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karl marx: romanticism of the angry moralist
The many faces of Karl Marx. We know of the revolutionary, the prophet, the historian and the philosopher. But he had one another: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… Karl Marx…But ultimately of course, … Continue reading
banking: its parapsychology to most
Banking as parapsychology. The astounding world as interchangeability, both lucid and independent presents itself. Opaque transactions rupturing the integrity of the field; a field that is ecumenical rather than exclusive, and quite able to absorb pi research as part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking Crisis and bailouts, Bill Gross PIMCO, Charles Dickens, Charles Honorton, Dickens Oliver Twist, Dr. Harry Hermon, Dr. Stanley Krippner, jamie dimon, Jamie Dimon JP Morgan, Jonathan Weil Bloomberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Steve Liesman CNBC, Tom Keene Bloomberg, Uri Geller, world economic forum davos
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tasmania: leave it to george the pied piper
The final solution down under in Tasmania…. George Augustus Robinson. The type who would run a reformatory for reclaimed London hookers out of Dickens’ Hard Times. He was tireless, humorless and untiring. Also uneducated, dogmatic and his bent was to … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Charles Dickens, Colonel George Arthur Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Tasmania Black Line offensive, Tasmania history, Tasmanian genocide, Thomas Bock paintings Tasmania
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tasmania: soldiers that can’t shoot straight
The final solution down under in Tasmania…. …Sometimes they did see an aborigine- once they briefly glimpsed a party of forty. More often they mistook clumps of trees, or black swans, or the rustle of leaves, or kangaroos, for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Colonel George Arthur Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, James Bonwick, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, Lyndall Ryan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Robert Dowling paintings Tasmania, Sir George Murray Secretary of State for the Colonies, Tasmania Black Line, Thomas Bock paintings Tasmania
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canaletto: one sunny afternoon
Twas’ a sunny day. Canaletto in London. He painted, in 1746, his A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palce; the city of London as it looked on that sparkling summer day in the middle of the eighteenth century. We … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles Dickens, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Vertue, Henry Fielding, James Gibbs design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morton's Tower London, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Owen McSwiney, Robert Griffier painter, the Adams brothers design, Westminster Bridge, William Hogarth
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canaletto: capturing the body english
Canaletto and his postcard from London. A little too picure perfect. What was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny afternoon… On the whole, London was lucky in that the town’s best source of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, Chelsea Ware, Henry Fielding, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier painter, Steele and Addison, Thomas Chippendale furniture, Wedgewood pottery
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canaletto: from venice to the thames
Canaletto’s iconic painting, A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace is a picture perfect postcard, but behind this idyllic view of eighteenth century London was simply too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. In fact, much was happening … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, David Garrick, Henry Fielding, Hyde Park floggings, Judith Dufour, London eighteenth-century, London the Spectator, London the Tatler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier, Samuel Scott painter, Smith's Square London, Tyburn public hangings
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canaletto and London: a bit too postcard perfect
The best of cities, in the best of seasons. But what was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny afternoon. After all, the picture is just too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. … Continue reading
among the prince of dandies: lookin’ for homespun dignity
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Marriage as an “excellent mystery.” Both the Carlyle’s, despite their quirks and prejudices, were fond of entertaining newcomers. Since the publication of Sartor Resartus, Carlyle had become a literary lion, and Jane, for all … Continue reading
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Tagged Captain Rees Howell Gronow, Charles Dickens, Comte d'Orsay, Count d'Orsay, George Frederick Watts, Geraldine Jewsbury, Harriet Martineau, Jane and Thomas Carlyle marriage, Lady Ashburton, Leigh Hunt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sir George Hayter, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus
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