Tag Archives: Max Beerbohm

distrusting the utopian prophets

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Dave

Its an odd way to define oneself: a tory anarchist. Maybe for max Beerbohm it was a reaction to the times; a refuge in this tidal wave of elitist white racist socialism that was so popularized by the likes of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Beatrice Webb, Charles Dickens, David Cecil, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Epstein, Kipling, Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

POMPEII: Dangerously Low Necklines

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Dave

When the ruins of Pompeii came to light, they caused a revolution in taste-stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving a deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi- although what sometimes passed for “classical” would have … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged A.O. Lovejoy, Beau Brummell, Boily, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, George Boas, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Francois Chalgrin Architect, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Keats, Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, Max Beerbohm, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Cosway, Robert Adam Architect, Roger Sandall, Sir Kenneth Clark | Leave a comment

THOSE ELUSIVE WHITE TIGERS

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Dave

” Oh East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet…” he wrote. ” But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed nor Birth,/When two strong men stand face to face”. The famous phrase … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Cecil Rhodes, Charles Dickens, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry James, J.G. Riewald, Mark Twain, Max Beerbohm, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Brittan, The Jungle Book, William Strang | 6 Comments

ALL SINGETH OF DISPIRITING THE HUMBUGS

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Dave

Bah! to the humbugs and the skeptics. To Santa, it is all about the voyage and not the destination. To the mere mortals,on a diet of hope and determination, its about reclaiming a piece of Paradise lost. A battle between … Continue reading →