Tag Archives: James Panero

The CAMEL, The SPHINX and Diverse HinjinXXX

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Dave

Euphemisms tend to lose their protective magic at a fairly rapid rate. Like Sisyphus, the moralists can never seem to to carry, drag or otherwise schlep that ball to the top of the mountain and give it back to its … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Alfred C. Kinsey, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Havelock Ellis, James Franco, James Panero, James Thompson, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jennifer Peto, Jerry Aronson, John J. Ray, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, M.L. Ernst, Mae West, Norman A. Rubin, Peter Fryer, Theodor Adorno, Theodore Schroeder, Thomas Martin, Thomas Rowlandson, W. Seagle | Leave a comment

IMPOSSIBLE WORLD: DISILLUSIONED SOULS AS A REFRAMED VALUE

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Dave

Jean Antoine Watteau( 1684-1721) was thirty-three when he painted “Embarkation” . Two years later in 1719 he went to London to sonsult Dr. Richard mead, the queen’s physician, and was there subjected to such treatment as the best medical knowledge … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Antoine Crozat, Auguste Renoir, Calvin Seerveld, Camille Mauclair, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Etienne Jeurat, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Frederic Chopin, Georgia Cowart, Helene Adhemar, Jakob Rosenberg, James Panero, Jean Baptiste Francois Pater, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Kit Andrews, Lancret, Lisa MacDonald, Martha Rosler, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Monika Szewczyk, Nicolas Lancret, Perrin Stein, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Pierre Rosenberg, R.H. Wilenski, René Huyghe, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Thomas Crow, Walter Pater | 2 Comments

WATTEAU & UTOPIA ON STANDBY: THE GHOSTS OF STYLE

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dave

Should we let bygones be bygone eras?These are precious, because Watteau’s paintings so unmistakably draw meaning from and give memorable form to a certain now far distant subculture.He is a master of in-between situations….Watteau introduced just such a change of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Calvin Seerveld, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Giovanni Morelli, James Panero, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Jonathan Wintle, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Lacan, Lisa MacDonald, Marcel Duchamp, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Perrin Stein, Pierre Rosenberg, Robert Baldwin, Robert Mealy, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Cohen, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Crow, Watteau | Leave a comment

FORBIDDEN WORLD:IN THE SHADOW OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dave

The forbidden world of Watteau. The witness of a life he could not share; one of France’s greatest painters transformed reality into the most poetic and lyrical visions in the history of art…. “This artist who said hardly anything about … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Barbara Cartland, Calvin Seerveld, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edgar Degas, Etienne Jeurat, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jacopo da Pontormo, James Panero, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Lisa MacDonald, Louis XIV, madame de Pompadour, Madame du Barry, Marquise de Pompadour, Mary Vidal, Perrin Stein, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Crozat, Pierre Rosenberg, Rigaud Louis XIV, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Thomas Crow, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

ALL SINGETH OF DISPIRITING THE HUMBUGS

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Dave

Bah! to the humbugs and the skeptics. To Santa, it is all about the voyage and not the destination. To the mere mortals,on a diet of hope and determination, its about reclaiming a piece of Paradise lost. A battle between … Continue reading →