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Oscar and the academy specter of death: just drink it like socrates
Its a metaphor for orgasm. Sex and death. The French term it “le petite mort” or the little death, where sex and death are linked from the spiritual release that comes with orgasm. As the Oscars get handed out, are … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Watson, Debra A. Sandler, Diane Keaton, Ernest Becker, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Jean Paul Sartre, Margaux Williamson, Otto Dix, Otto Rank, Peter Falk, Peter Greenaway, Robert Warshow, Socrates, Stuart Elliott, Tim Roth, Woody Allen
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claudel: before the poison
She was seventeen and wanted to be a sculptor. He was forty-one. He was Auguste Rodin on the verge of taking to the heights of the French art world, being compared to genius of Michelangelo. He had overcome the major … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Schindler, Auguste Rodin, Bernini, Camille Claudel, Emile Zola, Julia Baudin, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Cassat, Otto Rank, Paul Claudel, Rose Beurat, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Zola
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leda and the black swan: daddy’s little princess on the lake
Is ballet dying or is it just an appropriate metaphor for death? Are we in love with the idea of ballet and all it stands for or are we repulsed by the obscure side that is in juxtaposition to its … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Rudolph Wiertmuller, Auguste Vestris, Black Swan movie, Darren Aronofsky, Edgar Degas, Elisabeth Maurin, Francois Boucher, Fred Astaire, Gaetano Vestris, Harriet Hoctor, Jennifer Homans, Katharine Kanter, Leni Riefenstahl, Margaux Williamson, Natalie Portman, Otto Rank, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sigmund Freud, Willaim Forsythe
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every good work of art is a kind of joke
“No , the French spirit will never live in this German larva, in this beer-filled thing which is at the Salon.” wrote a rival sculptor in the “Revue de Monde Catholique”. Others dubbed Rodin “the Michelangelo of the goiter”. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Elsen, Auguste Rodin, Diego Rivera, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Emile Zola, Honore de Balzac, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Moses, Otto Rank, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud
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THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE PHOENIX
The twenty somethings. The Generation Y of his time. The Harry Potter infected mania of the Hapsburgs and the first faint scent of a nostalgic return. Wolfgang Amadeus “Quidditch of Music” Mozart. His patience finally snapped when he was made … Continue reading
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Tagged Beaumarchais, Beaumarche, Carlos Saura, Constance Weber, Figaro, Franz Nemecek, Harry Potter, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart, Otto Rank, Quidditch, Robert Louis Stevenson, The marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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