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drunk with intellectual passion
Everyone has a Golden Calf inside of them, the need of worshipping and staying attached to forms, to feed the form as it were. And the difference between building something more durable and divine as opposed to allowing these forms … Continue reading
perfide manon: still loved in spite of all
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …Of all Prevost’s work, Manon Lescaut stands apart and above. It … Continue reading
some women are interested in him
The cold aloof bearing of the brain and the compassionate feelings of the heart. “Better a dry crust of bed with peace than a house full of sacrifices and fighting.” Helas, All is concealed and All will be revealed. Better … Continue reading
perfide manon: peace with the “petit collet”
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, and he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …Prevost ventured back to France, and there was joined by … Continue reading
price anxiety
One of the fascinating consequences of an inflationary world is the strong emotions it generates for material objects. Although it does promoteĀ competitive buying of intrinsically valuable goods, from houses to jewels, it also provokes a hatred of waste. Rather, … Continue reading
the secret agent: aesthetic of violence
…It was the Second World War that gave the secret agent one of his most significant new traits since James Fenimore Cooper’s day when he wrote The Spy: the James Bond look, the look of violence and all its various … Continue reading
complicity: holocaust reprisal
Holocaust denial. An inverted, form of denial where the number of camps is exponentially greater than what could possibly be imagined. And the number of victims greater as well? It comes back to that stubborn old national characteristic which is … Continue reading
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Tagged caspar david freidrich, charles krafft, Geoffrey Megargee, Gottfried Helnwein, Hartmut Berghoff, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Dean, Paul Klee, Sam Dubbin lawyer, United Styates Holocaust Memorial Museum, walter benjamin angel of history
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audubon
Audubon’s original bird paintings reveal an intimate record of the American woodsman’s remarkable achievement… Ever since his death in 1851, John James Audubon, the self-styled “American Woodsman”, has been given the image of a folk hero whose stature seems to … Continue reading
velazquez: the infanta
There is the portrait by Velazquez of the Infanta Margarita, small hands firm on the huge frothing and shimmering skirt of red and silver, the curls shining, the wide confident eyes incuriously fixed on their great delineator, the Hapsburg cheek … Continue reading
coming to a scream near you
Another critique of this Oscar nominated propaganda films coming out of Israel, the Gatekeepers and Five Broken Cameras. Sarah Honig fires a broadside, in the main, accurate, but not entirely. The part of her article on Jewish appeasement, lack of … Continue reading