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Tag Archives: Karl Barth
hannah : bagful of banals
We are told (Isaiah 12:1): “And you shall say on that day [of the Messianic redemption], ‘I thank You, O L-rd, for You were wrathful with me!’” A polarizing figure. The godmother for anti-Zionist far lefties who can crank up … Continue reading →
agitated realms beyond melancholy
The long arc of hereticism. Modernism and baggage of hereticism it bring with it, the deep sack of neuroses festering sometimes into the outbreaks of pathology and brilliance often equally and simultaneously, is today, a sort of anguished repudiation; reactions … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Allen Ginsberg, Benjamin Lazier, Cervantes, Friedrich Schiller, Gabriel Josipovici, Gershom Scholem, Giotto di Bordone, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Hermann Cohen, Isaac Newton, Jakob Boehme, Jose Clemente Orozco Ortiz, Karl Barth, Leo Strauss, Marcel Duchamp, Parcelsus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Quakerism, Rabelais, Stanley Hauerwas, the Pietists, William Blake
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presence of the lord
The Protestant Reformation has some strange old bones in the closet. Recessed genes that keep popping up in odd places. Those nasty margin notes of Martin Luther, that sinister side while mocking, and justly the clerical pomp and obedience without … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andrew Love, bartolome esteban murillo, Bishop Ludwig Muller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erasmus, Friedrich Schiller, Karl Barth, Katherine Burdekin, Maimonides, Mardi Tindal, Martin Luther, Maurizio Cattelan, Max Weber, Peter F. Wiener, Rambam, Reverand Martin Niemoller, ronald kain, Senator Nicole Eaton, United Church of Canada Israel
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the good book says
There has always been this conflict over religion and fascism that when posited, by the liberal, individualist tradition, notably by a Christopher Hitchens or Slvaj Zizek, there is connection invoked between the two; part of the popular secular culture dialog … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Christopher Hitchens, Fra Filippo Lippi, G.K. Chesterton, Gustaf von Haften, Karl Barth, Katherine Burdekin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mantegna, Michael Rissmann, Reverand Martin Niemoller, Richard Hamilton, Rogier van der Weyden, ronald kain, Slavoj Zizek
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scorched earth policy: the burning fiddler
The dull oppressive heaviness of Nazi neo-classicism. The scorched earth policy. Everything to repress regeneration and to seal off the gases of expressionist madness that could escape and find their way into the water. It was a meaningless world. If … Continue reading →
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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Tagged albert speer, anselm kiefer, Bruno Ganz, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche, georg baselitz, Georges Braque, Hannah Arendt, Ingmar Bergman, Karl Barth, Martin Heidegger, Monty Python Flying Circus, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, Simon Schama, stockhausen 9/11, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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Ghent altarpiece : a trio of mystery and suspense
It is known for many things; not the least being that it is the most stolen piece of art of all time.It represents the first really ambitious and consummate use of oil paint and it marks the birth of realism … Continue reading →
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Tagged Dan Brown, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Erwin Panofsky, Ghent Altarpiece, Henry Koehn, Hubert van Eyck, Jan van Eyck, Joseph Campbell, Karl Barth, Karl Mortier, Michael S. Rose, Noah Charney, Peter Schjeldahl, Peter Schmidt, Peter Voorn, The Lost Dutchman
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EFFIGIES OF HOPE & ILLUSIONS OF DESPAIR
”They are scared of the inner truth about themselves, more particularly, about acknowledging psychic conflict and trauma as well as the primary creativity evidenced by fantasy (especially dreams). I think the early modernists – Gauguin, Redon, Max Ernst, de Chirico, … Continue reading →
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
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Tagged Andre Breton, Donald Kuspit, Dorothea Tanning, Douglas Kellner, Edward Quinn, Ernst Bloch, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio de Chirico, Joe Bousquet, Julian Barnes, Karl Barth, Martin Heidegger, Max Ernst, Meyer Schapiro, Odilon Redon, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Werner Spies, Wieland Schonied
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MOZARTIANS AND THE SECRET OF THEIR ALLOY
It cannot be denied that the verbal arts, the drama, the novel and a great part of poetry have always fed on conflict, and that they have reached their greatest heights when the conflict was unresolvable except by a tragic … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
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Tagged Andre Gide, Arthur Schopenhauer, August Strindberg, Beethoven, Don Giovanni, E.T.A. Hoffman, Eduard Morike, Ernest Hemingway, Freud, Gordon Banks, Heinrich Heine, Immanuel Kant, Jack London, Karl Barth, Michelangelo, Mozart, Otto Rank, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, William James, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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