Tag Archives: Matthias Grunewald

jailbird love songs

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Dave

All the arguments for de-legitimizing Israel are fair game. Not for the supposed and ostensible reasons we usually hear, excessive violence, and  racism for example,  but because the country is totally inept, and for its own security and those of … Continue reading →

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the fallen: paradox of the soul

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dave

The Belgian film Hasta La Vista, about three disabled young men on a road trip in Spain’s wine country to lose their virginity in a specialty bordello, has been getting some critical acclaim, most notably, the grand prize  at the … Continue reading →

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abberations from the ideal form

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Dave

The German realist movement or broader German expressionist movement of the post WWI era that popularly characterizes Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann, and then links them into a category of depictions of corruption and a largesse of lifestyle … Continue reading →

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MARRIED TO TEMPTATION

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Dave

”Marriage without love, is the Compleatest Misery in life. Besides, I must say, it is to me utterly unlawful, and entails a Curse upon the persons, as being wilfully perjured, invoking the Name of GOD to a falsehood, which is … Continue reading →

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ANXIETY AS SHARP AS A TOOTHPICK

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Dave

What me worry?The Beats, the banks, the bulls and the bears. That the world might suddenly end is not a new anxiety, but an eternally recurring old anxiety that is continually renewed. The testimony of Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman-Sachs … Continue reading →

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GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Dave

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ‘‘Social Contract”  was a theoretical blueprint for a society of equals.It was at once a return to original sin within a society of unequals.It was an apex for the planet of the apes of civilization.It was a … Continue reading →

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FROM CRAFTSMAN TO GENTLEMAN: AN ALLEGORICAL PREMISE

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Dave

Albrecht Durer( 1471-1528 ) is usually called the greatest German artist, despite the importance accorded to Matthias Grunewald, whose more wild and fantastic fervor, even hallucinatory art, is more to the modern taste than Durer’s methodical exploration of the world … Continue reading →

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