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feneon: tweet tweet, he’s got you beat
If Felix Feneon were alive today, he would be the king of the tweet, the master of the micro-blog. Feneon was a Belle Epoque anarchist and dandy with great artistic sensitivity. After avoiding prison through his silver tongued refutation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Plateel, Felix Feneon, George Orwell, George Seurat, James Joyce, Paul Signac
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grammatical fears? try the fold-in method
The phrases “literary inhibitions” and “grammatical fears” are revealing as a sort of post-modern aesthetic that had their roots particularly in the jargon and anti-language of the Beat poets and writing as a performance art. in their crude way they … Continue reading
updike: slow accretions of random detail
If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading
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Tagged art blog, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, John Hoyer Updike, John Lyon, John Mullan, John Sutherland, John Updike, John Updike Henry Bech, Lev Grossman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orville Prescott
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take five with the marquise
Disrupted momentum. A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Mauriac, Durrel Alexandria Quartet, eugene atget, Francois Mauriac, Gabriel Josipovici, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Cartier-Bresson, James Joyce, James Joyce Ulysses, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Paul Valery, Rene Magritte, T.S. Eliot, The Art of Noise, Walter Benjamin
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fantasy on the life of the hybrid
The Tin Drum. At first sight this monstrous book looks as thought it might be a satire on the life of Germany during the Hitler era, the war, and the postwar boom. Its hero has a German name and thinks … Continue reading
sages of the stoop and curb
In New York, people of all sorts freely mix with each other; but only slightly do they thaw and melt into a common pool of humanity. Edward Adler: Notes From a Dark Street. 1962. ….Martyrdom and suffering recounted in some … Continue reading
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Tagged Adad Hannah, Allen Ginsberg, Dante Inferno, Edward Adler, Edward Adler writer, gericault raft of the medusa, Henry Fielding, James Joyce, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Saul Bellow, Theodore Gericault, William Dafoe
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whose face did he see?
There is a paradox to Henry Miller. The two Tropics books are among the foulest books ever written. Cancer is bad enough, but Capricorn gets worse as it goes on and reached depths of vileness which are really indescribable. Miller’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Aristophanes, ben grauer, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, D.H. Lawrence, Francois Rabelais, Henry Miller, James Joyce, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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the raw deal. throw the dice: winner take all
And winner take all… imagined outcomes. Libidinal investments. Perversion as an attitude and perversion as a practice. As Walter Benjamin said in the Arcades Project:“The fascination of danger is at the bottom of all great passions. There is no fullness … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Brooke Shields, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, emily browning, fernando meirelles, James Joyce, joan crawford, Lars von Trier, Louis Malle, melancholia kirsten dunst, miles w. mathis, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, sleeping beauty movie, Walter Benjamin
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modernist garden: flowers of evil
In retracing the steps of Charles Baudelaire’s Paris, Walter Benjamin also arrived at a similar conclusion with respect to modernism’s influence on society. The flaneur, the urban dweller; this persona lead Benjamin to remark that the prostitute is the only … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony taafe, Audrey Hepburn, Brooke Shields, Camille Claudel, Charles Baudelaire, dakota fine, e.j. bellocq, Ezra Pound, frank budgen, Gertrude Stein, gwen john, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, jeff jetton, keith carradine, Lady Gaga, larry flynt, Louis Malle, Noam Chomsky, Pablo Picasso, Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis
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