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eureka moments
The core of Josiah Wedgwood’s circle was completed by the two who had, perhaps, the greatest worldly success- Matthew Boulton and James Watt- and by the one who has been credited with the least, Wedgwood’s partner, Thomas Bentley. The contrast … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Seward Swan of Lichfield, Birmingham Riots 1791, Desmond Clarke, Erasmus Darwin, James Eckford Lauder, James Gillray, James Keir, James Watt, Jenny Uglow, John Locke, Joseph Black, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, Lichfield Group, Macquer Dictionary of Chemistry, Matthew Boulton, Mme Verdurin, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society, Thomas Bentley, Thomas Day, William Rosen author, William Small
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fire of london: desolation row
On Sunday, September 2, 1666, fire burst out in a riverside area of London. The season was dry, the city wooden, and a perverse east wind kept fanning the flames. Ever curious, Samuel Pepys climbed a turret to get a … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Wren, Great Fire of London, Henry Wheatley, John Evelyn diarist, John Locke, Leo Hollis author, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurice Ashley, Molly Harrison, O.M. Royston, Robert Latham, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys Diary, St. Paul's cathedral
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when the noble run free
The Enlightenment. It has become an ordinary and familiar thing; like a Marcel Duchamp sculpture, what was once subversive and novel, the quarrel with Christianity and that people of different religious affiliations could live peacefully together, has now become an … 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
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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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every good child deserves favor
There were almost no flickers of sensitivity to the horror. The callous behavior of parents and adults to infants in seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France is almost too impossible to appear credible. The women of the poor suckled for a … Continue reading
REAL REAL GONE: ITS A MAD MAD UNDERWORLD
The main claim is that the Romantics turned the agenda of the Enlightenment on its head with a vengeance; it was crisis in an age of reason, the somewhat logical and not unexpected reaction to a scientific age. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Sturgis, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Dante Alighieri, Edward Young, Ernst Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Isaac Newton, Jim Lane, John Flaxman, John Keats, John Locke, Joseph Wright, Joyce Plesters, Kieron Devlin, Lynne Gibson, Marco Lanzagorta, Mario Praz, Martin Myrone, Michael Cohen, Milton, Peggy Hadden, Peter Swaab, Rembrandt, Richard Cosway, Robert Miles, Romantic Age, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, Tim Blanning, William Blake, William Hazlitt, Wordsworth
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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED
The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alhadeff, Bill Casselman, Christopher Columbus, Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Father Labat, Gericault, Hannibal Lecter, Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Lenin, Marco Polo, Marquis de Sade, Maurice Sendak, Michel de Montaigne, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Nicolas Poussin, Osamu Fukutani, Othello and Desdemona, Restoration France, Robinson Crusoe, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Hobbes, Tim White Cannibalism, Voltaire, William Dafoe, William Shakespeare
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MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Adam Smith, Albert Bierstadt, American Indian Wars, American Revolution, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Bernard Jolibert, Bernard Picart, Christopher Columbus, Conrad Black, Dan Brown, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Williams, Eanger Irving Couse, Edgar Samuel Paxson, Emanuel Leutze, Frederic Remington, French and Indian Wars, George Washington, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Herman Atkins MacNeil, Howard Terpning, Jeff Nall, John Graves Simcoe, John Locke, John Trudell, Keith S. Thomson, Lewis and Clark Expedition, madame Vernet, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Michael T. Lubragge, Randy Newman, Robert Redford, Theodor de Bry, Will Wilkinson, www.willwilkinson.net
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