Tag Archives: Michael Kimmelman

the republic on the flying trapeze

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dave

the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading →

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alchemy of art: jangling the keys of solomon

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Dave

With secret sound. The liberation of the subjective self. Magic squares and alchemy in art lending hermetic interpretations to deciphering works of art.It was the irresistible lure of certain of the Magic Squares of the Third Book, and their tendency … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan schechner, anna freud, calvin tomkins, Donald Kuspit, eliphas levi, elliott barowitz, Florine Stettheimer, francis m. naumann, Heinrich Hoffmann, katherine dreier, katherine s. dreier, MacGregor-Mathers, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, Michael Kimmelman, otto fenichel, rudolf herz, Rudolf Steiner, Walter Arensberg, Wassily Kandinsky, willaim agee | Leave a comment

SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dave

During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, Carr W. Dawson, Charles Hope, Correggio, Dan Starling, David Byron, David Landau, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Coppel, Giorgio Vasari, Giuseppe Fiocco, Iris Origo, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, Jane Martineau, Jason Burke, Jonathan Sawday, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Leon Battista Alberti, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Kimmelman, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, R.W. Lightbown, Rembrandt, Robert Smith, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Abrahams, Sir Kenneth Clark, Squarcione, Stephen Greenblatt, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Venerable Bede | Leave a comment

MANTEGNA & CULTURAL REVOLUTION: Psychology of Perspective

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dave

After all not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free, To fill the: gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire, Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Barbara Kruger, Barbara Sparti, Carola Naumer, Charles Hope, Dan Starling, David Byron, David G. Wilkins, David Landau, David Rosand, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Edgar Wind, Edward Lucie-Smith, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Gentile Bellini, Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Bellini, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacopo Bellini, Jay A. Levinson, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Mantegna, Michael Kimmelman, Michael Vickers, Miriana Ilieva, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, Phyllis Williams Lehman, Rosalind Krauss, Sanford Schwartz, Simon Abrahams, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

MANTEGNA: ANCIENT RITES MEET CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES …

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Dave

… or agonies in the Garden.He antagonized conventional orthodox theology. Mantegna was one of the most important historical thinkers of his time. He brought to his understanding of painting as historical narrative, a new sense of the past, like that … Continue reading →