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imaginary museum
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Andre Malraux recalled Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shares their infatuation with the past, their conviction that it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andre Malraux, Arnold Toynbee, Clara Malraux, Ernst Gombrich, Germaine Krull, Imaginary Museum Malraux, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Chevasson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Oswald Spengler, stieg larsson
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malraux: patterns across the universe
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Malraux recalls Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shared their infatuation with the past, their conviction it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, he shared … Continue reading
across the great divide: leave it behind
Early in the twentieth century Oswald Spengler, in The Decline of the West, wrote of the irreversible historical pattern of growth, flowering, withering, and decay that has marked the destiny of every known civilization and is, he said, now undoing … Continue reading
trampling on the idea of progress
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
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avoiding the seductive charms of despair
“Returning form Syracuse?” ….Four hundred years ago, the French “politiques” advanced the novel, and totally subversive notion of the time that people of different religious persuasions could live together, in peace, in the same country and under the same sovereign. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged daniel ludwig, Ernest Juenger, Frank Stella art, Friedrich Nietzsche, friedrich schelling, gadamer, Hannah Arendt, Hegel Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Oswald Spengler, Otto Dix, The Enlightenment, Voltaire
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summer of discontent: is the end near?
” The nature of people is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.” ( Vico) People have no doubt been bemoaning the decadence of the times since the expulsion from the Garden. But what actually constitutes decadence … Continue reading
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Tagged Adorno, American Apparel advertising, American Apparel banned ad, anne brockinton, Arnold Toynbee, Bruce Mazlish, calvin klein advertising, Carolee Schneemann, henri Bergson, Max Horkheimer, Natacha Stolz, Oswald Spengler, robert m. lee, Russell Smith, the NRA, vico
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history undone:android basterds
A vision of the primeval past wandering out of an imaginary forest of pre-historic times, lost in quirk of time. Yes, its the same notorious auroch found in the cave of Lascaux in southern France. The ferocious wild ancestor of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alex Constantine, allan hall, auroch cattle, bobby sands, Charles Darwin, Emile Durkheim, eric vogelin, ernst haekl, fountain of life program, Francis Galton, Friedrich Nietzsche, joel whitebook, katie drummond, Lascaux Cave, lutz and heinz heck, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, Michel Houlebecq, Oswald Spengler, paul theroux, Sigmund Freud, simon de bruxelles, the island of lost souls movie, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hobbes
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