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a country doctor: chasing the maid through the gallery
It is another odd Kafka story: A Country Doctor. And the story of another peculiar fellow: Bernard Berenson. The aesthete and art dealer/pundit of late nineteenth-early twentieth century who promoted and profited from selling Italian Renaissance art to the deep … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Mellon, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Ernest Samuels, Franz Kafka, Giovanni Morelli, isabella stewart gardner, joseph duveen, Kenneth Clark, Kurt Lewin, meryle secrest, Nicky Mariano, Pascal Bruckner, sandor gilman, Sylvia Sprigge
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berenson: such a deal
The whole thing was a scandal. Authenticating Old Master art, inflating the price, actig for the buyer and making commission as a seller. But there behavior probably reflected the same values and mannerisms of the wealthy industrial class they were … Continue reading
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Tagged Clive Bell, Erwin Panofsky, Fosco Maraini, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, joseph duveen, Leo Nardus, Lord Allendale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Morellian, P.A.B. Widener, Raphael, Richard Offner, Robert Langton Douglas, Roger Fry, Sir Charles Holmes, Wilhelm von Bode
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canvas and the pound of flesh
The rape of Europa by Titian is probably the most celebrated painting in the collection of Old Masters assembled by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the turn of the last century. It hangs, all 70×80 inches of it, in a heavy … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Berenson, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, King Philip II Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Otto Gutekunst, Robert Hughes, Sir Joseph Duveen, Titian The Rape of Europa
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lost highway: back to the city of the patriarchs
The self-hater. it has nothing to do with Gunter Grass’s stupid poem. His meta argument that its not the state its the government, is hoary socialist cant from the left; a socialist attacking Zionism is a family squabble at best. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anna freud, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Daniel Burros, Frank Collin, Franz Kafka, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Hebron, Gilbert Frankeau, Gunter grass, Hannah Arendt, Hebron expulsion, Hebron Passover 2012, Lucian Freud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Noam Arnon, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, The Groggers, William Loeb, Zionism Origins
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modigliani: mad, bad but a light burning bright
Very interesting take on a comparison between Modigliani and Picasso by Donald Kuspit. The point of departure could be Nietzsche’s oft-cited quote that “god is dead” and with him the head of morality also fell from the guillotine into the … Continue reading
self hatred: caging the instinct into decoration
Get Back. Get back to where you once belonged. Can art exist if it falls off the precipice into a void where there is no transformational effect on the individual and little or nothing to do with what constitutes the … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, jeffrey meyers, meryle secrest, Michel Foucault, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, rachael hayward, Simon Schama, steven fine
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modigliani: humanizing the dream within the dream
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
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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
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la boheme : mannered art without manners
Amedeo Modigliani. A minor modernist? ” All that was divine in Modigliani sparkled through a sort of gloom ” It is one of those only the good die young stories, terminating at the premature age of thirty-five. There was no … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, beatrice hastings, Caravaggio, Chaim Soutine, Constantin brancusi, Fernand Leger, georges bracque, Henri Matisse, jeanne hebuterne, Max Horkheimer, meryle secrest, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, soutine
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