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three way street: la “swell” province
A three-way street is how the Quebec election finished showcasing the strengths and pitfalls of third parties and fairly vigorous identification with the democratic process. All three top finishers, who had a near even separation of popular vote, are going … Continue reading
enlightenment by design: build a better world?
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Arthur Gobineau, Ben Grasso, Friedrich Nietzsche, giovanni battista vico, Herder linguist, Horace Walpole, John Maynard Keynes, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer, Paul Gauguin, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire
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absolute shower of gold
Van Gogh spent a little more than two years in Arles and its environs, painting the burning light and indelible shadows of Arles… The city languished under the Provencal sun, adding to its collection of interesting buildings during the Renaissance … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Sheon, Arles Vincent van Gogh, Fernand Leger, Gilbert Rose, John Gedo, Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, monks of montmajour, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Rembrandt, Van Ens dutch engineer, Van Gogh Arles, Vincent Van Gogh
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in search of paradise
In our shrinking globe it appears more difficult to find those elusive Shangri-la’s. Do a few endure, besides deep in our imagination, the longing and desire for the unfettered and fulfilling life, that special place where no one wants to … Continue reading
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
in the pink
When Henri Matisse painted the Pink Blouse in 1924, he was a successfully established artist living in comfort in Nice. Some twenty years earlier, at another Mediterranean seaport, he had to struggle to shape his own distinctive style. It was … Continue reading
poussin the golden: divine means of abstract geometrical truth
He tried to live in France from 1640-42, called back by King Louis XIII and the urging of Cardinal Richelieu who felt it imperative that France had greater artistic luster.Claude Lorrain was also compelled to return. Poussin had been appointed … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bernini, Cardinal Richelieu, Claude Levi-Strauss, Claude Lorrain, Clement Greenberg, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Keith Christiansen, king louis XIII, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, Sir Kenneth Clark
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surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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Paradox: searches for paradise
Where would you rather be? On a spacecraft heading towards a lifeless moon or planet or aboard a bouncing raft constructed as in ancient times? An unabashed romantic. But, complete escape is impossible though the very attempt has its infectious … Continue reading
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Tagged arnold jacoby, dr. gordon ekholm, dr. herbert spinden, dr. martin rundkvist, dr. michael d. coe, erik hesselberg, herman watzinger, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Joshua Glenn, kon-tiki expedition, Len Lye, Paul Gauguin, samuel k. lothrop, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler
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