Tag Archives: Paul Valery

Dreyfus: forging the vital lie

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Dave

Necessity now took over entirely. New military blunders and new leaks had to occur. Six months later, just as a new war minister was preparing to have the Dreyfusard leadership put on trial for conspiracy against the security of the … Continue reading →

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take five with the marquise

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

Disrupted momentum. A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Claude Mauriac, Durrel Alexandria Quartet, eugene atget, Francois Mauriac, Gabriel Josipovici, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Cartier-Bresson, James Joyce, James Joyce Ulysses, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Paul Valery, Rene Magritte, T.S. Eliot, The Art of Noise, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

five O’clock paris … one hour and one spot

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave

The “experimental novel” of Claude Mauriac. The Marquise Went Out at Five. Paul Valery, asked why he never embarked on a novel said, “I could not bear to write down the words, ‘The Marquise Went Out At Five.’” A poet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, French experimental literature, Laurent Terzieff, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Paul Valery, the velvet underground | Leave a comment

MANET & MORISOT: AMBIGUITY BETWEEN PLEASURE AND DESIRE

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Dave

“For Realist painters at mid-century, the experience of the senses was not something to be allegorized. It was something to be given to the viewer full-on. Such a statement became a philosophical position. It was part of the materialist view of the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Ann Higonnet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Daniel Rosenfeld, David Halperin, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, George Heard Hamilton, George Moore, Henri Matisse, John Rewald, Lin Arison, Lisa MacDonald, Michel Foucault, Nancy Locke, Neil Folberg, Paul Alexis, Paul Valery, Shane Adler Davis, Suzanne Leenhoff, Tim Marlow, Victorine Meurent | Leave a comment

MOLLUSKS & MIGHTY APHRODITE

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Dave

To the deceptively simple lessons of nature, humankind has turned repeatedly for renewal, self discovery, and a glimpse of their place in the great nature of things. Few creations of the natural world have served so well and widely in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Aphrodite, Benvenuto Cellini, conchology, Edgar Allen Poe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, Leonardo Da Vinci, Paul Valery, Sevres Porcelain | Leave a comment

ABSURDLY DEAD IN THE PRESENT TENSE

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Dave

In France, it is even possible to remain a writer without writing, as Rimbaud did, living in the consciousness of his contemporaries after his premature creative death, or Valery during his seventeen year silence. So passionately does France hold literature … Continue reading →