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Tag Archives: Nathaniel Hawthorne
you can flee but you can’t hide
The first utopia was the Garden of Eden, but since no person knew what it was like, anyone may create it in their own image, the reason being an unhappiness with the world as it exists, pushing efforts to imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Brisbane, Brook Farm, Charles Fourier, Ellery Channing, George Ripley, Jeremy Bentham, John Humphrey Noyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oneida Community, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Social Reform Unity, William Heath
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they never die in paradise apparently. just resting, waiting….
It is certainly one of the most enduring archetypes. One that even Jung could not extricate all the wrinkles, folds and complications from…. It’s called the hybridized biography. Imagined conversations of the mothers of famous men who happen to be … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Carl Jung, Chaim Soutine, John Singer Sargent, Marc Chagall, mariana cook, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, natalie david-weil, natalie David-Weill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Marche, Steven Spielberg, valentin de Boulogne, Viktor Frankl
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the good life
Robert Owen built his own commune only to learn that transcendental ideals and prayer and sometimes group sex, are not in itself sufficient to weld a community together. Owen, a cotton mill owner in Scotland of progressive ideals dreamed of … Continue reading
soliloquy: photos of american monologues
Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation. Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading
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Tagged alec soth, alexander Farkas, Alexis de Tocqueville, Damien Hirst, Edgar Allen Poe, ellis washington, emily dickinson, Greil Marcus, Henry James, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, michael a. ledeen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, neal riemer, Walt Whitman
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DARK DREAMS: WRITING ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
The search for myth, for universal patterns is necessarily a search for the meaning of modern life. Or, it can be viewed as an attempt to escape from it. At this point Harlan Ellison’s quest becomes perilous and paradoxical in … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Charles Darwin, Ellen Weil, Eric Shanower, Erik Nelson, Gary K. Wolfe, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Herman Melville, Jacek Yerka, John Steinbeck, Josh Olson, Josh Wimmer, Lauren Davis, Lewis Wallace, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul di Flippo, William Blake
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UTOPIAN DREAMS & SCHEMES and IN-BETWEENS
What is Utopia and why does it attract both hope and skepticism in equal measure? In a way that appears meaningful, it is a productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive optimistic utopianism and a negative utopian pessimism. A … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Amy Boesky, Andrew Milner, Charles Fourier, Ernest Bloch, Ernst Bloch, Francis Bacon, Frederick Engels, George Ripley, Gilles Deleuze, Gordon Campbell, Herbert Marcuse, Hieronymous Bosch, James Harrington, John Humphrey Noyes, John Milton, Jonathan Berman Commune, Lou Gottleib, Margaret Fuller, Michael Simmons Huffington Post, Michel Foucault, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New harmony, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Peter Simon, Richard Wagner, Robert Appelbaum, Robert Owen, Samuel Gott, Sara Davidson, Simon Schama, Sir Thomas More, Theodor Adorno, Thomas N. Corns, Walter Benjamin
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SHARPEN YOUR KNIFE & SOFTEN YOUR TONGUE
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s final novel was the ”The Marble Faun” and was inspired and strung together from his notebook that he kept in Rome. The intensity of the subject matter and its interplay between the Jewish and Christian themes within a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Arch of Titus, Ark of the Covenant, artemisia Gentileschi, Augustus Kolich, Biblical Jael, Biblical Judith, Biblical Salome, David reynolds, David S. Reynolds, Emperor Vespasian, Herb Mandel, Lucas Cranach, Menorah of the temple, Mortara Incident, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pope Pius IX, Reuven Kashani, Sandro Botticelli, Temple Menorah, The Marble Faun, Thomas Cooley
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