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		<title>gnostic picnic with the guy in the armor</title>
		<link>http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/02/gnostic-picnic-with-the-guy-in-the-armor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahweh and nihilism. Nothing like a nice flood or some other event to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. Turning the mattress over. Putting the world through the deep scrub dishwasher cycle.Clearly, Harold Bloom and his Yahweh &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/02/gnostic-picnic-with-the-guy-in-the-armor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>don&#8217;t mess with the holy fool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarded as a kind of holy fool who could stretch time and space while spitting on Isaac Newton&#8217;s cape and could scare off Voltaire with flashing visions of nihilistic revelry,a positive nihilism, a kind of messianic negation of the mundane &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/dont-mess-with-the-holy-fool/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>idiot wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The body being brought to life by perverse aesthetics. The body as the be-all and end-all of existence and the only thing of significance and importance in a relationship. Its a hyper objectification that uses abstract means, part of what &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/idiot-wind/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>apollo rising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The belief that paradise was up ahead, always just out of reach, had never wavered during the relentless rise of European secularism since the sixteenth century. From then until now, the tenacious grip of the symbolism of the paradise myth &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/apollo-rising/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>slow worker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Giorgio Vasari&#8217;s account of Leonardo and his work on the Last Supper, his unconventional disposition, his salesmanship and the perplexing bent of secular humanism which was disconcerting to the defenders of the faith&#8230;. He also painted in Milan, for &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/slow-worker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>paranoid spittled walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/paranoid-spittled-walls/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>someone stole gabriel&#8217;s horn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was scarcely satisfactory. Artists wanted to distinguish the heavenly messengers from the other young male figures such as the disciples of Jesus and Jesus himself. Greek and Roman Christian poets, elaborating on the Gospel stories, introduced traditional classical imagery. &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/someone-stole-gabriels-horn/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>dragon: fly the friendly skies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up in smoke. It&#8217;s the jeer of the dragon. That charming scaly fellow. In Western iconography, the dragon, generally speaking, is a writhing symbol of evil, even of the Devil himself. But to the Chinese it is a benevolent heavenly &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/dragon-fly-the-friendly-skies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the good companions: spirits having flown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do angels have wings? In early Christian times god&#8217;s messengers walked as men. But after the sweeping conversions of the pagan world Christian artists found inspiration in the flying deities of ancient faiths. After we emerged from the cave, &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/the-good-companions-spirits-having-flown/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the wanderer: trouble no more</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wandering jew. The white man&#8217;s burden has forced the heavy lifting onto the yid but the pop culture articulation of the concept is actually more profound and complex than its various manifestations would care to admit. Once man and &#8230; <a href="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2012/01/the-wanderer-trouble-no-more/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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