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dark ages: maybe not that dark after all
It seems ironic that the Renaissance and later the Enlightenment should be the periods associated with the persecution of witches, a kind of phenomenon, a systematic cult that was invented out of thin air. it was the persecution of women, … Continue reading
heretics and art: unorthodox conceptions
We seem to be living in the age of the heretic. The orthodox Church of heresy.Is the new heresy to accept that there are many rules? Is it a heresy to swim with the tide? Are those “rebels” really actually … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Certosa di Pavia, Chris Burden, E.H. Gombrich, Edmund Gurney, Edward Gibbon, Eleanor Heartney, Erasmus, Gale Iain, joel-peter witkin, John Vicar, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Paul Rubens, Protestant Reformation, Puritan England, seth godin
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BONFIRE OF THE DIVINITIES
640 A.D. : According to legend, the caliph Omar burned all 200,000 volumes in the library at Alexandria in Egypt. In doing so, he said: “If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God they are useless … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Brian Ward, Christopher Hitchens, David Petraeus, Elias Canetti, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Francois Truffaut, Glenn Beck, Heinrich Heine, Hilary Clinton, Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf, John Lennon, Kat Dibbits, Konrad yakabuski, Martin Luther, Mel Gibson, Pastor Terry Jones, Protestant Reformation, Ray Bradbury, Robert Fulford, Sarah Palin, Savonarola, Steve Bandera, The Beatles, truffaut, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, Yevgeniy Dubovik
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BLINDFOLD TEST FOR BEWITCHING IDEAS:CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH FUZZY WARBLES
Marketing and advertising wars are often drawn out, protracted affairs giving credence to the expression “War is hell;but who knew it looked like crap? It is entertaining when no one follows the modern version of the Marquess of Queensbury rules … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Bothwell, Calvinism, Chastelard, Claude Nau, Clive Owen, D.O. Hunter Blair, David Rizzio, Douglas Wilson, EasyJet, Frenchman Chastelard, Glenda Jackson, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Henry Cowan, Henry Lord Darnley, Jamba Juice, james Hamilton, James Hepburn, John Erskine, John Knox, Jone Johnson Lewis, Lesley Smith, Lord Darnley, Martin Luther, Mary Queen of Scots, mary Stuart, Mary Tudor, Matt Perry, Protestant Reformation, Queen Elizabeth I, Reformation Scotland, Renaissance, Rizzio, Robert Mugabe, Ronsard French poet, Ronsard poet, Rosalind K. Marshal, Tom Hollander, Vanessa Redgrave, W.P. Frith
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GENIUS: A CONDITION OF POWER and HELPLESSNESS
The times they were a’ changing. Albrecht Durer’s goal was to expand the expressive range of German art by bringing it to the expressive disciplines of the Renaissance. The vistas of the Alps, and the breadth and vigor of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Bible, Book of Revelations, Engraving, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, John Read, Martin Luther, Michelangelo, New testament, Protestant Reformation, Raphael, Scott Horton, silverpoint
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