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Tag Archives: Francisco Goya
status conscious: c’mon give them a pass
The moral relativity game. Couch in the grand majesterial gesures of the European Liberal enlightenment. Apply a generous dose of moral relativity, bake until the “other” acts as a colonialized and parasitic caricature, then preach from the perch of moral … Continue reading
the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh
The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves. You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading
mad about goats
Men who stare at goats and then steal them. They don’t even have to do a messy slaughter. They just stare at them until they croak and roll over. Think of goat rustling as paranormal phenomenon in the national interest … Continue reading
captain dreyfus: court farcial
…The premier, Charles Aexandre Dupuy, the foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotux, and other cabinet colleagues whom Mercier consulted, had advised against hasty action in the case: the reactions of both the French public and the German Kaiser were dangerously unpredictable. Gen. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. A. Panizzardi, Col. Henry Dreyfus Affair, Col. Jean Sandherr, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Honore Daumier, Ilan Halimi, Jean-Louis Levy, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Robert Maguire, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Tom Verlaine, Vincent Duclert historian, Yolande Jansen
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just find a good tree
All’s quiet on the Leftern Front. How can the left massage the data, strain some liberal secular humanism out of the issue of attempted lynching of Sudanese refugees/illegals in the Moslem Israel village of Kfar Manda. Here, they don’t have … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Americans for Peace Now, Eritrean refugees Israel, Francisco Goya, Goya Disasters of War, gush katif, International Solidarity Movement ISM, Jacques Callot, Jewish Voices for Peace, Kfar Manda brawl with Eritreans, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mitchell Plitnick, MK Michael Ben Ari, Post Zionism, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, SOS Israel, thirty years war, Ulpana Beit El, William Hogarth, William Hogarth Wheel of Fortune
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still looking for the source of the nile
As a captive in Egypt, Louis IX was on hand to witness the unhappy end of Saladin’s dynasty, when Turan-Shah, the last of the line, was killed by his stepmother’s slaves in the river Nile. For more than a century … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Belzoni explorer, English withdrawal Egypt 1952, Francisco Goya, Giovanni Belzoni in Egypt, King Farouk Egypt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Ali ( 1769-1849 ), Muhammed Ali Egypt, Napoleon in Egypt, Ottoman Turks Egypt, Saladin dynasty Egypt
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a-roving on the wane and sane
The cup is full and sometimes it runneth over. The moon has always been, since the dawn of the human being, a symbol of love, and a pervasive theme among artists such as poets, novelists and writers and painters within … Continue reading
remnants of remnants
… the passing of Benzion Netanyahu, scholar, Zionist leader, and father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was 102.He saw a lot. He was termed a right wing nutjob and loathed by the bourgeois white liberal Israeli establishment. The problem … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, Cardinal Ratzinger, Francisco Goya, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Hannah Arendt, jabotinsky, Jabotinsky Betar, Labor Zionism, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Political Zionism, Pope Ratzinger, Spanish Inquisition, yair stern, Zeev Jabotinsky, Zionist revisionism
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picasso comet
The effect of the rise of esteem in the earlier periods of Picasso automatically put a grip on the reception of the later ones as they came off the easel. Since the end of WWII every freshly painted Picasso was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Francisco Goya, Ilya Repin, Jackson Pollock, Jonathan Richman, jonathan richman pablo picasso, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Man Ray, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Analyst Cubist period, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Valentine Dedensing, William Blake
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