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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
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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SANTA WANDERING and WEARY: Homeward Bound
From whence he came and where he goes is not clear with the precision of science or the proof or artifact. One thing which can be deduced is that Santa Claus is a master of the art of wandering. For … Continue reading
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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HOLD ME MY DADDY SO I CAN LIFT YOU UP
” Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might’ve fired off a … Continue reading
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Tagged Diogenes, Fielding Tom Jones, Freud, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Ilya Repin, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Joseph D. Matarazzo, Michael Ferguson, Mike and the Mechanics, Plato, Polymathica, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Teddy Roosevelt, thepolymathicablog.blogspot.com, Tom Jones, Turgenev, W.C. Fields, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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EAT, DRINK AND BE WARY
”The book was so popular it went into six editions during Burton’s lifetime, and its gratified author was eager to doff his anonymity after the first. It should have been popular. Although it gave expression to the pains of the people (always a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Dr. Ben Johnson, English literature, Henry Fuseli, Henry James, Holbrook Jackson, James Shirley The Humorous Courtier, John Boydell, John Fletcher the humorous lieutenant, John Milton, Joseph Wright, Maria Cosway, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, William H. Gass, William Shakespeare, www.tate.org, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, XTC Nonsuch
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THE POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL
The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlo Carra, Charles Peguy, Erich Maria Remarque, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Freud, henri Bergson, Italian Futurists, Martin Buber, Nietzsche, Otto Dix, Parkinson's Law, Rupert Brooke, Severini, The Great War, Umberto Boccioni, Woodrow Wilson, WWI. World War One, XTC
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