visible world as a vortex of lines. Or so said Vincent van Gogh. He used the collision of … Continue reading →
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Aldous Huxley, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Damien Hirst, Denis Dutton, Diego Velazquez, Ernst Gombrich, Franz Kafka, Jacques Barzun, Joseph Campbell, joseph campbell art, Pablo Picasso, Simon Schama, Theo van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin
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ABSURD ENIGMAS & STIGMAS:SPILLING THE GUTS WITH THE BEANS
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn’t enough to change my heart Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact … Continue reading →
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
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Tagged Albert Camus, Bach, Beethoven, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Idiot Wind, Claude Debussey, Debussey, Eduard Hanslick, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Harold Schonberg, Hector Berlioz, Izima Kaoru, J.H. Elliot, Jacques Barzun, Jacques Levy, Jacques Levy Dylan, James F. Penrose, Julian Rushton, Leonard Bernstein, Marcus Stone, Maria Recio, Marie Recio, Mozart, Peter Gay, Pual Henry Lang, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sigmund Freud, Stravinsky, sylvia plath, Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar, Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath, Titian, Verdi, William Shakespeare
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