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Tag Archives: Wilhelm Fraenger
wayfaring: complicity with the wanderer
Is man a wayfarer? A wanderer between two worlds? His destiny that of an outsider, eve an outlaw to the laws of nature; man as wayfarer, restless and unable to settle and establish roots . He reaches a fork in … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles de Tolnay, emil l. fackenheim, erik zafran, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, father daniel berrigan, Hieronymous Bosch, jacque combe, Jonathan Jones Guardian, joseph gaer, kathaleen reid, Mario Praz, Martin Buber, mary jane todd, peter ompir, philip Leider, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Quentin Massys, roman vishniak, sy polsky, thomas more utopia, warner wrede, Wilhelm Fraenger, william a. coventry, yakov m. rabkin
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go to hell: gimme shelter
It was the profoundly pessimistic, mad, hopeless, irredeemable, almost insane world of Hieronymus Bosch. Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as the enigmatic, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”; in our own hedonistic, instantly gratifying … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Erasmus, Fraenger, Franz Kafka, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, Leonardo Da Vinci, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sebastien Brant Ship of Fools, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Fraenger
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bosch: love as an involuntary movement
How mad can mad be? Is deep pessimism a form of madness? Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled and mystified, even perplexed viewers the way Hieoronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights has. Six hundred years … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Bass, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, E.H. Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, Ram Dass, Sigmund Freud, Simone Weil, Umberto Eco, Wilhelm Fraenger, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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Phantasmagoria: be here now
Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Even in the basking glory of post modernist permissiveness, its meaning is neither clear nor compelling, only murky. In centuries … Continue reading
garden of earthly delights: paradise lost and better forgotten
Very few paintings in the history of art have puzzled viewers as “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Perhaps both the godless and the god fearing, the hedonist, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and those addicted to instant gratification can draw … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Hieronymous Bosch, John Milton, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Milton Paradise Lost, Stanley Meisler, Wilhelm Fraenger, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding
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