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painting: hewers of wood and drawers of H2O
Hewers of wood and drawers of water. That is the traditional and somewhat pejorative view of Canada. And although Canada likes to think of themselves as a global “soft power” and memeber of the Group of Eight ( G8 ) … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin West, benjamin west general wolfe, Conrad Black, Daler-Rowney system 3, daler-rowney system 3 heavy body, harold innis, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art supplies, Northrop Frye, Paul Kane, paul kane art
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color and the language of second nature
The power of color. Is color more a presence than a sign, a force, ” the most sacred element of all visible things.” Is color primary and not secondary to form? Is color fundamentally involved in the making of culture … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Goethe, John Ruskin, John Verelst, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, Paul Kane, Philip Roth, Philip Whalen, Primo Levi, sidney nolan art, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs
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homespun
no comment needed; its really the portrait of the ugly American, white upwardly mobile yuppie that you would want to feet to a pack of starving jackals. Or people so caught up in hierarchy and invidious comparison that they have … Continue reading
political theatre: the extent to which life is unrepresentable
Can dissidence be accomplished through the ballot box? Does voting actually change anything? As Canadians put aside their donuts and hockey to contemplate the election on May 3, a new bogeyman has emerged on the national agenda; quietly slipping into … Continue reading
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Tagged brett grundlock, George Woodcock, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacques Derrida, justin trudeau, Michael Ignatieff, Northrop Frye, Paul Kane, Rick Salutin, Stephen Harper
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America fit for man and beast: they had a dream?
They all came to look for America….. “Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together.” “I’ve got some real estate here in my bag.” So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies And we walked off … Continue reading
HUCKSTERS & HYPERBOLE
To Europeans intellectuals of the eighteenth century, America was a battleground of ideas; the war between Nature and civilization.And its proponents did not mince words. Respected academics like Comte de Buffon reported that domesticated animals imported from Europe as well … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Albert Gallatin, Aztecs, Christopher Columbus, Comte de Buffon, Crevecoeur, Diderot, E. Adamson Hoebel, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Incas, John Trudell, John White Art, Lord Fitzgerald, Paul Kane, Rationalism and Romanticism, Voltaire, Voltaire Candide, william R. Leigh
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