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picasso: life as phases
Picasso was always, like a playwright, constantly “in dialogue” with his audience, ever needing the audience, sensing it and feeling it out like a lover pursuing the object of his affections. He was, in many ways, a metteur en scene, … Continue reading
muggeridge…punch for compass
Its always fascinating how people can make surprising unexpected transformations in their lives that leave one reaching for a guide for the perplexed. A classic case was Malcolm Muggeridge the fiesty agnostic editor of Punch, the irreverent British magazine, who … Continue reading
waugh: enjoying the little box
Phantom voices.Evelyn Waugh was a strange bird: the sort of upper class British snobbism that has been washed away; the reactionary conservative with an almost paranoid fear of the “other” with particular emphasis on Jews, who, based on his own … Continue reading
looking smart
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is what a smart book looks like. new directions paperbacks were throughout the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s the quintessential image of intelligence. all you had to do was walk around with one tucked under your … Continue reading
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Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, Andre Gide, art chantry, dover books, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, gilda kuhlman, Herman Hesse, James Agee, james laughlin, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nathaniel West, new directions paperbacks, trade paperback books, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan
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naipaul: at the mercy of the “bow and arrow men”
“If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. …Writers should provoke disagreement.” – V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul is something of a master craftsman in putting down rivals, the art of invidious comparison, and the guile of over-the-top self adulation. It … Continue reading
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Tagged aminatta forna, dick cavett, Evelyn Waugh, Gore Vidal, Jane Austen, Jonathan McIntosh, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath, margaret gooding, Norman Mailer, patrick french, paul theroux, rob nixon, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen, v.s. naipaul, william langley
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gold rings in a Cretan dark age
It was unearthed in a burial chamber of a Minoan princess. It indicated that Crete, even in its “dark age” nourished a brilliant civilization…. “An unusual find was made however, close to the entrance to the side chamber, when the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cathy Gere, Dilys Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Heraklion Museum, J.A. MacGillivary, John Sakellarakis, King of Minos Ring, Mary Beard, Minoan Crete, ring of minos, Sir Arthur Evans
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UNORDAINED PASSION:AN AVANT GARDE DIVINE MERCY
If you judged these things solely by press headlines, you would assume that the pope was about to face a lynch mob of jeering Protestants and vengeful atheists. Most Britons, we are told, are disgusted at the thought of spending … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Murray, Albert Camus, Ambroise Vollard, André Suares, Araminta Worsworth, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Catholic democrat Lammenais, Evelyn Waugh, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Geoffrey Robertson, Georges Rouault, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Iain Martin Wall Street Journal, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Maritain, James Thrall Soby, Jean Paul Sartre, Julie Burchill, Léon Bloy, Lionello Venturi, Pablo Picasso, Peter Tatchell, Rembrandt, Richard Dawkins, Seamus L. Gaffney, Stephen Fry, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Huxley
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FAUST IN THE HAUS
MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, Or the ocean to overwhelm … Continue reading
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Tagged Anabaptists Munster, Bette Davis, Carl Jung, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Evelyn Waugh, George S. Kaufman, Goethe, Hans Brosamer, Hans Sebald Beham, Jan of Leyden, Jimmy Durante, John Bingley Garden, Lucas Cranach, Martin Luther, Moss Hart, Norman Cohn, Peter Coke, Psychic Epidemics, Ricardo Falero, Sigrun Haude
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