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Monthly Archives: July 2010
BLONDE AMBITION & SEDITION: THE WHITE VEIL
The woman’s legs seemed to go on forever. It was hard to tell exactly whom they belonged to, or what she was thinking, but their purpose was clear, dominating a billboard for a new condo…. drawing the eyes of admirers … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphrodite, Betty Grable, Billy Wilder, Bruce Hainley, Debbie Reynolds, Edmund Spenser, Feminism, Francois Rabelais, Gender and Politics, Holliday T. Day, Homer, Isak Dinesen, Jacques Derrida, Jane Mansfield, joan riviere, Joanne Pitman, Laini Michelle Burton, Leni Riefenstahl, Lucrezia di Borgia, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Masaccio, Menander, Mikhail Bakhtin, miranda devine, Pamela Anderson, PETA, PETA Dan Matthews, Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, sara ahmed, Seneca, Sigmund Freud, Simon Houpt, Spenser, Sue Williams, Sue Williams Art, The Robber Bridegroom, Theodor Adorno, Travis Gertz, Vanessa Beecroft, Zoe Brigley
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CHRISTMAS IN JULY: AND A MAGI IN A PEAR TREE
Hans Memling’s ”The Seven Joys of Mary” is a pageant as much as a painting, a dramatization of holy events in a landscape that might accommodate the revelry of a midsummer eve. Exactly what is going on is hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Tani, Cathedral of Lubeck, Chales The Bold, Chapel of the Tanners, Cyndi Lauper, Flemish painting, Hans Memling, Northern Renaissance Art, Northern Renaissance Painting, Paul Jeromack, Peter Bultinc, Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Vincent de Paul
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WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORIES
Life and Art Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cinema history, Andrew Sarris, Arthur Koestler, Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe, Damian Cannon, Dave Thomson, Ed Sikov, Edward Bernays, Emma Lazarus, Ernst Lubitsch, Herman Melville, Holliday T. Day, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Laurence Maslon, Marilyn Monroe, Paul J. Karlstrom, Paul Karlstrom, Philip Kemp, Richard Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Tim Dirks, Victor Morton, William Holden
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NOBODY'S PERFECT … HEAVEN KNOWS THEY TRIED
”…Problem is, the only open slots are with Sweet Sue and Her All-Girl Society Syncopaters. As if high heels, girdles, and falsies weren’t tsouris enough, “Josephine” and “Daphne” must keep those testosterone levels down while in the sensuous proximity of … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cinema, Andrew Sarris, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Damian Cannon, David Thomson, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Greta Garbo, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Lewis, Laurence Maslon, Mack Sennett, Marilyn Monroe, Philip Kemp, Pierre Schaeffer, Richard Armstrong, Robert Portfino, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, Tim Dirks, Tony Curtis, William Shakespeare
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CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS
Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Balmer, Dada Movement, Dadaists, David Hopkins, Donald Kuspit, Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Quinn, Elizabeth Legge, Giorgio de Chirico, Ingres, Jean Paulhan, John Milton Paradise Lost, Jose Maria Faerne, Jules Verne, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Paul Auster, Paul Eluard, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, Surrealism, Werner Spies
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MAXED OUT ON DADA: AVOIDING THE DEGENERACY OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT
”…it becomes obvious that Max Ernst’s brilliant accomplishment consisted of having developed a syntax by which the employment of this found material could be controlled. For all their independence from traditional artistic techniques and the imitation of nature, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, August Macke, Dada Movement, Dadaist Art, David Lewis, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Hinton, George P. Landow, Hans Arp, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, Johannes Baargeld, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Max Ernst occult, Nadia Choucha, Paul Eluard, Piet Mondrian, Robert Delaunay, Robert Desnos, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, W.B. Yeats, Werner Spies
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