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touching a flaming comet
The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading
celebrity contagion :thirty two short momentos by glenn gould
The fetish object. The continuous restlessness of meaning. Unresolved tension through which the commodity is continually fetishized, de-fetishized and reproduced to look like the old; warts, scratches, scuffs and all. A reanimation that represents a highlighting of utopian longings dating … Continue reading
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Tagged adam biran, Andy Warhol, arthur rubinstein, bob trenholm, Byron, clara haskill, daniel szmukler, dinu lipatti, Euro Banking Association, george e. newman, glenn gould, harry mannis, igor stravinsky, kate shapiro, kevin bazzana, Leonard Bernstein, paul bloom, paul waldie, serkin, Steven Pinker, susan buck-morss, Theodor Adorno, valerie curtis, Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Benjamin, William Wordsworth
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THE SINKING OF NARCISSISTIC DELIGHT
For a thousand years Venice held “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. The Napoleon saw a bluff- and called it. … Napoleon himself commanded the French armies in Italy. But for five centuries … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Miller Venice, Allan Miller Berkshire Review, Elaine Pilkington, Gentile Bellini, Goldoni, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Lord Byron, Mayor Orsoni Venice, Philippe Monnier, Rick Steves, Vittoro Carpaccio, William Wordsworth
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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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