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Tag Archives: Charles Baudelaire
the importance of bad art
Bohemia is beyond saving. The lesson being that a basically worthless and mediocre piece of literature can achieve more ill than a good book can ever achieve good. It is a paradox; and there is little power in the art … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amerigo Vespucci, Bohemianism, Carmen opera, Charles Aznavour La Boheme, Charles Baudelaire, Felix Nadar, Giacomo Puccini, Gustave Courbet, Henri Murger, Henri Murger Vie de Boheme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie Vimal, Mimi Vie de Boheme, Puccini La Boheme
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saving bohemia from the yuppies
Its too late to save Bohemia.Perhaps a worthless book can achieve more ill than a good book can ever achieve good. At any rate it is upon this seeming paradox that it is worth dwelling on, in the effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Emile Jean Horace Vernet, Felix Nadar, Gustave Courbet, Gypsies in England, Gypsy Travellers, Henri Murger, Henri Murger Vie de Boheme, Horace Vernet, Jules Janin, King of Bohemia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding t.v. show, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare The Winter's Tale, The Black Prince, William Shakespeare
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visceral forms: “what’s inside a girl”
The persistence of the nude. We have had more or less traditional treatment since Marcel Duchamp, followed by Picasso and abstract expressionism rendered her to the scrapheap of history. Lo and behold, she could not be avoided for long. It … Continue reading
when the noble run free
The Enlightenment. It has become an ordinary and familiar thing; like a Marcel Duchamp sculpture, what was once subversive and novel, the quarrel with Christianity and that people of different religious affiliations could live peacefully together, has now become an … Continue reading
naples yellow: pots of peculiar gold
Italian neo-realismo. Very much a complement to, and reaction towards, the American ideological war as docu-drama that took flight in Germany after WWII and ran the gamut clunker to precursor to cinema verite. Italian realismo was not created in a … Continue reading
hunger: pangs of freedom
The hunger for pure immanence. Or when the blending of realism and idealism becomes a kind of performance art, a “shock of the new” to use the Dadaist phrase, a disruptive force that effectuates art through the banal “ready-made” activity … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, David Blaine, Franz Kafka, Gandhi fasting, gilad shalit, Giovanni Succi, Hana Shalbi, Khader Adnan, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Shalit deal, Sharman Apt Russell, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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the spoken word and its double
Weird Stuff.But brilliant. Steve “Jesse” Bernstein. Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Lou Reed; looking under the rocks of the American fantasy and examining a sensibility of the irrational when fantasy and reality are at each other’s throats. An American product but … Continue reading
children should be painted and not herd
Salon painting.And children. Sympathy for the poor things with an equally normal but less open response to their charms. Unlike Salon painting of women who were usually lashed to a stake, tortured or languishing in prisons condemned to sleeping on … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, coventry patmore, emil munier, ferdinand waldmuller, French Salon painting, John Everett Millais, john george brown, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Wassily Kandinsky
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