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Tag Archives: Richard Halpern
A toast to dorian gray
Is our post-modern condition characterized by an instilling of youthfulness into an ancient world. A rejuvenation of creaky old bones. Baudelaire wrote of youth as a sort of priesthood, at least according to the young. Youth is a fetish, a … Continue reading
innocent no more
To follow up on Rockwell, and digress further into some of the implications brought up by Richard Halpern in his book, The Underside of Innocence, we of course cannot confirm the theory posited by him, but there does appear to … Continue reading
norman the negotiator
Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, David Bowie, Doris Day, Francis Bacon, Frank Capra, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J.D. Salinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Sigmund Freud
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he was not a she: sublimation of desire
Great Shakes. The Shakespeare industry. A large thriving occupation keeping out literature departments on the cutting edge of world leadership. Mix that with the present trend for “authenticity” a search for the genuine and we have the makings of a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged abel gance, Cyril Graham, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Bloom, john donne, John Hudson Dark lady Players, John Hudson Shakespeare, Michael Posner Globe and Mail, Oscar Wilde, professor stanley wells, Richard Halpern, rodrigo lopez execution, Sigmund Freud, Sir John Donne, Walter Benjamin
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happy days: manufacture of innocence
Halfway through the 1950’s , in the summer of 1955, Life ran an article entitled Nobody is Mad With Nobody.” In the text, in which, next to photographs of things like two car suburban garages marked “his” and “hers”, the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Caril Fugate, Charlie Starkweather, elmo roper, Fred J. Cook, Friedrich Nietzsche, gil elvgren, Helen Levitt, James Dean, John Updike, jules aarons, kevin phillips, Norman Rockwell, president eisenhower, Richard Halpern, Rick Salutin, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, the 1950's, Tim Roth, tim roth murder in the heartland
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disavowal & those secret places:longing for the infinite childhood
Is innocence a deep seated habit, a synthetic DNA of being in denial of what one knows but steadfastly refuses to acknowledge? Is innocence a manufactured good? A commodity among many competitors? Its a disabling of experience. Its one of … Continue reading
growing up absurd: disavowals of innocence
In Jan Miense Molenaer’s “The Smoker” from the 1620’s, viewers have an up-close regard on merrymakers, where children are inserted as metaphors for adult behavior. There is a capturing of the spirit of the figures through actions and facial expressions.The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Adele Enersen, Charles Baudelaire, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Honoré Fragonard, Jan Miense Molenaar, Jan Miense Molenaer, Jan Steen, Nina maria Kleivan, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Walter Benjamin
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Denial of Paradise Lost
” To be more specific: the ‘potentially disturbing’ materials Rockwell offers to view are often sexual in nature, even perverse…Rockwell’s paintings, I’ ve found, are able to induce a kind of hysterical blindness in many viewers, who can’t or won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Before the Shot, Mark Jenkins, Norman Rockwell, Richard Halpern, Rosie the Riveter
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