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first world war: hysterical tremors
No doubt we shall never understand the First World War completely. The malaise, the something sinister and strange lying beneath the prosperity of a seemingly newly minted modern age. The lust for violence, the belief in death and the ominous … Continue reading
witch hunting: clerical pastime
European witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? How could Europe’s educated laity, those lawyers, scholars and philosophers in the age of Erasmus cave in to such monkish phantasmagoria? The confessions of the so-called witches … Continue reading
witch hunting: clerical pastime
European witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? How could Europe’s educated laity, those lawyers, scholars and philosophers in the age of Erasmus cave in to such monkish phantasmagoria? The confessions of the so-called witches … Continue reading
darwin: insufferable biding of time
…The voyage of the Beagle was, as he said himself, the formative experience of Darwin’s life. He lived hard, working in the cramped conditions of a sailing ship, rounding Cape Horn and making expeditions hundreds of miles inland through dangerous … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun paintings, Charles Lyell, George Stubbs paintings, J. B. Lamarck, Jeremy Bentham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Professor Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley
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nothing that ain’t: leaky vessels
The great Roman poet Lucretius seems to take the affirmative side in our unending debate in whether reason and logic can solve all our problems. But his verses were charged with agonizing doubts in his superb poem The Nature of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Atheism, Bertrand Russell, Charlie Rose Lucretius, Christopher Hitchens, Democritus, Epicurianism, Epicurus, Fernand Fau, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Leucippus, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of the Universe, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurice Mac-Nab
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snobbery, default and flattery
As for prudery it seemed as acceptable to the middle classes as to Queen Victoria herself. Her beloved Albert had a great success in cleaning up the court, and Lord Shaftesbury, a strict evangelical churchman and champion of progressive family … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged benjamin disraeli, Bertrand Russell, emily blunt, Florence Nightingale, franz xaver winterhalter, gavin friday, Great Exhibition of 1851, john bull, john tenniel punch, Lady Amberly, Lord Shaftesbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, queen victoria, William Corbett
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hold your nose: flushing into a non-existant past
Excerpts from a brilliant article exposing the underside of what Adorno called the “cultural industries” and what Kuspit refers to as art as part of the industrial entertainment complex so drowned and subsumed by money values there is strictly form … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ben vautier, Bertrand Russell, christopher caudwell, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, gilbert and george, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mike Kelley, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy art, Piero Manzoni, Theodor Adorno
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a gendered gaze
Exactly how many pieces of art are in the Louvre is not clear. At the most extreme is the assertion that there are 300,000 paintings and a minimum of 5,000 and the total pieces of art ranging from 35,000 to … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bertrand Russell, camille morineau, Damien Hirst, Francois Boucher, Georges Seurat, Honoré Fragonard, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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boys will be boys: disavowal of the man
Certainly, there are a lot of nightmarish, threatening and hostile aspects to our modern living condition. This is counteracted by an equal perceptive impulse to promote and believe in a sanitized and make-believe view of the world. In fact, both … Continue reading
The Death and Resurrection Show: the shaman industry?
A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax:Exploring the architecture of human perception.The word parallax is a scientific term denoting a shift in perception upon movement of the perceiver rather than the perceived. Bang a gong, get it on…. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bertrand Russell, beyonce, Carl Jung, Carlo Ginzburg, daniel pinchbeck, Dionysus, Greil Marcus, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, James Hillman, jeremy narby, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Ken Kesey, Lady Gaga, mercea eliade, rogan taylor, stanley booth, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, Titian
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