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Tag Archives: Arthur Rimbaud
genius of action: power of whim and command
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i’ve come to realize that there are two sorts of genius in this world. since we are ‘dualists’ in western culture (at least since descartes), it’s not an odd thing to see. there is, of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Einstein, art chantry, Arthur Rimbaud, bob cassilly, bob cassily, cassily, don novello, dr. teller nuclear bomb, edward teller, michelangelo the pieta, Paul Verlaine, robert oppenheimer, the house on the rock, The MC5, The Stooges, verlaine
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dissent building: toy stories
Consumerism is unlikely to be defeated; there will be no white knight, no Saint George to slay the dragon and pitch its corpse into the center of the earth for fifty generations. Consumerism is a product of consumer behavior and … Continue reading
gender swag
… clever and suggestive? Does the expected backlash merely enhance notoriety and reinforce the values the critics see. It does remind of the sports athlete whose career is over because of concussion syndrome. There was no one specific hit, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Edward Bernays, Feminist frequency, kim kardashian, LEGO friends, peggy orenstein, samantha ettus, sexist advertising, sheryl sandberg, sheryl sandberg facebook, stereotype threats, Walter Benjamin
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butch cassidy goes to piedmont
A rarity. At least at the time, one of the first media celebrities, a kind of royalty of image and talent. They all get discarded eventually as each new generation creates their gods. But Garibaldi is enduring; his manner of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Arthur Rimbaud, Atheism, garibaldi, giuseppe garibaldi, giuseppi mazzini, james bond archetype, Lord Nelson, lucy riall, Pope Pius IX, Romantic Age, rory carroll, Saint Simon, sylvestro lega
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eye of the tyger
William Blake saw heaven in a speck of dust. Toying on the brink of madness, he always seemed to stop just short of leaping off the cliff, of sacrificing himself to some form of wish fulfilling fantasy. An enigma of … Continue reading
elected to the plurality of gods
They are both waiting fot their angels to call them. The disordering of the senses and a powerful and arrogant imagination. A belief that what is best and most courageous in him goes back before The Fall. Yes, a medieval … Continue reading
madame x : plantation to paris
The French were considered to have less scruples relating to eroticism than the English. Manet’s Olympia broke the mold, but, in an exhibition where paintings of nudes were common, that of Madame Gautreau in black evening dress was considered more … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.hyatt mayer, Arthur Rimbaud, charles merrill mount, david mccullough, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Henry James, horace gregory, isabella stewart gardner, jack gardner, John Singer Sargent, louis de fourcaud, Paul Klee, sir osbert sitwell, stanley olson, Walter Benjamin
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touching a flaming comet
The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading
crisis of a strong man in chaos
Out of the themes of drought and disaster, the arrogant bravery of an outlaw, and the heroism of his countrymen at Gallipoli, Australian painter Sidney Nolan created a mythology for his native land. Before, Nolan, there had been no great … Continue reading
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