Tag Archives: Jonathan Jones

mona lisa: still crazy for the old flame

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Dave

Its persistence to in capturing the public’s imagination is in itself one of the painting’s imagined mysteries. Perhaps mysteries that have been more created and fermented by the legions of art critics and scholars than was actually imagined and figured … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Carla Gloria, Dan Brown, E.H. Gombrich, Elfriede Jelinek, Ernst Gombrich, Hieronymous Bosch, James Adams, Jonathan Jones, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Mario Livio, Marquis de Sade, Ross Killpatrick, Scott Lund, Silvano Vinceti, The Golden Ratio | Leave a comment

STORIES OF THE EYE: The “Accursed Share”

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Dave

He was an elusive yet central figure that essentially established what was possible or impossible in the wake of the Marquis de Sade. Nietzsche and Sade in one neat package called the eroticization of the death of god. The profane, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andrew Repasky McElhinney, Bjork, Dave Kehr, Donald Kuspit, Georges Bataille, Hal Foster, Jacques Derrida, Joan Miro, Jody Enders, Jonathan Jones, Marcel Mauss, Mary Ann Caws, Michel Foucault, Michel Leiris, Nagisa Oshima, Roland Barthes, Rosalind Krauss, Surrealism, Susan Sontag | 1 Comment

NOT A COURT JESTER

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Dave

Even more extremely than most great painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder exists at two levels. At the popular one, his rollicking peasants are taken at face value and bought by the thousands in reproduction. A curious and delightful painter; obvious … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Abraham Ortelius, Albrecht Durer, Dutch painting, Frans Hogenberg, Goltzius, Jacob Wisse, Jonathan Jones, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Plantin, Rubens | Leave a comment

BEATNIK CHRISTMAS: HOWLING DOWN THE CHIMNEY

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Dave

T’was the night before Yuletide, and all through the pad/Not a hipcat was swinging, and, thats nowhere dad/The kid’s was all hung, on that stocking routine/Hoping the fatboy would soon make the scene/I was ready for snoresville, man was I … Continue reading →