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the republic on the flying trapeze
the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alexandre Trauner, Arielle Dombasle, Carla Bruni, devin friedman, diane deriaz, dombasle crazy horse, henry samuel telegraph, Jean Louis Barrault, Jean Paul Sartre, jerome garcin, jessica reed, jessica reed guardian, Lawrence Durrell, louis du funes, Luc Besson, Michael Kimmelman, Michel Carné, pierre bourdieu, Sarkozy, yann moix
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bank reconciliation: file under… checks and balances
DSK. A kind of brand name French luxury good that has been a bit tarnished lately. Like when automobile anti-freeze was found in Perrier mineral water. But, in the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn these are the kinds of train wrecks … Continue reading →
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Tagged alastair campbell, anne-elizabeth moutet, audre lord, claude estier, dominique strauss kahn, elisabeth badinter, francoise giroud, Henri Bernard-Levy, jack lang, James Gillray, Jean Louis Barrault, jean-francois kahn, lionel jospin, melissa bell, michelle goldberg, Naomi Klein, piroska nagy, robert-andre vivien, tabatha Southey, taubmann, Thomas Rowlandson, Tony Hayward, tristan banon
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The Sorceror’s Assistant
After his Mexican adventure, Antonin Artaud longed to visit other cultures that still believed in magic. A Dutch surrealist had given him an ancient cane with thirteen knots, and Artaud convinced himself that the magic cane had belonged to Saint-Patrick. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre Gide, Antonin Artaud, Doctor Ferdiere, Georges Braque, Gérard de Nerval, Iggy Pop, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Louis Barrault, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Maria Levitsky, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Vonquiel, Robert Desnos, Roger Blin, Stephen Barber, Susan Sontag, The Stooges, Uri Hertz, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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everything is oblique in these fearful polite times
For Antonin Artaud, there was a fundamental incompatibility between the individual at his most anti-social or “mad” and humanist liberal democracy which can also be regarded as irrational, illogical and insane.He was unique.He felt that sex represented the evil forces … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, genica athanasiou, George Orwell, j.h. matthew, jean follain, Jean Louis Barrault, lee jamieson, Marquis de Sade, Marx Brothers, R.D. Laing, Susan Sontag, Theodore Roszak, thomas szasz, Wilhelm Reich
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MADNESS & ALTERED STATES: ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SILENCE
Only then can we see how madness and non‐madness are NOT two distinct phenomena, but rather are in dialogue, “are inextricably involved” … “In the severe world of mental illness, modern man no longer communicates with the madman” . The physician speaks to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, artemisia Gentileschi, Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Charles Reade, Charlotte Bronte, Clive Unsworth, Daniel McNaughton, David Thame, Dostoevsky, Dr. John Conolly, Elystan Griffiths, Emily Bronte, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich von Kleist, Iain McCalman, Jane Austen, jane Fontaine, Jean Genet, Jean Louis Barrault, Jean Vilar, Jon Mee, Linda Hoff-Purviance, Marquis de Sade, Maurice Sendak, Michel Foucault, Orson Welles, Percy Shelley, Sir Robert Peel, Stendhal, Steve Dowden, Thackeray, Theatre of Cruelty, Thomas Beddoes
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MIMETIC ART & THE SWEET BLACK ANGELS
”Paris est si petit pour les gens gens comme nous qui s’aiment d’un aussi grand amour” ( Children of Paradise ) Children of Paradise was conceived as a film spectaculaire in the fullest sense of the term. It is a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Trauner, Antonioni, Arletty, Blowup, Carla Bruni, Edward Turk, eric brightwell, Etienne Decroux, French Cinema, Gilles Deleuze, jacques Prevert, James Agee, Jean Louis Barrault, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Jim Morrison The Doors, Joseph Kosma, Joseph Mankiewicz, Leo Sayer, Lindsay Kemp, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Children of Paradise, Marcel marceau, Marcel Proust, Michelangelo Antonioni, Numbers USA, Numbers USA Roy Beck, Pierre-Francois Lacenaire, Roy Beck, Sarkozy, The Doors, Victor Hugo, www.amoeba.com
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