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a holy toledo

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Dave

By the middle of the fourteenth-century the once Moslem city of Toledo had been under Christian domination for three hundred years. This period gave rise to the blend of Christian and Moslem decoration known as the Mudejar style. The city’s … Continue reading →

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A LANGUAGE OF TRICKS & TREATS: Sea of Universal Myth

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Dave

“A still further step can and must be taken, however, before we still have reached the bounds of the problem. Myth, as the psychoanalysts declare, is not a mess of errors; myth is a picture language. But the language has … Continue reading →

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MANTEGNA: ANCIENT RITES MEET CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES …

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Dave

… or agonies in the Garden.He antagonized conventional orthodox theology. Mantegna was one of the most important historical thinkers of his time. He brought to his understanding of painting as historical narrative, a new sense of the past, like that … Continue reading →

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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Dave

Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading →

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WRETCHED DESIRES: “WEEP FOR THE SAVIOR NOT THE SEDUCER”

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Dave

Peter Abelard. An impudent nuisance to his contemporaries, a romantic figment later, and perhaps our first free man. “By doubting, we come to inquire and by inquiry we arrive at truth”. The church has never quite understood Abelard to the … Continue reading →

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ENTERTAINMENT VALUE: HIGH IQ LOW IQ & FUKQ

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dave

Sometimes, unlike Banks, ideas are too small to fail and too big to succeed. Religiously, law makers have practiced anti-eugenics in keeping the big banks and global economy in a recurring coma, various unspecified ”upper body injuries” of the financial … Continue reading →

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