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old warsaw: honky chateaus and the polish paradox
The destruction of Poland during WWII was unprecedented. The past is, in many real ways, the only material out of which to construct the future since so many citizens draw their sustenance, spiritual as well as economic, from the city. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardo Bellotto polish paintings, Copernicus statue Warsaw, Dawid Warszawski, Dr. Karol Estreicher, Frederic Chopin, Jan Zachwatowicz, Jerzy Urban, Jozef Sigalin, Konstanty Gebert, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nazi destruction Warsaw, Piotr Bieganski, Warsaw Market Square, Warsaw reconstruction, Warsaw reconstruction after WWII, Warsaw Rising Museum, warsaw uprising 1944, Wilanow Palace Poland
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small is beautiful: a free man in paris
It was a time when Paris was a city for the young. Students, painters, intellectuals, journalists, grisettes: all were there along with a young German poet who recorded a period of creative ferment between one revolution and the next. …. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Amalia Keller, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Gérard de Nerval, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vernet, Niall Ferguson, Paris July Revolution 1831, salomon heine, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, victor-jean nicolle, wolfgang menzel
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chopin of dissonance: nocturnes on renunciations of reality
For sixteen prolific years in France prior to splitting with George Sand, Chopin had produced an uninterrupted stream of masterpieces on such a consistently brilliant level of craftsmanship and invention that it is well-nigh impossible to talk of a bell … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Bach, Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Hannelore Mundt, Heinrich Heine, Jane Birkin, Oscar Wilde, Pauer, Radek Sikorski, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Serge Gainsbourg, Thomas Mann
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liberated from foursquare classical rhythms
His life was brilliant and brief, much like his masterpieces on the piano. This segment tracks Frederic Chopin in Paris. He had left Poland to spend eight inhospitable months in Vienna before making his way to Paris at he time … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Henryk Siemieradzki, Honore Daumier, Jean Louis Bezard, Michael Lunts, William Heath, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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IMPOSSIBLE WORLD: DISILLUSIONED SOULS AS A REFRAMED VALUE
Jean Antoine Watteau( 1684-1721) was thirty-three when he painted “Embarkation” . Two years later in 1719 he went to London to sonsult Dr. Richard mead, the queen’s physician, and was there subjected to such treatment as the best medical knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Crozat, Auguste Renoir, Calvin Seerveld, Camille Mauclair, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Etienne Jeurat, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Frederic Chopin, Georgia Cowart, Helene Adhemar, Jakob Rosenberg, James Panero, Jean Baptiste Francois Pater, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Kit Andrews, Lancret, Lisa MacDonald, Martha Rosler, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Monika Szewczyk, Nicolas Lancret, Perrin Stein, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Pierre Rosenberg, R.H. Wilenski, René Huyghe, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Thomas Crow, Walter Pater
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BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all
Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Arielle Dombasle, Arthur Miller, Bernard-Henry Levy, Byron, Charles Dickens, Corot, David Goldblatt, David Grigg, E.J. Trelawny, Edward Steichen, F.W. Murnau, Flaubert, Fred Inglis, Frederic Chopin, Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Henri Bernard-Levy, James Meek, John Keats, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joseph Severn, Lara Feigel, Leo Tolstoy, Lord Byron, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rene Chateaubriand, Richard Wagner, Ron Mueck, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Medwin, Victor Hugo
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THE HOPE PRINCIPLE
The Medusa, a naval frigate, ran aground off Mauritania in July 1816. Only about 250 of the 400 people on board could fit into the lifeboats. On a jerry-built raft about 150 of the others were set adrift. By the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Berlioz, Charles Darwin, Chaumariex Medusa, De Musset, Ernst Bloch, Frederic Chopin, French Romantic Art, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Jacques-Louis David, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Robin Spencer, Romanticism Painting, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman
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