Tag Archives: Germaine Greer

olympia : defiantly real people

Perversion as the implicit dynamic of all modern art? The underlying factor of fueling the entire art/entertainment complex as an effort of a manageable and incremental representation of the perverse. Almost all modernism can be equated with the perverse both … Continue reading

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client and customer: freebies on the family

Olympia is one of the most famous paintings, one that could say marked the iconic launch of the modern era in art. The background to the work may be seen in Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil, a very pessimistic … Continue reading

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STRANGER THAN FICTION: Solomon on the River Thames

Of Humber would complain, I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. ( Andrew Marvel , 1650 ) Convinced that Armageddon was at hand, the God-fearing … Continue reading

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STAG PARTY: DEPRAVITY, DEBAUCHERY & DEER

“The late autumn sun laid a radiant haze over the new sodded winter grass of the lawn, and even in the woods the sun shone through places where the leaves were not so dense, to make fiery golden patterns on … Continue reading

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A BLIND DATE WITH BLIND FATE

”In both the film and its source, the scandalously popular novel by Fanny Hurst, Ray has economic and social options other than life in the Back Street. It may be the devil’s bargain under the patriarchy, but it is a … Continue reading

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