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trout mask replicas: diving without masks
Ostensibly, they were deeply in love. Objectively, they were talented artists.Very talented. The suicides, one week apart of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake are now branded as the “Golden Suicides”, coming to a theater near you, hang your hat on … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Sandler, Andrew McConnell Stott, Beck, Beck Hansen, Captain Beefheart, David Amsden, Deven Golden, Don Van Vliet, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Holly Willis, Jenna Wortham, Jeremy Blake, John Baldessari, John Milton, Julie Christie, Laurence Sterne, Leigh Hunt, Mark Twain, Nancy Jo Sales, Ossie Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Reynolds Price, Theresa Duncan
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Celebrity:Somewhere anywhere and points unknown
Somewhere is the new film written and directed by Sophia Coppola. She is considered an artist, though stronger on mood, and atmospherics than story. She has been branded that way, but in fact her story, her narrative is extremely sublime; … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew O'Hehir, Farah Nayeri, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Johanna Schneller, John Milton, Laurence Sterne, Leah McLaren, Lord Byron, Marcelline Block, Miriam Bale, Paul Swendsrud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scott Foundas, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, Voltaire
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UNWRITTEN CONFESSIONS: THEATRE and PLAY of EXPECTATIONS
Rococo was the elegant and cynical expression of the ideas of the eighteenth-century.In the twentieth century, art historians use Rococo to designate the art of the eighteenth century, mainly in France, and characterized what could be termed “fun of out-of-place … Continue reading
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FROM POMPEII to Madame de Pompadour:Games People Play
When the volcano Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as a host of luxury villas overlooking the Bay of Naples. That ancient tragedy was a gift to the modern world: the … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, badarthistory.blogspot, Calouste Gulbenkian, Casanova, Chia Sihan, Claude Lorrain, Cochin, Comte de Caylus, David Watkin, Dominique-Vivant Denon, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Gail Leggio, Giacomo Casanova, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Gordon Brown, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Judith Harris, Laurence Sterne, madame de Pompadour, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Nicolas Poussin, O'Murphy, Pliny the Younger, Pompeii Art, Pompeii erotic art, Pompeii statues, Robert Fulford, Sevres Porcelain, Sir William Hamilton, Teresa Cutler, Vincennes porcelain, Wendy Thompson
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PREOCCUPIED WITH GOODNESS: Almost Forgivable Appetites For Life
Tom Jones was perpetually in delicate situations. As Henry Fielding remarked in one of his digressions,” It is not enough that your designs, nay, that your actions are intrinsically good; you must take care that they appear so.” Tom was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Daniel Defoe, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ian Hislop, James Gillray, John Collet, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Oliver Goldsmith, Rev. John Trusler, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Sally Feldman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Simon Varey, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gray, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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HIS MUSE HAD SUNG THE LOUDEST IN TAVERN CHORUSES
By the publication of Tom Jones in 1749, Henry Fielding had asserted that the idealized, morally beyond reproach hero is no longer a viable character in literature. The idea of perfectibility was replaced by human flaw and redemption. Secondly, Fielding … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alpha Ben, Daniel Defoe, Edmund Fielding, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Ralph Allen, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas R. Cleary, William Hogarth
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