Tag Archives: Mark Twain

joan on the stand: the eternal trial

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Dave

Poor Joan of Arc. Her trial and execution were only the beginning. In the centuries since, the Maid has continued to provoke anger and adoration, skepticism and awe, part of what can be termed the fluctuations in Joan’s fame. Born … Continue reading →

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the huck of it: the enviable goddam silences

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Dave

Like Huck Finn, to whom Holden Caulfield is constantly compared, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye is usually described as a rebel, either against the materialism and ugliness of “our society” or against the realities of the adult … Continue reading →

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bowing your head at the Name

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Dave

If its not bent it’s broken. And if it’s not broken don’t fix it… In this sweeping theological fantasy, man is both reduced and exalted. Reduced in the naked depiction of his self-wrought condition, exalted through the mystery of the … Continue reading →

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mullin

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Dave

A bit more on Willard Mullin: Mullin was not only the greatest sports cartoonist of his day, he was also one of the most talented artists ever to work in newspaper comics. His drawings are dynamic and full of energy … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Bill Bernbach, Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn Dodgers mascot, Harvey Kurtzman, James Gillray, Mark Twain, Omaha horse 1935 Kentucky Derby, Thomas Rowlandson, wally wood, Walter O'Malley Brooklyn Dodgers, willard mullin, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

owens: exchanging hand waves

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Dave

To separate politics from sport is a virtual ideal, not realizable, and similat in context to examining religion without a political context. The Jesse Owens performance in Berlin in 1936 showed how efforts to insulate sport from politics is futile. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Avery Brundage, Bell Hooks, Horkheimer, Jesse Owens, Lutz Long, Mark Twain, Max Horkheimer, Norman Rockwell, paul robeson, Theodor Adorno, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter Dubois Richards | Leave a comment

homer: arcadia americana

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Dave

It’s art that arrives at its destination from the outside and then pays attention to observation. Homer is part of the strong figurative tradition in American art, and although appropriated as a popular stereotype it reaches back to older, quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Gough, David Teniers, Henry James, josh kroeker, jules prown, Levon Helm, Mark Twain, Robert Hughes, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

stimulus: I’m just waiting for the man

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Dave

As he shuffled through life, Charleston artist William Aiken Walker must have been inspired by card games, for he is known for his Poker Game Aboard a Mississippi Riverboat as well as making a Confederate deck of cards during the … Continue reading →

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a fire in the head: the wild tune

Posted on May 14, 2011 by tai

Writing poetry that sings by guest blogger Tai Carmen who maintains a weekly blog called Parallax:A place for dreamers Tai Carmen ( www.taicarmen.com): If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~ Leonard Cohen My grandfather was … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged anais nin, Arthur Rimbaud, barry spacks, E.E. Cummings, Edward Steichen, Ernest Hemingway, Leonard Cohen, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, sugar in wartime, sylvia plath, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

soliloquy: photos of american monologues

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Dave

Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation. Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alec soth, alexander Farkas, Alexis de Tocqueville, Damien Hirst, Edgar Allen Poe, ellis washington, emily dickinson, Greil Marcus, Henry James, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, michael a. ledeen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, neal riemer, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

Mystery of the Masons: part II

Posted on May 8, 2011 by tai

A guest article by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax: exploring the architecture of human perception…. For part I read here:/2011/05/mystery-of-the-masons-part-i/ Tai Carmen (http://taicarmen.wordpress.com/): In the 19th century, the name of Baphomet became further associated with the occult when Éliphas Lévi … Continue reading →