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alchemy and attics: even nice trash finishes last
Arousing the liveliest regret in the dreamer…. The scrap heap of history. The trash heap of history.Discarded and abandoned objects on the pile of the dustheap. Shipwrecked artifacts left to ebb and flow. So, what does ecology, the green movement … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, ernst haeckel, ernst haekl, fred herzog photography, Gustav Landauer, harry joy photography, Helen Levitt, Jerry Garcia, Leni Riefenstahl, leo durocher, Luchino Visconti, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Robert Hunter, Susan Sontag, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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LIKE MOURNING COACHES WHEN THE FUNERAL IS DONE
Extravagant showmanship, a proclivity toward the taking of calculated risks, and unabashed greed- all salient features of the Venetian way of life- are epitomized in Francesco Guardi’s “Il Ridotto” , which also sums up the decadence of eighteenth-century Venice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco Ghisellini, Francesco Guardi, Giacomo Casanova, Giammaria Ortes, Jean Cocteau, John Ruskin, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Luchino Visconti, Percy Shelley, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Thmoas Mann, Warren Adelson
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SERIOUS MEN
”Receive with simplicity all that happens to you”, or so Rashi, the Jewish mystic sage is alleged to have uttered.It appeared in the opening scene of the film A Serious Man.To which must be addeda Korean student is asking to … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged A Serious Man, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bach, Coen Brothers, Death In Venice, Eyes Wide Shut, Franz Werfel, Jack Abramoff, Jefferson Airplane, Luchino Visconti, Michael Stuhlberg, Nietzsche, Rashi, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Mann, Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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VENETIAN MASKS & DIONYSIAN AMBIVALENCE
”An additional street sign reference to an ancient God is the word EROS, written in red neon across the street as Bill is buying entry into Milich’s costume shop. Eros is no less than the Greek god of lust, love … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Death In Venice, Dionysus, Eyes Wide Shut, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jamie Stuart, Luchino Visconti, Nicole Kidman, Nietzche, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Gink, Thomas Mann, Tim Kreider, Tom Cruise, Venetian Masks
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