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fashionable body: wasp waist as ideology
…At a distance of more than four generations, our great-grandmothers’ fanatic loyalty to the wasp-waist ideal would seem absurd were it not that we now understand its deeper significance much better. Far more than a crutch, the corset was a … Continue reading
fashionable bodies:inalienable rights to deformation
…Everything considered, doctor’ knowledge of the female anatomy was less than perfect mainly because they based their observations on the deformed body. They were misled about such elementary performances as breathing; not only woman’s skeleton but also her breathing apparatus … Continue reading
house hunting troubles?
The Duke of Wellington’s search for a palace. So you think you’re having house hunting troubles? Then consider the woes of Britain’s greatest hero. All he wanted was a little place in the country to stretch out… The public of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Duke of Wellington, George Cruikshank, John Soane, Lord Egremont, Lord Radnor, Luton Hoo Lady Salisbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquess of Bute, Mr. Clarke Jervoise, Robert Smirke, Sir George Bowyer, Sir Robert Walpole, Wellington Congress of Vienna, William Heath
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you can flee but you can’t hide
The first utopia was the Garden of Eden, but since no person knew what it was like, anyone may create it in their own image, the reason being an unhappiness with the world as it exists, pushing efforts to imagine … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Brisbane, Brook Farm, Charles Fourier, Ellery Channing, George Ripley, Jeremy Bentham, John Humphrey Noyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oneida Community, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Social Reform Unity, William Heath
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getting your irish up: the bog trotters
In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and give some form of reasoning behind their oppression and general use . This is not unfamiliar to most Americans as … Continue reading
shall we dance a slow one
The American flag floating over every square foot of North America, clear to the North Pole. The ancient ghosts of annexation have always haunted Canadians that reciprocity would engulf the country. To America, Canada is seen as useful, as well … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alan taylor author, Canada U.S. relations, canadian history, Cornelius Krieghoff, George Cruikshank, George Woodcock, ivan lett, john a. macdonald, John Verelst, Michael Greenstein, Northrop Frye, Rick Salutin, robert borden, wilfred laurier, William Heath, William Lyon Mackenzie King, william notman, yves engler
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liberated from foursquare classical rhythms
His life was brilliant and brief, much like his masterpieces on the piano. This segment tracks Frederic Chopin in Paris. He had left Poland to spend eight inhospitable months in Vienna before making his way to Paris at he time … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Henryk Siemieradzki, Honore Daumier, Jean Louis Bezard, Michael Lunts, William Heath, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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CLERGY BURNOUT: THE AESTHETICS OF DISAPPOINTMENT
Believers and Deceivers. The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Philips, Alison Gendar, Andres Serrano, Artur Rosman, Bob gass, Carolyn garago, Charles Lewis, Charles Lewis National Post, David faulkner, Edmund Burke, Elizabeth Lev, Fred Lehr, Geoffrey Robertson, Guy fawkes, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the younger, James Gillray, Job Orton, John Laughland, Jonathan Cook, Joseph H. Fichter, Kant, Karolina Sygula, Martin Buber, Massimo introvigne, Maurice S. Friedman, Michael Friedman, Paul Vitello, Peter Tatchell, Philip Jenkins, Pope Benedict, Rabbi Milton Balkany, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, Richard Dawkins, Sir Thomas More, Terry Nelson, Willaim Heath, William Heath, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, XTC Nonsuch
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MOCKERY, MACARONIS & MAYHEM
”He on all occasions professes a detestation of what he calls ”can’t”; says it will banish from England all that is pure and good; and that while people are looking after the shadow, they lose the substance of the goodness; … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged British caricature, Byron, Charles Dickens, Charles Philipon, Daumier, Dickens Sketches by Boz, Eliakim Littell, Erhard Schoen, George Cruickshank, George Townshend, Gerald Scarfe, Herbert M. Atherton, Honore Daumier, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruickshank, James Gillray, Lord Byron, Martin Myrone, Mary Darly, Matthew Darly, Philip Dawe, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Selwyn Briton, Sir Robert Peel, Thomas Rowlandson, William Heath, William Hogarth, William Hone
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