Monthly Archives: September 2010

BANNING THE CORSET: PANTALOON LIBERATION FRONT

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Dave

Banning the corset and into the harem. Read my Body. “From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think that there is only practical consequence, we have to create ourselves as a work of art.” ( … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Amelia Jenks Bloomer, British Aesthetes, C. Willett Cunnington, Charles Frederick Worth, Condé Nast, Edward Streichen, Elinor Glyn, Georges Lepape, Greta Garbo, isadora Duncan, Jean Beraud, Jean Beraud art, Jean Cocteau, Joel Nikolaou, Josh Patner, Liz Eckermann, Maude Allen, Michel Foucault, Oscar Wilde, Paul Gernreich, Paul Poiret, Raoul Dufy, Sarah Bernhardt | Leave a comment

UTOPIAN DREAMS & SCHEMES and IN-BETWEENS

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Dave

What is Utopia and why does it attract both hope and skepticism in equal measure? In a way that appears meaningful, it is a productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive optimistic utopianism and a negative utopian pessimism. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Amy Boesky, Andrew Milner, Charles Fourier, Ernest Bloch, Ernst Bloch, Francis Bacon, Frederick Engels, George Ripley, Gilles Deleuze, Gordon Campbell, Herbert Marcuse, Hieronymous Bosch, James Harrington, John Humphrey Noyes, John Milton, Jonathan Berman Commune, Lou Gottleib, Margaret Fuller, Michael Simmons Huffington Post, Michel Foucault, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New harmony, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Peter Simon, Richard Wagner, Robert Appelbaum, Robert Owen, Samuel Gott, Sara Davidson, Simon Schama, Sir Thomas More, Theodor Adorno, Thomas N. Corns, Walter Benjamin | 2 Comments

UTOPIA: PARADISE DEFERRED, DELAYED & DETOURED

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Dave

Its the Utopians versus the Dystopians, and at this juncture the latter have prevailed. Communities with European roots embraced the equalizing demands and freedoms of the New World’s open frontier, even as the new country claimed the pursuit of happiness … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Uhry, Ann Lee Shakers, Arnold Skolnick, Arthur Solari, Artie Kornfeld, Brian Dennison, Brook Farm, Brotherhood of the Spirit, Bruce Geisler, George Rapp, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Martha Clarke, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Michael Dashkin, Mike Metalica, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Neal Stephenson, neal Stephenson Snow Crash, Noam Chomsky, Paul Simon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ray Bradbury, Renaissance Community, Richard Dawkins, Robert Owen, Sara Davidson, Simon Schama, Sir Thomas More, Thomas More | 2 Comments

THE FLINTSTONES? THESE CAVES WERE MADE FOR TALKING

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Dave

Adoption Agency Worker: Mr. and Mrs. Rubble, this is your little boy. [Presents Bamm-Bamm] Betty Rubble: Oh Barney isn’t he precious? Fred Flintstone: Precious? They’d have been better off with the monkey. Wilma Flintstone: Fred! Betty Rubble: Does he have … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Barbara Bach, Carl Gottleib, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, David Manning, Erik Nelson, France Chauvet Caves, Henri Lhote, John Lopez Vanity Fair, Jonathan Zander, Judith Thurman, Judith Thurman The New Yorker, Lina Wertmuller, Michael Hogan Vanity Fair, Peter Zeitlinger, Raquel Welch, Ringo Starr, Robert Vaughan, Roger Corman, Roger Corman Teenage Caveman, Tassili paintings, The Screaming Blue Messiahs, White Crocodiles | 2 Comments

AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Dave

Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer | 2 Comments

MUSIC & MADNESS: AN IMP OF A LIBRETTO

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Dave

A cursed libretto is not your typical campfire ghost story.Its not a joking anecdote to be easily dismissed either. Its one helluva an imp who has displayed wildly inconsistent behavior over the years. The specific association of music and madness … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Brian Wilson, Bruce Elder, Buddy Holly, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Daniel Kreps, Denis Diderot, Django Reinhardt, Donizetti, E.T.A. Hoffman, Echo Lamb, Elfriede Jelinek, Elvis Presley, Etienne Carjot, Foucault, Francesco Piave, Francis Toye, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schiller, Gunter grass, Hegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Jack Unteweger, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Lennon, John Malkovich, Kate Connolly, Kurt Vonnegut, Lana Clarkson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Haselbock, Martin Scorsese, Melchiorre Delfico, Merelli La Scala, Michael Sturminger, Mick Brown, Norman Mailer, Phil Spector, Renata Tibaldi, Robert Johnson, Rossini, Shakespeare, The Ramones, Tina Turner, Victor Hugo, Vikram Jayanti, Voltaire | Leave a comment

