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goncourt recollections
…As it turned out, however, it was none of these things that rescued the Goncourts from “oblivion.” It was, rather, their Journals — the scandalous, vain, vengeful, brutally honest diaries in which the two brothers, and then Edmond alone, wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Faubert, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Brothers journal, Gustave Courbet, Guy de Maupassant, Henri de Regnier, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Swinburne, Victor Hugo
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the wilde bunch
by Art Chantry: oscar wilde’s gravestone. noted without comment… any ideas on who designed it? there was an amazingly beautiful mausoleum in a cemetery in st.louis that was designed by louis sullivan (for a mistress of a local beer baron.) … Continue reading
give a little
It seems that all economics of poverty in the market system, whether capitalism or communism there exists a stratification of money or privilege. And within economics, particularly the Western version, charity is considered an elective, though praiseworthy act since poverty … Continue reading
distrusting the utopian prophets
Its an odd way to define oneself: a tory anarchist. Maybe for max Beerbohm it was a reaction to the times; a refuge in this tidal wave of elitist white racist socialism that was so popularized by the likes of … Continue reading
shapes of things
Toward the middle of the 1890’s H.G. Wells began writing reviews, articles and stories. But he was not consciously starting a literary career. After all, he was a science instructor. But, an illness forced him out of teaching, and he … Continue reading
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Tagged Fabian Society, G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, science fiction history, society for psychical research, Thorstein Veblen
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matters of taste and waste
Artistic dependency on money? Art as a cash crop, growing money and not the fertility of artistic endeavor. The effects of urban , cosmopolitan culture on the arts probably stretched back to the Renaissance, but it may have been Watteau … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anthony Trollope, Charles Baudelaire, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith
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A toast to dorian gray
Is our post-modern condition characterized by an instilling of youthfulness into an ancient world. A rejuvenation of creaky old bones. Baudelaire wrote of youth as a sort of priesthood, at least according to the young. Youth is a fetish, a … Continue reading
he was not a she: sublimation of desire
Great Shakes. The Shakespeare industry. A large thriving occupation keeping out literature departments on the cutting edge of world leadership. Mix that with the present trend for “authenticity” a search for the genuine and we have the makings of a … Continue reading
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Tagged abel gance, Cyril Graham, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Bloom, john donne, John Hudson Dark lady Players, John Hudson Shakespeare, Michael Posner Globe and Mail, Oscar Wilde, professor stanley wells, Richard Halpern, rodrigo lopez execution, Sigmund Freud, Sir John Donne, Walter Benjamin
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help
George Takei:A fan’s suggested alternate title. But Viola Davis was still sublime, IMHO. Oscar Wilde: Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation. Slavery was put down in America, not in consequence of any action … Continue reading
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Tagged george takei, Oscar Wilde, the help movie racism, viola davis, viola davis the help
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safe harbor for captain broke
Mitt Romney under siege for not having the common touch. For not paying sufficient taxes. For not appearing to have any interest in the poor and their sort. There is a tug of war between what economist Schumpeter termed the … Continue reading