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Tag Archives: Edouard Manet
dada: nothing is by accident
It began with an ironic and anarchic temper with origins in eighteenth century skepticism which was subsequently absorbed into the culture of urban and metropolitan thought processes through Baudelaire and Manet among others and it all came to a scrappy … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Art
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Dada Art, Edouard Manet, jean arp, Johannes Baargeld, Kurt Schwitters
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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Cabanel Birth of Venus, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Emperor Napoleon III, French Salon Art, John Wolfe banker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rosa Bonheur, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir Edwin Landseer
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goncourt recollections
…As it turned out, however, it was none of these things that rescued the Goncourts from “oblivion.” It was, rather, their Journals — the scandalous, vain, vengeful, brutally honest diaries in which the two brothers, and then Edmond alone, wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Faubert, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Brothers journal, Gustave Courbet, Guy de Maupassant, Henri de Regnier, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Swinburne, Victor Hugo
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goncourt: red-hot scalpel
The bothers Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, were nobly born. They were rich. But they had the misfortune to be intelligent. Therefore, they were unhappy. They wanted to be famous; they longed to be eminent authors, princes in the realm of … Continue reading
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Tagged Academie Goncourt, Alexandre Dumas, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Dore, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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just a bad patch: calling perfection into question
Back to the nude. Sort of. After the classic honeymoon period of art history, came the quarrels and separation. Somehow, it can never quite be patched up and made new like the good ole’ days. Face it, after several millennia … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Botticelli Birth of Venus, Brancusi, David Park art, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, edward muybridge, Franz Kafka, Madame Pickick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Sandro Botticelli, Thomas Eakins
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under cover stock options
The premise of the show, Under Cover Boss was in the vein of Reality television, low cost programming that would convey a sense of authenticity and distill a sense of community of interests between those on the bottom of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Larry O'Donnell WMI, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso Demoiselles D'Avignon, reality television, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, Undercover Boss CBS, Waste Management Company, William Burroughs
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daughter of moses
They were depicted as ugly or extremley cultured and beautiful. They were never “average” as so the travel accounts of Jewish women in Ottoman Turkey have come down to us. It is hard to know the basis for this; in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayazid II, bernard lewis, D.H. Lawrence, Edouard Manet, George Sandys, Immanual Aboab, John Evelyn diarist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Purchas, Sultan Suleyman the magnificent, Thomas Coryate
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the banality of engagement: blame the victims
There is something about Hannah. For some reason Hannah Arendt has been a post-modern magnet for for ant-Jewism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Israel sentiments all nicely couched in the language of human rights, respect, and all manner of motherhood statements that masks … Continue reading
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Tagged Amos Elon, avigail sperber, Ben Hecht, bernard saffran, Deborah Lipstadt, Edouard Manet, eichmann trial, Gideon Hausner, Hannah Arendt, hollerith machine nazis, jabotinsky, karl jaspers, leo baeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Max Lerner, netalie braun, Peter Bergson, Raul Hilberg, tony judt, Walter Benjamin
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brother’s keeper
The perspective of the bull depends on where one is situated. For Hemingway, bullfighting is a metaphor for the intricate but often pre-determined relationships between men and women replete with sacrificial qualities and doused with pagan animalism. From a more … Continue reading