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Tag Archives: Jane Austen
art of undermining confidence
It is no wonder scientists are often impatient with the humanities leading to conclusions they are absurd or trivial or both, and often with good cause. But, there is a growing danger, as science grows, of the humanities being pushed … Continue reading
tasmania: talking about the word extinct
Providing a final solution to the problem of the Tasmanian aborigines… …all were reaching the conclusion that life in Tasmania would be much happier if there were no Tasmanians. The Reverend Thomas Atkins, after a visit to Van Diemen’s Land … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged George Augustus Robinson, James Bonwick Tasmania, Jane Austen, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, Lyndall Ryan Tasmania, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce, Robert Dowling painter, Tasmania Black Line
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a fine sight it was
The noble houses and regal living of eighteenth century England… …Lord Egremont celebrated special occasions- victories, coronations, royal birthdays, and, of course, his own- with vast public entertainments that amazed even his own time. Here is a description of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Charles Greville, George Macaulay Trevelyan, George Morland paintings, J.E. Neal painter, James Brydges Duke of Chandos, James Gillray, James Leigh Adlestrop, Jane Austen, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Lady Caroline Brydges, Lord Egremont, Lord Egremont Petworth, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Princely Duke of Chandos
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something sad, terrific
Nathaniel Hawthorne was ten years away from Brook Farm, the socialist, utopian project, before he wrote the book The Blithedale Romance, from his observations there. By then, the success of The Scarlet Letter had justified his habit of looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Leo Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Nicolas Poussin
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according to hoyle: dicing on the card sharpers
In Las Vegas, the hotel windows are always locked to prevent jumping. Samuel Pepy’s was one of the first to articulate the phenomenon, calling it “deep gaming”, a kind of instinct deep rooted based on the idea, counter to Einstein, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adam Smith, Atherton author, Charles II England, Edmund Hoyle, Einstein, Henry Fielding, Herbert M. Atherton, James Balmford, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John Montagu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Northbrooke, Restoration of Charles II, Samuel Pepys, Susanna Centlive, Thomas Gataker, Thomas Rowlandson, William Byrd III, William Hogarth
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just above the knees
Syrupy sentimentality dished out in soup ladles is not enough. Kitsch alone cannot explain the enduring allure or at least interest in Norman Rockwell’s work. According to Donald Kuspit in his article “Art Values or Money Values” , Rockwell works … Continue reading
naipaul: at the mercy of the “bow and arrow men”
“If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. …Writers should provoke disagreement.” – V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul is something of a master craftsman in putting down rivals, the art of invidious comparison, and the guile of over-the-top self adulation. It … Continue reading
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Tagged aminatta forna, dick cavett, Evelyn Waugh, Gore Vidal, Jane Austen, Jonathan McIntosh, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath, margaret gooding, Norman Mailer, patrick french, paul theroux, rob nixon, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, v.s. naipaul, william langley
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catty and chatty
Too much dialogue in a film and too little. Its a general that many very successful films have almost little dialogue. But what of the other extreme, where the cinematic effort is running after the dialogue like a car chasing … Continue reading
vice is the spice of life
Prim and proper? Hardly. But, it was jolly old England. Refreshingly, they were not politically correct. The PC Nazi/Yuppie was in an idyllic, and mythological future. It really began with William Hogarth. Hogarth was the first of these new artists … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexander Pope, charles churchill, Charles Dickens, england 1784 election, George Cruickshank, George Romney, henry william bunbury, Honore Daumier, hoppner, Isaac Cruickshank, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Joshua Reynolds, pierce egan, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, Victorian England, william dent, William Hogarth, william wells
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A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”
Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Asha Sahni, Augustine Birrell, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Coleman O. Parsons, David Wilkie, Dickens, Edgar Johnson, Emily Bronte, Eugene Delacroix, Frank R. Shaw, George Cruickshank, George Eliot, Henry James, Honore de Balzac, Ian Ousby, James Fenimore Cooper, James Heath, James Saxon, Jane Austen, John Gibson Lockhart, Lockhart, Marie Fletcher, Philip Coppens, Philip V. Allingham, Robert Cadell, Samuel Johnson, Sir David Wilkie, Sir John Watson Gordon, Sir Walter Scott, Susan Keeping, T.S. Eliot, Thackeray, William Hazlitt
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