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paisan: real to reel
Impressive. The Italian neo-realists encapsulated the entire postwar delapidation, nihilism and then re-birth by refusing to dodge the issues by intoxicating themselves with pretty pipe dreams and resonant extravaganzas, avoiding the temptation to money making based on the Hollywood formula … Continue reading
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Tagged David Lean, Frederico Fellini, Harriet White, Helen Levitt, klaus mann, luigi zampa, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Carne, Mario Bava, renato castellani, Riccardo Freda, roberto rossellini, sy wexler, Thomas Mann, vittorio de sica
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WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING
There is always two contradictory dimensions which Watteau’s paintings contain. On the one hand there is melancholy pleasure signifying sadness, the metaphysics of pleasure; on the other hand, a libertine pleasure without any metaphysical meaning, pleasure which signifies only itself: … Continue reading
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Tagged André Campra, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Houdard de la Motte, Charles Le Brun, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Gérard de Nerval, Jacques Callot, Jean Antoine Houdard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Sev, Thomas Crow, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth
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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, art chantry, Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Corot, David Phillips, Emile Zola, Fred Inglis, Gainsborough, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vermet, Horace Vernet, Joshua Reynolds, Madonna, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mark Beech, Martin Rubin, Mary Shelley, Michel Carné, Mozart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough
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THE ROMANTIC AGONY: FATAL ATTRACTION
It was while he was still a student that Berlioz discovered Shakespeare; ”Shakespeare and Goethe! The mute witness of my torments, who have explained my whole life to me”, and he simulataneously fell in love with the blond Irish actress … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Burgess, Beethoven, Children of paradise, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Franz Liszt, Goethe, Harriet Smithson, Hector Berlioz, Hugh MacDonald, jacques Prevert, Marcel Carne, Mario Praz, mario Praz The Romantic Agony, Marquis de Sade, Mick Jagger, Mozart, Pablo Picasso, Peter Cowie, The Rolling Stones, Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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