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leading the blind
Different stages of falling. Trust, surprise and then shock. The Church in the background is a symbol to invoke the risks in straying from the church? Perhaps. Bruegel demonstrates that the natural, uncivilized realm of man is a constituent element … Continue reading
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screen test: tea ceremony in kyoto
scoOne of the central pieces in what could be termed Japanese Renaissance art, are two six-panel folding Japanese screens whose images merge together to form an aerial view of the city of Kyoto in the sixteenth- century. The technique, which … Continue reading
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Tagged art of the samurai, avery brundage collection, edo period, edo period japan, Gustav Klimt, honda tadakatsu, japan momoyama period, kozu kobunka museum kyoto, kyoto art history, kyoto history, morikami museum, Pieter Brueghel, scott eyman, toyotomi hideyoshi
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bosch: strawberry fields nor ever
A cursing of those fanatical, demented, crazed…tormentors and executioners….The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch has certainly puzzled viewers. It is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic paintings ever done. Only five hundred years later has its meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged Erasmus, Erich Fromm, Ernst Bloch, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin
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STORYTELLERS IN THE FOREST: Making Peace With The Power Of Death
Freud said of folk tales that they contain “the dreams of the human race.” One of these dreams is about the simple good prevailing over the subtle wicked. Most of the stories that the Grimm brothers collected are lay moral … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Brothers Grimm, Brueghel the Elder, Carpenter, E.B. Taylor, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Lisa Falzon, Marc Chagall, Nikolai Lesskow, Nin Harris, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, Pieter Brueghel, Richard Wagner, Robert Darnton, Saul Bellow, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Benfey, Tom Davenport, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Grimm
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LITERALLY EATING OUR SPIRITS
Since ancient times, when sickly children were left outside to die from exposure, euthanasia has been practiced, debated or condemned by various societies. Much of it involves around shortage of food and elitist thinking such as the economist Malthus. In … Continue reading
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