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americans abroad: in search of “classical” education
The Henry James archetype of the American abroad: Generally painters, novelists or historians of the arts. Almost all of them idlers who live on unearned income and found in Switzerland an ideal tax haven; pensioners an elderly couples stretching their … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caresse Crosby, Cybil Shepherd, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Henry James Daisy Miller, James McNeill Whistler, Leo Stein, Man Ray, mary cassatt, Peter Bogdanovich, Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, William Merritt Chase
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out of the nest: innocence abroad
Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities, and later Hemingway took his lusty appetites; today the idea of innocence abroad lingers but tenuously, as the rejection of home… The American emigre movement to Europe had its beginnings in the … Continue reading
its always money in philadelphia
Philadelphia. It’s always had a peculiar character about it; an aristocracy of old families, Quaker in conscience if not in religion or taste… “Philadelphia,” wrote George Biddle in his autobiography, ” has its own breed of integrity. It believes in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Eakins, George Biddle, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary Cassat, mary cassatt, Raphael Soyer, Thomas Eakins, William Penn, Winslow Homer
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tea and the polite amusements
To dip or to pour. that is the question…. The Tea Party felt it was better to pour tea into the waters around the Boston wharf. Maybe if they had poured water into the barrels of tea history would have … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged aleksei naumov, Christopher Hitchens, henry saville, John Lennon, john lennon tea, jonas hanway, Lewis Carroll, mary cassatt, richard collins artist, William Makepiece Thackeray, Yoko Ono
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men of property
Joseph Conrad characterized John Galsworthy as a moralist, someone who tended to betray instead of revealing ” the very truth of things.” In part, the sterling example of an ineffectual empathy, a sterile compassion that was reluctant to transform an … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adbusters, Arnold Bennett, attilio pusterla, edward garnett, Emma Goldman, galsworthy the silver box, giovacchino toma, giuseppe pellizza da volpedo, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, john galsworthy the pigeon, John Sloan, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath rebel sell, mary cassatt, Naomi Klein, ralph mctell streets of london, thomas frank the baffler, Virginia Woolf
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