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saint joan of kitsch: kicking the rehab can
The Protestants of the sixteenth century saw Joan of Arc as the Joan of the Rehabilitation “tainted with idolatry,” identified with Church and King. They destroyed every representation of her upon which they could lay their hands. Swedes in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged David Hume, George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan, Hermann Stilke, Hermann Stilke Joan of Arc, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, Joan of Arc Rehabilitation, Joan of Arc The Maid, Joan of Arc Trial, Jules Quicherat, Luc Besson director, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Leroy painter, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, Pope Calixtus III, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Bernhardt Joan of Arc, The Messenger movie, The Vigils of Charles VII
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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Cabanel Birth of Venus, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Emperor Napoleon III, French Salon Art, John Wolfe banker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rosa Bonheur, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir Edwin Landseer
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full circle
Sometimes things become intertwined in a full circle that initially escapes us since the assumed understanding is based on enlightenment principles guided by the linear progression of science and technology where evolution is rational and explainable. In Donald Kuspit’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, Francis Bacon, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Norman Rockwell, odd nerdrum, Sarah Bernhardt
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human oh too human
A funny and peculiar war it was. Especially in wartime Vichy Paris which stretched the lexicon of all the imaginative permutations that plumbed the bottom of French culture. The complexities of that particular context were splendidly shrewd and also quite … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article
Tagged Alain Resnais, Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Dreyfus Affair, henri Bergson, jacqueline delubac, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel Ophul, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, robert brasillach, Sacha Guitry, Sarah Bernhardt
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just lookin’ for a kiss
Is it true that women in the entertainment business are deterred from being funny. From being comic. Is the mixture of being beautiful and funny too combustible a substance to let out of the yard? Or is it because women … Continue reading
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Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Audrey Hepburn, Berthe Morisot, Betty Friedan, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Hitchens, Dorothy Parker, Feminism, Fran Leibowitz, Fritz Lang, Henry Makow, Jean Renoir, Joan Rivers, Laurel Nakadate, Leah McLaren, Natalie Portman, Nora Ephron, Sarah Bernhardt, sylvia plath, Walter Benjamin
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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, art chantry, Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Corot, David Phillips, Emile Zola, Fred Inglis, Gainsborough, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vermet, Horace Vernet, Joshua Reynolds, Madonna, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mark Beech, Martin Rubin, Mary Shelley, Michel Carné, Mozart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough
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BANNING THE CORSET: PANTALOON LIBERATION FRONT
Banning the corset and into the harem. Read my Body. “From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think that there is only practical consequence, we have to create ourselves as a work of art.” ( … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Jenks Bloomer, British Aesthetes, C. Willett Cunnington, Charles Frederick Worth, Condé Nast, Edward Streichen, Elinor Glyn, Georges Lepape, Greta Garbo, isadora Duncan, Jean Beraud, Jean Beraud art, Jean Cocteau, Joel Nikolaou, Josh Patner, Liz Eckermann, Maude Allen, Michel Foucault, Oscar Wilde, Paul Gernreich, Paul Poiret, Raoul Dufy, Sarah Bernhardt
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LITTLE ORPHEUS
“She was, arguably, the most famous actress of the 19th century. Not the most beautiful or even the most talented, but Sarah Bernhardt (nicknamed “Sarah Barnum”), knew how to cultivate her stardom. She worked like a pack horse, her French … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Haas, Comedie Francaise, Cornelius Otis Skinner, Edmond de Goncourt, Edward Rothstein, Helen Mirren, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean Racine, Joan of Arc, Lamartine, Louisa Abbema, Marcel Proust, Marilyn Monroe, Melandri, Melandri photo Sarah Bernhardt, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sarah Bernhardt, Theodore de Banville, Victor Hugo
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