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temper tantrics: yab yum for all
Because Tantric art is meant to serve a religious, rather than an aesthetic purpose, and because artists believed that they acquired spiritual merit by copying prototypes, the art has not greatly changed over the centuries. The emphasis is not on … Continue reading
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Tagged Aditya Arya, Brad Warner, Buddhism Himalaya, David Chapman, Donald Fagen, Eileen Kernaghan, Genpo Roschi, Gerhard Heym, James Stanten Taylor, Jenna Swann, Jeremy Khan, John Powers, Judith Simmer-Brown, N.F. Karlins, Rubin Museum, Steely Dan, Tantric Buddhism, Tom Landon, Walter Becker
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thunderbolts- cosmic tantric devices
Both in Hindu and in Buddhist Tantric beliefs, the duality of the sexes was developed with particular emphasis. One of the cardinal doctrines was the worship of the spiritual-sexual principle: the union of opposites. Dhyana, or meditation as abstract thought, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aditya Arya, Brad Warner, Buddhism, David Chapman, Gerhard Heym, Henry David Thoreau, James Standen taylor, Jeremy Khan, John Powers, Martin Buber, N.F. Karlins, Rubin Museum, Tantric Buddhism, Tom Landon
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Taras and Bodhisattvas: long ago and far away
In the high Himalaya, mountain demons and Hindu deities fused with the Buddhist vision to create a magical art…. One of the last great remote areas of the world are the wind-swept mountain walled valleys of the Himalaya. Here a … Continue reading
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Tagged Aditya Arya, Brad Warner, Buddhism, Buddhism Himalaya, David Chapman, Genpo Roshi, James Standen taylor, Jane vance, Jenna Swann, Jeremy Khan, N.F. Karlins, Ribin Museum of Art, Rubin Museum, Tantric Buddhism, Tom Landon
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MAYAN TAILGATE PARTY: Ritual of the Naked Lunch
“A carved altar is displayed for its acrobat iconography; omitted is recognition of its function as a slaying stone. On altars like this, a sacrificial victim was laid on his back, arms and legs held down, while an executioner knifed … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Skira, Dr. Samuel Lothrop, Eric S. Thompson, Esther Pasztory, Holland Cotter, Holland Cotter New York Times, Joel Skidmore, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Mario Naves, Maureen Mullarkey, Maya Tikal, Mayan Calendar, Mayan Cannibalism, Mayan human sacrifice, Mel Gibson, Michael D. Coe, N.F. Karlins, Stan Parchin
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WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING
There is always two contradictory dimensions which Watteau’s paintings contain. On the one hand there is melancholy pleasure signifying sadness, the metaphysics of pleasure; on the other hand, a libertine pleasure without any metaphysical meaning, pleasure which signifies only itself: … Continue reading
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Tagged André Campra, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Houdard de la Motte, Charles Le Brun, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Gérard de Nerval, Jacques Callot, Jean Antoine Houdard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Sev, Thomas Crow, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth
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WATTEAU & UTOPIA ON STANDBY: THE GHOSTS OF STYLE
Should we let bygones be bygone eras?These are precious, because Watteau’s paintings so unmistakably draw meaning from and give memorable form to a certain now far distant subculture.He is a master of in-between situations….Watteau introduced just such a change of … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvin Seerveld, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Giovanni Morelli, James Panero, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Jonathan Wintle, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Lacan, Lisa MacDonald, Marcel Duchamp, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Perrin Stein, Pierre Rosenberg, Robert Baldwin, Robert Mealy, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Cohen, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Crow, Watteau
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