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Tag Archives: Wolf Mankowitz
ST. JUDY’S COMET: She Stood a Wreck on Error’s Shore
One seer pronounced her the victim of a deeply religious and spiritual nature perpetually at war with the flesh that overwhelmed it. As D.H. Lawrence said, ” it is hard to hear a new voice, as hard as it is … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Alexander Isaac Menken, Algernon Swinburne, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, Barbara Foster, Bernard Falk, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charles Reade, Charles Warren Stoddard, D.H. Lawrence, Dane Barca, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edwin James, Erica Jong, George Sand, Gregory Eiselen, H.M. Milner, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Isaac Lesser, James Paul Barkley, Jeffrey C. Robinson, John C. Heenan, Lord Byron, Mark Twain, Michael Foster, Napoleon Sarony, Paul Simon, Peter Dollard, Renee Sentilles, Robert H. Newell, sylvia plath, Thomas Buchanan Read, Van Dyke Parks, Walt Whitman, William Blake, William Rossetti, Wolf Mankowitz
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A MASKED NOBODY CAN BE ANYBODY
“Adah Menken was the most remarkable mingling of angel and devil that ever wore petticoats.” She invented the modern cult of female celebrity. Her goal, originally, was to be famous based on talent. To be recognized as the outstanding actress … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Algernon Swinburne, Barbara Foster, Bernard Falk, Bernie Taupin, Charles Dickens, Dane Barca, David Kirby, Edwin James, Elton John, Goethe, Gregory Eiselen, H.M. Milner, Isaac Lesser, James E. Murdoch, Jeremy Brett, Lola Montez, Mark Twain, Michael Foster, Narcissa Whitman, Noel Gerson, Randy Newman, Samuel Dickson, Sarah Siddons, Shakespeare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Walt Whitman, Wolf Mankowitz
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MASKED SAINT ON A WILD HORSE
Are there virtues to an ambiguous past? She was masked and anonymous. Her fidelity was to the plurality of self and she was as much a puzzle at the end of her life, and such an omnipresent figure that the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Alan Ackerman, Alexander Dumas, Alexander Isaac Menken, Barbara Foster, Bernard Falk, Bernie Taupin, Charles Dickens, David Kirby, Edwin Booth, Edwin James, Elton John, Gregory Eiselen, Isaac Lesser, Ivan Robertson, Joaquin Miller, John C. Heenan, Mark Twain, Michael Foster, Narcissa Whitman, Noel Gerson, Rabbi Mayer Wise, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Renee Sentilles, Roy Morris Jr., Samuel Dickson, Theda Bara, Theodosia Goodman, Walt Whitman, Wolf Mankowitz
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AS THE WORLD URNS
The Barberini vase or Portland Vase as it became known as, is the most famous cameo-glass vessel from antiquity. it has been studied for centuries by scholars trying to determine its original utilitarian purpose and the perplexing meaning of its … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barberini Ivory, Barberini Vase, British Museum, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Cardinal Francesco Maria Borbone del Monte, Duke of Portland, Emma Hamilton, Erasmus Darwin, Faustina Antoninus, Josiah Wedgewood, Jupiter and Olympias, Lesley Pyke, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Margaret Duchess of Portland, Medea and Jason, Portland vase, Sir William Hamilton, Theseus and Amphitrite, William Lloyd, William lloyd Portland Vase, Wolf Mankowitz, Zeus and Leda
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VASE OF ANTIQUITY AND INIQUITY
Genie out of the vase. It is an enigmatic urn. During the artistic rape of Europe in the eighteenth century, the ransack that is now known as the Grand Tour, England was flooded with spoils of her wandering noblemen. Paintings, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alexander Severus, Alexander the Great, Barberini Vase, Emma Hamilton, James Byres, Josiah Wedgewood, Lady Portland, Leslie Pyke, Lord Nelson, pope Urban VIII, Sir William Hamilton, The British Museum, The Grand Tour, Wolf Mankowitz
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