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vichy waters: borborygmic belches
Taking the waters at Vichy. Where fitness was not the only end in view. The thermal spa at Vichy and its warm springs had a very slow rise to international fame. The patronage of Rabelais and generations of consumptive Britons … Continue reading
small is beautiful: a free man in paris
It was a time when Paris was a city for the young. Students, painters, intellectuals, journalists, grisettes: all were there along with a young German poet who recorded a period of creative ferment between one revolution and the next. …. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Amalia Keller, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Gérard de Nerval, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vernet, Niall Ferguson, Paris July Revolution 1831, salomon heine, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, victor-jean nicolle, wolfgang menzel
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Sand and Chopin….. etudes of the muse or the ballade of the…vampire
George Sand is often cast as the villain of the piece, though actually, she did wonders for Frederic Chopin by shielding him from the buffetings of the world. Chopin’s connection with Madame Dudevant, the French novelist, better known as “George … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mickiewicz, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, August Clesinger, Chopin, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Honore Daumier, Honore de Balzac, Janka Wohl, Michael Lunts, Oscar Wilde, Paganini, Victor Hugo
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liberated from foursquare classical rhythms
His life was brilliant and brief, much like his masterpieces on the piano. This segment tracks Frederic Chopin in Paris. He had left Poland to spend eight inhospitable months in Vienna before making his way to Paris at he time … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Henryk Siemieradzki, Honore Daumier, Jean Louis Bezard, Michael Lunts, William Heath, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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REAL MAD, SOMEWHAT BAD & A LOT OF KITSCH
Henry Fuseli’s ghostly and frightening subject-matter was a visual continuum of the Gothic novel, which developed an aesthetics of terror and horror, was occupied with dreams and the unconscious, and often looked back to the feudal world. Fuseli once said, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alfred de Musset, Anne-Louis Girodet, Bellenger, Charles Nodier, Donald Kuspit, Donizetti, E.H. Gombrich, Erich Fromm, Ernst Gombrich, Etienne-Jean Georget, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Holderlin, Gérard de Nerval, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Jacques-Louis David, John Milton, John Ruskin, Louis Sass, Marquis de Sade, Michel Foucault, Nikolaus Lenau, Rembrandt, Robert Schumann, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Simon Schama, Soren Kierkegaard, Suzi Gablik, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Victor Hugo, William Blake
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