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wright time wrong place: buy the cow
Frank Lloyd Wright was a foe of the academicians in his youth. He later grew to disdain painting and sculpture generally and to see architecture as the only art. The end result of all this was the Guggenheim Museum. A … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ezra stoller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright attitude to art, Frank Lloyd Wright cubism, Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style, Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House, Guggenheim Museum, Jackson Pollock, Louis Sullivan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pablo Picasso, Robert Jordy, Stravinsky, William Morris
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A springtime massacre: hailing the god of chaos
Can pagans on a stage make pagans of the viewers? What happens when a percussive and intense style is matched with irregular rhythms and instruments pushed to the brink of their capabilities? Igor Stravinky’s revival of an ancient blood rite … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice B. Toklas, Beethoven, edward green, Eli Siegel, Gertrude Stein, igor stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Proust, Nijinsky, robert christgau, Sergei Diaghliev, Stravinsky, valentine gross hugo
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A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?
Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Aristophanes, Ayn Rand, chuck berry, Euripides, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Homer, Homer The Odyssey, Jim Morrison The Doors, Keith Richards, lester bangs, Mick Jagger, robert christgau, robert palmer, ruth benedict, Stravinsky, Titian
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pleasure springs eternal
The psychology of the seasons is still an obscure subject, but common experience indicates its salient principle: at certain junctures of the year there arises among individuals a general fever of the blood, a sort of common malaise, a complex … Continue reading
PICASSO’S REFLEX ANXIETY :2 1/2 Men & Close Encounter of the 3 1/2 Kind
Perhaps more than any other artist, Pablo Picasso depicted the dark side; the Darth Vader of the human psyche, as well as the positive and the beautiful…This departure by Picasso from the so-called “civilized” and classical influences of Western art … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Breton, Carl Goldstein, Darth Vader, David Galenson, Donald Kuspit, Edmond Fortier, Edward Fry, Ernst Junger, Fernande Olivier, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, J.K. Huysmans, jack Flam, John Berger, Jonathan Richman, Jonathan Richman The Modern Lovers, Laura Ball, Leo Steinberg, Max Kosloff, Megan Meighan, Michele Leight, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Richard Hamilton, Robert J. Sternberg, Robert Smithson, Rosalind Krauss, Satie, Sigmund Freud, Stravinsky, Vladimir Tatlin
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A KINDER & GENTLER NATION?
Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together I’ve got some real estate here in my bag So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies And we walked off to look for America Cathy I said … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged American Cinema history, Bert Sommer, D.W. Griffith, D.W. Griffith Way Down East, Dave Kehr, David Wark Griffith, Eric Bentley, Eugene O'Neill, Henri Matisse, John Steinle, Joseph R. Grismer, Lottie Blair Parker, Pablo Picasso, Paul Brenner, Paul Simon, Satie, Stravinsky, William A. Brady
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