Tag Archives: Richard Dorment

ghosts of bordeaux: deceptions and perceptions

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Dave

A seventy-seven year old Francisco Goya left Spain for France in 1823; he still held his position as first painter to the court, but even so, with the final triumph of Ferdinand, he had gone into seclusion. Goya saw Spain … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alan Woods, Albert Camus, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Fred Licht, Goya Bordeaux period, Jesse Bering, Philip Hofer, Reva Wolf, Richard Dorment, Sarah Symmons, Sigmund Freud, Victor Hugo | Leave a comment

LURKING DISASTERS THAT AWAIT ALL GOOD MEN

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Dave

Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold’s for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged C.J. Rawson, Cervantes, Claude Rawson, Francisco Goya, G.M. Godden, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, James Gillray, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Mary Vidal, Oliver Goldsmith, Pablo Picasso, Paul Baines, Richard Dorment, Robert Walpole, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian Venus of Urbino, William Makepiece Thackeray, William Shenstone | Leave a comment

$ AS A READY-MADE : TZANCK You For The CHECKS

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dave

Conceptual art will soon be one hundred years old and it is arguably viewed with as much suspicion now as it was in 1917 when Marcel Duchamp first submitted a signed urinal for inclusion in an art show in New … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Anish Kapoor, Anna Davin, Berel Lang, Brooke Lundquist, Carlo Ginzburg, Carolee Thea, Chris Evans, Damien Hirst, Dennis Oppenheim, Francis Picabia, Gustav Metzger, Jacques Derrida, Jean Crotti, Jean Doucet, John Cage, John Weretka, Julien Levy, Katherine Dreir, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Man Ray, Marc Quinn, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Duchamps, Michel Foucault, Nelson Goodman, Olav Velthuis, Peter Burger, Rachael Milsk, Richard Dorment, Roland Barthes, Thiher, Thomas Andrae, Walter Arensberg, Walter Hopps | Leave a comment

LANGUAGE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Dave

By detaching art from aesthetics,Marcel Duchamp set it spinning on a different course from the one it had followed since the Renaissance. His concept of the ready-made work of art came out of the blue. It could not have been … Continue reading →