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romancing the joan
The trial and execution of Joan of Arc was just the beginning for the poor soul. In the centuries since the Maid has continued to provoke anger and awe, becoming a symbol for monarchists, romantics, Left and Right… Another movement … Continue reading
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Tagged Alphonse de Lamartine, Andre Dahl, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Bertolt Brecht, Brecht Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Fremiet sculptor, Friedrich Schiller, George W. Joy, Hermann Anton Stilke, Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Quicherat, Landor, Michelet Histoire de France, Perceval de Cagny, Southey, Tchaikovsky, Thomas De Quincey
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main street: direct appeal to the senses
Period pieces. Toby Tyler, circa 1890 and chockablock with tried and tested cliches which work pretty well, even by today’s standards. Toby Tyler, an orphan, and Disney is really the patron saint of orphans, who lives with a crosspatch uncle … Continue reading
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Tagged Clement Greenberg, Friedrich Schiller, Gabrielle Thuller, Hegel Philosopher, hermann broch, Ilya Repin, Immanuel Kant, Kevin Corcoran, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mr. Stubbs Toby Tyler, Thomas Kulka, Toby Tyler Disney movie
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visceral forms: “what’s inside a girl”
The persistence of the nude. We have had more or less traditional treatment since Marcel Duchamp, followed by Picasso and abstract expressionism rendered her to the scrapheap of history. Lo and behold, she could not be avoided for long. It … Continue reading
the good angels gulp and groan
In general, the notion that Heinrich Heine represented a “wound” became common currency in Germany after 1945, reflecting the German wound of the war and the country’s subsequent division; all interpretations have transformed themselves into a cultural problem and a … Continue reading
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Tagged felix born, Friedrich Schiller, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Herman Hesse, Honore Daumier, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig Boerne, Martin Buber, Otto Dix, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann
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ONCE UPON A TIME…
Napoleon’s armies overran Germany….”but not only did we seek something of consolation in the past, our hope, naturally, was that this course of ours should contribute somewhat to the return of a better day.” While “foreign persons, foreign manners, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Byron, Clemens Brentano, Coleridge, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Schiller, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Gustaf Tengren, Gustav Mahler, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Marianne Stokes, Narianne Stokes, Novalis, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Richard Cleasby, Robert Leinweber, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Theodor Benfey, W.H. Auden, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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MUSIC & MADNESS: AN IMP OF A LIBRETTO
A cursed libretto is not your typical campfire ghost story.Its not a joking anecdote to be easily dismissed either. Its one helluva an imp who has displayed wildly inconsistent behavior over the years. The specific association of music and madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Brian Wilson, Bruce Elder, Buddy Holly, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Daniel Kreps, Denis Diderot, Django Reinhardt, Donizetti, E.T.A. Hoffman, Echo Lamb, Elfriede Jelinek, Elvis Presley, Etienne Carjot, Foucault, Francesco Piave, Francis Toye, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schiller, Gunter grass, Hegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Jack Unteweger, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Lennon, John Malkovich, Kate Connolly, Kurt Vonnegut, Lana Clarkson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Haselbock, Martin Scorsese, Melchiorre Delfico, Merelli La Scala, Michael Sturminger, Mick Brown, Norman Mailer, Phil Spector, Renata Tibaldi, Robert Johnson, Rossini, Shakespeare, The Ramones, Tina Turner, Victor Hugo, Vikram Jayanti, Voltaire
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ROMANA GOETHE & EROTICA FAUSTINA
”Goethe’s writings are among the most unabashedly autobiographical in world literature. They are so frank and utterly open as to carry well beyond the reality of objective events into the much more intimately real imaginative world. That may be why … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelica Kauffmann, Bridge markland, Carl August Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great, Friedrich Schiller, German Literature, Goethe, Goethe Erotica Romana, Goethe Faustina, Goethe in Rome, Goethe Roman Elegies, Johann Joseph Schmeller, Karl Bruillov, Lewis Lapham, Voltaire, W. Tishbein
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