Tag Archives: Ford Madox Ford

liberal bias: in-conscience of a liberal

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dave

The quintessential bleeding heart liberal, the kind of perverse sensibility guided by blinders and unwilling and ineffective in bringing about meaningful change. The establishment liberal , who according to Joseph Conrad, was a “moralist who betrayed rather than revealed the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged a.j. cronin, Arnold Bennett, D.H. Lawrence, edward garnett, Ford Madox Ford, george elgar hicks, H.G. Wells, isadora Duncan, John Sloan, Joseph Conrad, L.S. Lowry, leon schalit, nick hubble, raymond duncan, ross mckibbon, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith, zinaida serebryakova | Leave a comment

writing from the port side

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Dave

These things happen. John Galsworthy became involved with a girl whom his family which to distance their son from at all costs. Since his father, who was to be the senior member of the Forsyte family in Galsworthy’s The Forsyte … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, Ford Madox Ford, henry scott tuke, James McNeill Whistler, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, John William Waterhouse, Joseph Conrad, joseph crawhall, kirsten cale, nick hubble, Sam Huntington, Sigmund Freud, steven metz, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

kicking the can down the road: again

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Dave

There is no doubt that poverty is degrading, and through force, legislation, moral suasion,manipulation, blackmail, soft euthanasia, and “gaming” democracy and elementary social responsibility we have gloriously succeeded in creating the scenario for economic collapse and social and political insurrection. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Amy Goodman, Bobby Seale, Camp Forest tent city, cornel west, Emile Durkheim, erskine nichol painter, erskine nicol painter, Ford Madox Ford, Frans Hals, frederick walker paintings, george elgar hicks, harry belafonte, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Luke Fildes, Martin Luther King, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, sir samuel luke fildes, Stephen Colbert, tavis smiley, ted sanderson, the Heritage Foundation, tim geithner, war on poverty | Leave a comment

LEFT WAITING AT THE ALTAR IN ROME

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dave

The road to Rome. All literary roads appear to lead to Rome as well. The city has always attracted writers . They have mourned its fall and complained about its decadence; but it has not stopped them from coming. ”In … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexander the Great, Alexandre Menjaud, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Benjamin West, Countess de Beaumont, Destutt de Tracy, Destutt psychology, Duke of Modena, Ford Madox Ford, Giotto, Giotto di Bordone, Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, John Keats, Louis Dupre, Martial Daru, Michelangelo, Napoleon Invasion of Italy, Pope Pius VII, Princess Borghese, Rene Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Stendhal Roman Journal, Stendhal Syndrome | Leave a comment

LEFT WAITING AT THE ALTAR IN ROME

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Dave

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexandre Menjaud, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Countess de Beaumont, Destutt psychology, Duke of Modena, Ford Madox Ford, Giotto, Giotto di Bordone, Henri Beyle, Jacques-Louis David, Louis Dupre, Martial Daru, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon Italian Campaign, Pope Pius VII, Poussin, Princess Borghese, Rene Chateaubriand, Standhal Roman Journal, Stendhal, Stendhal Syndrome | Leave a comment

LAST VIBRATIONS

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Dave

As long as the many war campaigns of the twelfth century were conducted on a reasonably friendly footing they brought no intolerable hardship to the people who dwelled in the shadow of the castles. But early in the thirteenth century … Continue reading →