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palladio no palladian
Was Palladio a Palladian? The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fit few of the formulas… It is an odd thesis to assert that Andrea Palladio is unknown. If any architect has achieved … Continue reading
karl marx: the romantic idealist
Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …It was to this generation that Karl Marx, born in 1818, belonged. There is no cause for surprise that he became a revolutionary; it would almost … Continue reading
How not to win a war
How not to win a war? A good beginning would be to ignore Karl Maria von Clauswitz- as we have apparently have been doing for the past seven decades…. Since 1945, under the stimulus of the Cold War, an immense … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of the Wavre, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hondros, Convention of Tauroggen 1812, Edward Sorel, Hamas MP Ahmad Bahr, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph E. Stiglitz, kirsten cale, Linda J. Bilmes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, restrepo film, Scharnhorst Prussian Army, Sebastian Junger, tim hetherington
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tin drums: marching to a different beat
…Nobel laureate Günter Grass is expected to be released from a Hamburg hospital within days, after undergoing what his secretary called a routine test. Grass was admitted on Monday, less than two weeks after his poem criticising Israel triggered a … Continue reading
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Tagged Gunter grass, Gunter Grass israel, Gunter Grass The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass Zionism, Henryk M. Broder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marieluise Beck, MK David Rotem, MK Robert Ilatov, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Fassbinder, Zvi Rex psychoanalyst
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not the same dust
There is a struggle between darkness and light, day and night that goes back to earliest antiquity. Kandinsky wrote about this ability to find the “in between” that would reconcile the two in his “Spiritual in Art.” But Germany? Its … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bach, bosch prodigal son, Hieronymous Bosch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, madame tussaud berlin, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Sigmund Freud, Wassily Kandinsky, westerbork
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a bigger bang: head shots and dumbing down
Blame it on bourgeois ethics? Is the successful t.v. series The Big Bang Theory merely insulting in its violence; a violence which may be an endemic cultural trait within middle-class values, that repository of conservatism and arch determination to maintain … Continue reading
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Tagged christopher caudwell, Chuck Lorre, gary mason globe and mail, Gustav Landauer, H.G. Wells, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Galsworthy, John Heartfield, Martin Buber, Max Beckmann, Michael Ferguson, richard f. hamilton, richard gruneau, Rick Salutin, thomas frank the baffler, vancouver stanley cup riots, Walter Benjamin
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PLEDGING FAITH AS COLLATERAL: Sloth & the Imp
“This new millennium already marked by killings is merely a sign of what Conrad called our miserable ingenuity. How we love to create Devils and Gods and bloody rivers of ways to get their almighty attention. What we turn away … Continue reading
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Tagged Brendan Gill, Cardinal Egan, Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, Father Gabriele Amorth, Frans Huys, Goethe, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jimmy Breslin, Jimmy Breslin The Church That Forgot Christ, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Conrad, Kelly Cogswell, Neil Reynolds, Pope Benedict XVI, Randy Newman, Rossano Gospels, Stanley Milgram, Syriac Bible of Paris, Watering of the Girls Hungary
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