Tag Archives: Marquis de Sade

love at last sight

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Dave

The creator of all this decadence and all its obscure strands was Baudelaire. His poetry collection called The Flowers of Evil from 1857, is a classic and seminal piece of decadent writing influencing everyone from Walter Benjamin to Henry Miller … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, Honore Daumier, Honore de Balzac, Jacques-Louis David, Marcel Proust, Marquis de Sade, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

odd couples

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Dave

A secret drive to crave disgrace or an insane desire to please? … Louise Mignot, the daughter of Voltaire’s sister, had in 1738 married Monsieur Denis of the Commisariat Department, who died in 1744. Her uncle on the occasion of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Angela Carter, bruno h. schubert, Francois Boucher, Frederick the Great, Marquis de Sade, Marquise de Pompadour, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Max Horkheimer, meharit kifle, nell gwynn, sir peter leley, The Duchess of Alba, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hardy, Voltaire | Leave a comment

the attraction of youth

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dave

There is, one can imagine very few among us that are attracted to creepy, old wrinkled flesh. What is the attraction of youth. The quest for the younger mate. Is attraction to beauty built into our psychological makeup? That volatile … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged adriana ferreyr, francoise gilot, George Soros, Isabella Brandt, isabella brant, Marquis de Sade, ninalee craig, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, raymond kurzweil, Robert Capa, Roman Polanski, ruth orkin, silvina bullrich, Simone de Beauvoir, stephen bulger, tamiko bolton, Tony Curtis, Vivien Leigh, Wilhelm Reich | Leave a comment

between the tiny folds: bernie and the beast

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Dave

The challenge for luxury brand advertisers is to demonstrate they are connected to reality and in tune, a degree of empathy to global welfare. Something other than the transparently self-serving elitists parlaying superficiality into grotesque profits. … This was a … Continue reading →

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modigliani: humanizing the dream within the dream

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Dave

Its an old question. Its manifestations are like sparks and fleeting, ambiguous forms capable of de-materialization. How do you reconcile the opposites between the sensual and the spiritual? Is defiance and disorder, as Modigliani seemed to imply, the only route … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, beatrice hastings, Chaim Soutine, D.H. Lawrence, Francisco Goya, Franz Kafka, Holland Cotter New York Times, jeanne hebuterne, jeffrey meyers, linda lappin, Marquis de Sade, meryle secrest, Modigliani | 1 Comment

sweet black angels of history

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Art

Aldous Huxley spoke of a utopianism as we evolved into a type of post-human; our immutable human nature changing as the genetic re-write and reproductive revolution matures heralding an closure on the Darwin era. In the meanwhile, history has shown … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Carl von Clausewitz, daniel pick, Francisco Goya, John Keegan, Marquis de Sade, martin van creveld, Max Beckmann, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, raymond barglow, restrepo film, Reza Deghati, tim hetherington, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

everything is oblique in these fearful polite times

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dave

For Antonin Artaud, there was a fundamental incompatibility between the individual at his most anti-social or “mad” and humanist liberal democracy which can also be regarded as irrational, illogical and insane.He was unique.He felt that sex represented the evil forces … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, genica athanasiou, George Orwell, j.h. matthew, jean follain, Jean Louis Barrault, lee jamieson, Marquis de Sade, Marx Brothers, R.D. Laing, Susan Sontag, Theodore Roszak, thomas szasz, Wilhelm Reich | Leave a comment

unreason: the sound of one hand clapping

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dave

The denunciation of reason has always been the reaction of choice since the sunset of the Middle Ages as a general form of criticism; a manner of dealing with its ambiguity, menace and mockery. Unlike madness which could be rationalized … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Artie Kornfeld, Bill Pester, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herman Hesse, J.D. Salinger, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Marquis de Sade, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Michael Lang, Michel Foucault, Neil Armstrong, Owsley Bear Stanley, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Vincent Van Gogh | Leave a comment

mona lisa: still crazy for the old flame

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Dave

Its persistence to in capturing the public’s imagination is in itself one of the painting’s imagined mysteries. Perhaps mysteries that have been more created and fermented by the legions of art critics and scholars than was actually imagined and figured … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Carla Gloria, Dan Brown, E.H. Gombrich, Elfriede Jelinek, Ernst Gombrich, Hieronymous Bosch, James Adams, Jonathan Jones, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Mario Livio, Marquis de Sade, Ross Killpatrick, Scott Lund, Silvano Vinceti, The Golden Ratio | Leave a comment

PICASSO & ANXIETY IN 3D: Me, Myself and Aye Yay

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dave

Did Picasso show the hollowness of the everyday objects in his world because he disbelieved them, even as he acknowledged their existence? Although Picasso’s “Demoiselles D’Avignon” is clearly about Picasso’s own desire it is also an expression of his fear?, … Continue reading →