Tag Archives: Nicholas Wade

trampling on the idea of progress

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dave

Is history without meaning, without power and without hope ? … …Even if professionals hold up their hands in horror at the idea of drawing lessons from history, others, far less capable, do not. Toynbee had no hesitation in trampling … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anne Askew, Arnold Toynbee, Caleb Stegall, Edward Albee, F.R. Leavis, Francis Bacon, Gemalde von Albert Anker, Girolamo da Treviso, Jared Diamond, Lawrwnce H. Keeley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Nicholas Wade, Oswald Spengler, War of Kappel, Zwingli Protestant alliance | Leave a comment

side show inuit: looking for nelvana

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dave

When things start off on the wrong foot, its tough to reconcile and make amends… Primitive people and prehistoric violence do seem to have a symbiotic relationship. Untouched by the dogged moral strivings, the clear demarcation between right and wrong, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged adrian dingle, Anthony Quinn, bob dylan the mighty quinn, christopher hall baffin island, franz boas, franz johnston group of seven, inuit legend nelvana, Jared Diamond, Lawrence H. Keeley, life of nelvana, Lucien m. turner, martin frobisher, Nicholas Wade, Norman Rockwell, steven a. leblanc, the savage innocents 1959 | Leave a comment

tattoo you: the girl from Oonalaska

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dave

A kind of proximity to nature, the spirit world, the absence of boundaries where the human and the animal engaged one another in various guises of transference and inhabiting the physical body. Combinations of profound science fiction with ancient pagan … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Inuit culture, James ross inuit, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, john webber engravings, Lawrence H. Keeley, Nicholas Wade, waldemar bogoras | Leave a comment

on thin ice with the mighty quinn

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dave

We pine for authenticity. The real . The genuine, wanting to graft ourselves onto it as part of an expression of our individuality. Or do we? It has to conform to our idea of it. Rousseau’s Noble Savage has to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Potter, Anthony Quinn, Antonin Artaud, battle of sitka, Bob Dylan, franz boas, hans ruesch, james ross and awack, James ross inuit, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, louis s. glanzman, Lucien m. turner, manfred mann the mighty quinn, Nicholas Wade, steven a. leblanc, suzuki sled commercial, the savage innocents 1959 | 1 Comment

eskimo pie in the sky

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

Cheerful and adorable or primitive and lacking hygiene and “morals”. Such is the defined public persona of the Inuit or more derogatively, the Eskimo. Like pets. Cuddly. Except when they pee on the floor. Guilt at the extermination of tribal … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anthony Quinn, bagel advertising, cantor's bagel advertising, eskimo nell, Inuit Art, Inuit culture, Jared Diamond, max gillies actor, Nicholas Wade, richard franklin director, Robert Flaherty, Sam Huntington, serge lazaroff, the residents eskimo, the true story of eskimo nell | Leave a comment

guess whose coming to dinner?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Dave

Does our modern society indicative of a lowering of human freedom and a degradation of the environment or does our science charged culture represent an emancipation from primitive conflict and ignorance? … From an article on researching authenticity and populism. … Continue reading →