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alchemy on the hudson: cups runneth over
The nineteenth-century produced a group of American painters who, to an exceptional degree, revealed that a dream or a vision need not be shaped in fantasy but may exist in ordinary aspects of the world around us. That is, a … Continue reading
groupthink: together through life
Educational togetherness, as filtered down through the mass legacy of John Dewey, holds that the main object of schooling is to bring about a pupil’s adjustment to a group. That is, a disdain for competition as such and other variances … Continue reading
frankl: meaning as a sheep in wolfs clothing
Logotherapy based on the idea that meaning is an objective reality, contrary to various forms of illusion, arising and conjured up within the perceptual capabilities of the observer. Is it true? It would seem that objective reality is an oxymoron. … Continue reading
trojan horse
As a political metaphor, the Trojan Horse is usually perceived as some kind of malignant virus, socialism mixed with radical jihad, anti-poverty advocates and Bernie Saunders groupies and Emma Goldman legacy projects that through subterfuge and guile under the greater … Continue reading
swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth
The infiltration of Andelysian luxuriance into Roman severity marks nature’s triumph in Nicolas Poussin’s ultimate works of 1658-1664. As action had once been reduced to immobility, so now it is absorbed by nature’s serenity. Time is swallowed by space, history … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Corot, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, John Haber Art, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, Richard Wollheim, Thomas Cole art, William Hazlitt
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french kiss-off
Is it possible to equate art and crime? Our company just received this publicity for Canson Infinity paper which is sponsoring John Botte for his tenth anniversary 9/11 photographs. It’s being held at the Morrison Hotel Gallery and is curated … Continue reading
a tangible mansion in the imagination: knock before entering
Architecture has long had deep roots in the imagination. Creating fantastical structures, magnificent dwellings, and phantom cities , painters have always been drawn to erecting a dream architecture of the improbable and often psychologically revealing buildings. Certainly, architecture and psychoanalysis … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Carl Jung, Chagall, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio de Chirico, Jeremy Blake, Kay Sage, M.C. Escher, Mies van der Rohe, Nikolaus Peysner, Philip Johnson, Rene Magritte, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole art, Walter Gropius, Wilhelm Pinder, Yves Tanguay
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Fall of rome: when the world was young
…The slaves, with their outlandish customs and religions; the orgiastic cults of Isis, Cybele , and the Syrian Demeter- in turn adulterated the political consensus of the republic’s most vigorous days, introducing the notion of an Oriental despotism, of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cullen Murphy, Donald Rumsfeld, Edward Gibbon, Gordon Childe, Igor Panarin, J. Rufus Fears, John Winthrop, Karl Bruillov, Kevin Libin, Max Harold Fisch, Midge Decter, Niall Ferguson, Peter Stothard, Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole art, Victor Hansen Davis
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