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witkin: aesthetic priest last rites
Sprinkle a bit of holy water. throw some ash over he shoulder and maybe keep a little pepper spray in the frock. A tragic morbidity that seems to romanticize violence even as it masquerades ostensibly as a critique, maybe a … Continue reading
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Tagged Andres Serrano, Auguste Rodin, charles mann, Constantin brancusi, Donald Kuspit, hal fischer, irina ionesco, Jed Perl, jeffrey silverthorne, joel-peter witkin, John Haber, Marcel Duchamp, Sigmund Freud, stanley b. burns, wayne owens
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PROTOCOL OF BEHAVIOR :Aesthetics Of Within And Without
The most important effect of his great work was its direct contradiction to the dogma of the Catholic church to that time. He was condemned by the church and his books burned. After all, he had come out and said … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Berel Lang, Comte de Buffon, David Carrier, David Lee Rubin, Dieter Roelstraete, Donald Posner, Holland Cotter New York Times, Jacques Derrida, James Burke, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, John Weretka, Ken Ireland, Mary Vidal, Michel Foucault, Norman Bryson, Pieter Vermeersch, Remy G. Saisselin, Susan Leigh Foster, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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IMPOSSIBLE WORLD: DISILLUSIONED SOULS AS A REFRAMED VALUE
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
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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
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WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING
There is always two contradictory dimensions which Watteau’s paintings contain. On the one hand there is melancholy pleasure signifying sadness, the metaphysics of pleasure; on the other hand, a libertine pleasure without any metaphysical meaning, pleasure which signifies only itself: … Continue reading
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Tagged André Campra, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Houdard de la Motte, Charles Le Brun, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Gérard de Nerval, Jacques Callot, Jean Antoine Houdard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Sev, Thomas Crow, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth
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WATTEAU & UTOPIA ON STANDBY: THE GHOSTS OF STYLE
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
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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
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