DR. JEKYLL & MR. GARGOYLE : AUGMENTED REALITY

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Dave

… they only come out a night. Augmented reality has to be considered as part of the future of humankind. There are many ways for us to add data to our lives beyond the what is there physically.This could be … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adrienne Mayor, Ahmed Benzizine, Amber Case, Andrew Davidson, Anthony Di Renzo, Anthony Laurent, Augmented reality, Avatar James Cameron, Bram Stoker, Bruce Sterling, Carl Jung, Carl Sandberg, Cyborg Anthropology, Elaine Ganley, Emmanuel Fourchet, F.W. Murnau, Francois Villon, G.K. Chesterton, Gary Varner, Glenn Beck, Horace Walpole, Howard Mumford Jones, jacke Prelutsky, Klaus Kinski, Laura Ackerman, Liz Leslie, Michael Camille, Michel Cacaud, Neal Stephenson, Peter Sis, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Werner Herzog, William Van Alen | Leave a comment

UNORDAINED PASSION:AN AVANT GARDE DIVINE MERCY

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Dave

If you judged these things solely by press headlines, you would assume that the pope was about to face a lynch mob of jeering Protestants and vengeful atheists. Most Britons, we are told, are disgusted at the thought of spending … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Al Murray, Albert Camus, Ambroise Vollard, André Suares, Araminta Worsworth, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Catholic democrat Lammenais, Evelyn Waugh, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Geoffrey Robertson, Georges Rouault, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Iain Martin Wall Street Journal, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Maritain, James Thrall Soby, Jean Paul Sartre, Julie Burchill, Léon Bloy, Lionello Venturi, Pablo Picasso, Peter Tatchell, Rembrandt, Richard Dawkins, Seamus L. Gaffney, Stephen Fry, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Huxley | 4 Comments

PORTION GENEROSO: ORAL DESIRE A LA CARTE

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Dave

“Researching one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony, although food implies a consistent research into the bodily (taboos). To Nietzsche, largely responsible for rehabilitating the body in later humanistic thought, sinning is not a basic state of humanity, but merely … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Azi Paybarah, Billboard Liberation Front, Charles Rector's Restaurant, Daniel Lambert, Diamond Jim Brady, Edna McCauley, Edward Arnold, Francis Hyman, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, George Rector, Harry Paul Jeffers, Henrik Ibsen, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, james Buchanan Brady, John L. Sullivan, John Lennon, John Mariani, John Milton, Lillian Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Michel Foucault, Orson Welles, Parker Morrell, Pieter Brueghel, Richard Avedon, Ron English, Saint John Chrysostom, Samson Agonistes, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, Stanford White | 2 Comments

BOUND FOR GLORY?: TALKING ABOUT BAGISM, SHAGISM, DRAGISM…

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Dave

” Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion throws many people for a loop the first time they see it. Its reputation as one of the great works of cinema leads them to expect an eye-popper like Citizen Kane, or a work such … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Citizen Kane, Edvard Munch, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.B. Pabst, Gordon W. Allport, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Spencer, Jack Kerouac, James J. Sheehan, James Leahy, Jean Gabin, Jean Paul Sartre, John Lennon, John Rader Platt, Joseph Goebbels, Julian Huxley, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, Lewis Milestone, Martin O'Shaugnessy, Max Weber, Noam Chomsky, Norman Angell, Orson Welles, Oswald Spengler, Pete Seeger, Robert Brent Toplin, Robin Bates, Sigmund Freud, The Doors, The Doors Jim Morrison, Timothy Leary, Tom Block, Tom Paxton, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

Madame Pickwick Art Blog

Madame Pickwick Francais

Studio Backstage

Madame Pickwick English