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at home in a greater order
A painter can say things well beyond the narrative of an incident drawn from a literary source. Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Fall of Icarus fits the ticket as a philosophical narrative…. According to Greek legend, Icarus fell to his … Continue reading
inanimate itch for the kitsch: real men don’t eat kitsch?
Modernist culture is simply not animated by eternal values of the purity of art and abstract truth. Like the dinosaur it failed to adapt and we tossed the baby out with the bath water. Not surprisingly, Walter Benjamin said that … Continue reading
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love says “be silent i will beguile him with the soul”
The quote is from Rumi, the Persian mystical poet. Aine is the humanitarian association Reza has founded to provide “media development and cultural expression as a foundation of democracy”. He should know. Reza Deghati is an exile from Iran, that … Continue reading
WATER SPIDERS: Quantitative and Social Easing
This aspect of Keynes — the shrewd investor, the canny player of financial markets — is rather unexpected in light of the man ’ s early life and beliefs. Keynes was an aesthete, his first allegiance to philosophy and the art of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Upchurch, Bertrand Russell, Cecil Day-Lewis, Clive Bell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Francis Bacon, G.E. Moore, Henry James, Jan Ellen Goldstein, John Maynard Keynes, Kenneth Clark, Leonard Woolf, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Quentin Bell, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden
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ONCE UPON A TIME…
Napoleon’s armies overran Germany….”but not only did we seek something of consolation in the past, our hope, naturally, was that this course of ours should contribute somewhat to the return of a better day.” While “foreign persons, foreign manners, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Byron, Clemens Brentano, Coleridge, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Schiller, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Gustaf Tengren, Gustav Mahler, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Marianne Stokes, Narianne Stokes, Novalis, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Richard Cleasby, Robert Leinweber, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Theodor Benfey, W.H. Auden, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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GRIMM TERRORS: PASSION FOR THE PRIMITIVE
“The consonants of primitive Germanic keep consistently to the same mouth areas as the corresponding consonants in the older Indo-European languages”. So said the Brothers Grimm in stating their famous law for linguists. Dull fellows? Hardly. Their terrifying tales have … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, Byron, Charles Darwin, Clemens Bretano, Coleridge, David Hockney, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Keats, Keats, Lord Byron, Margaret Hunt, Peter Webb, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, W.H. Auden, Walt Disney, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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