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Tag Archives: Marc Chagall
divine claims from the secular spirits
Guides for the perplexed? The narcissism of small differences? Christopher Hitchens did write a book called Be Prepared for the Worst. So, even in an atheist like Hitchens there is a little ping somewhere. There is a famous quote by … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Chaim Soutine, chaim weizmann, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, e.p. sanders, isaac deutscher, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, mother teresa, Pablo Picasso, rabbi pinchas scheinberg, Rosa Luxemburg
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12 tribes: piety to paris
Chagall was always caught in the proverbial rock and a hard place: a conflict between an attachment to Judaism, that tug of history and tradition and between the modernist, secular context in large part atheistic in nature. Artistically, he may … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Sauret, Charles Marq, Clement Greenberg, George Braziller, Gertrude Stein, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Julien Cain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Marc Chagall stained glass
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memory lane
Perhaps the most compelling feature of modernism is the rejection of tragedy. A disdain and unconsciousness of within the context of a rupture with history. Its hubris, a mark of identity and also the genesis of its own failure, a … Continue reading
they never die in paradise apparently. just resting, waiting….
It is certainly one of the most enduring archetypes. One that even Jung could not extricate all the wrinkles, folds and complications from…. It’s called the hybridized biography. Imagined conversations of the mothers of famous men who happen to be … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged amedeo modigliani, Carl Jung, Chaim Soutine, John Singer Sargent, Marc Chagall, mariana cook, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, natalie david-weil, natalie David-Weill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Marche, Steven Spielberg, valentin de Boulogne, Viktor Frankl
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brothers in arms: miles from nowhere
Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, David Mairowitz, felice bauer, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, John Updike, Judith Butler, Marc Chagall, Max Brod, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Sander L. Gilman, Walter Benjamin
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take off your hat when the hearse passes
God always seems to be bumping into an atheist’s head in the most unexpected places. There was always Voltaire fessin’ up on his deathbed.His almost comic anti-semitism attributed to a repressed piety and faith. But, then he was always angling … Continue reading
walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between
Does dog really exist? Has anyone ever gone mad not being able to think of something to think about?…There is something much deeper in operation here than a simple, albeit innovative mastery of logic and mathematical reasoning. These are verbal … Continue reading
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Tagged alice cooper, Antonin Artaud, boris lurie, cy twombley, david tudor, dyslexia, jaakko hintikka, Jan van Eyck, Jasper Johns, john denver, Josef Albers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, Robert Rauschenberg, Walter Gropius, William Butler Yeats
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what a wonderful world
A messianic redemption in a revived Israel? In A.M. Klein’s epilogue to the Second Scroll he wrote, “Where shall I find Thee?” It was a search that became more pressing during a time of God’s eclipse when absence dominated; the … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, arthur goldreich, david berlin, denis goldberg, dennis goldberg activist, dennis goldberg ANC, ehud olmert, john dugard, Marc Chagall, Margaret Atwood, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, meir margalit, meron benvenisti, michael ben yair, Nina maria Kleivan, rayan al-shawaf, Rick Salutin, ronnie kasrils, the moral lives of israelis
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stained
For a long time it was assumed that only medieval artists and craftsmen were capable of creating great art in stained glass. It was said that though there world was even darker, their faith shone more vividly than ours. Though … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Antonio Gaudi, church of sacre coeur at audincourt, Fernand Leger, georges rouault stained glass, germaine richier, jacques lipchitz, jean bazaine, jean lurcat, john ruskin stained glass, Marc Chagall, nicolas kazis, novarina, stained glass gothic revival, tiffany stained glass, wallace k. harrison, wallace k. harrison stamford church
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the juggler
…”when you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. it’s called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don’t. here is the list of the symptoms, and don’t worry – loneliness is … Continue reading
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