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t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat
T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading
there’s plenty of room at the bottom
From the previous post that brought up Harry Saltzman, one of the originators of developing the social realism genre of film. Of course, Saltzman did not operate in a vacuum, but he had an intuitive sense that connected the north … Continue reading
1-800-just-fear
Hard to believe. The photo is a meme. However, if law enforcement agencies have budgets, they have to spend them .Its the use it or lose it syndrome and hitting the fear button, raising levels of anxiety is tailor made … Continue reading
canto for a very old world order
Ezra Pound and Mussolini.The kind of hero worship that seems absurdly ridiculous today. Search for the father figure? Demented, this love for pathological killers recast as humanist heroes and purveyors of order and nobility in a world moving too fast … Continue reading
modernist garden: flowers of evil
In retracing the steps of Charles Baudelaire’s Paris, Walter Benjamin also arrived at a similar conclusion with respect to modernism’s influence on society. The flaneur, the urban dweller; this persona lead Benjamin to remark that the prostitute is the only … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony taafe, Audrey Hepburn, Brooke Shields, Camille Claudel, Charles Baudelaire, dakota fine, e.j. bellocq, Ezra Pound, frank budgen, Gertrude Stein, gwen john, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, jeff jetton, keith carradine, Lady Gaga, larry flynt, Louis Malle, Noam Chomsky, Pablo Picasso, Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis
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FIERCER THAN A THOUSAND DOGS
Questions are always asked when cataclysmic events arise, events that have great and shattering consequences,but seemingly lack proportionate causes. Why was disaster inevitable once hostilities of the great war of 1914-1918 broke out? People endured this inferno without justifying reasons,and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged C.R.W Nevinson, D.H. Lawrence, Edouard Vuillard, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustav Landauer, H.G. Wells, Jacob Burckhardt, John Lavery, John Nash, John Singer Sargent, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Martin Buber, Maurice S. Friedman, Michael Kropotkin, Paul Nash, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Winston Churchill, Wyndham Lewis
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