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Tag Archives: Gustave Dore
turgenev: fathers & sons & a smoke
Ivan Turgenev was Russia’s great emancipator of the serf. His method: Show what their lives were really like through his stories and novels… …Alexander II’s emancipation act of the serfs of 1861 was the background for Ivan Turgenev’s next novel, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Kustodiev painter, Czar Alexander II, Gustave Dore, Harriet Beecher Stowe, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Sketches, Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons, Louis Viardot, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pauline Viardot, Russia Serf emancipation
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dual diction
The massive, gossipy Journal of the Goncourt brothers is one of the longest, most absorbing, and perhaps the most enlightening diary in European literature. It is the brilliantly observed, vividly recorded details that make the essential merit of the Goncourt … Continue reading
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Tagged Aby Warburg, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Dore, James Tissot, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Baldwin, Samuel Pepys, William Hickey
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goncourt: red-hot scalpel
The bothers Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, were nobly born. They were rich. But they had the misfortune to be intelligent. Therefore, they were unhappy. They wanted to be famous; they longed to be eminent authors, princes in the realm of … Continue reading
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Tagged Academie Goncourt, Alexandre Dumas, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Dore, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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a river of time
Ancient Egyptians rejoiced in the thought that their country was without history. Their view of the world was static: the best life was one in which everything was always the same. The Nile rose, flooded and receded; the sun crossed … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arab conquest of Egypt Saladin, Crusades in Egypt, Francis of Assisi in Egypt, Giotto di Bordone, Giotto Frescoes, Gustave Dore, ibn-Khaldun medieval Arab scholar, Louis IX in Egypt, Louis King of France in Egypt, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Maimonides in Egypt, Napoleon in Egypt, sultan al-Kamil Egypt, The Arab Spring, Turan-Shah killed in Egpt
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crime is remarkably pragmatic
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) the dark sleazy underbelly of the victorian cultural era criminal is extremely well-chronicled in this old dog-eared paperback book (found in a thrift store for 50¢.) written by Kellow Chesney (great name, eh?), The Victorian … Continue reading
black silver: brushes in shining armor
We heard it confirmed this week that Michael’s will be opening a dozen stores in Quebec over the next I imagine six to eight months, and they plan on predatory pricing for art supplies at 50% off, a kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Caravaggio, Charlie Chaplin, De Serres stores, FM Brush, FM Brush black silver, Gustave Dore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Michael's Quebec, monty python and the holy grail, omer de serres
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bookmarks: the bookworm and memory
Open a book open your mind, or judge a book by its cover? A glass half full or half less full? An exegis of “stuff.” How do we read an evaluate material objects? One of Walter Benjamin’s modes of scholarship … Continue reading
common non-sensical: count your spoons
Common sense is usually said to be sturdy, but in fact it has been faring badly ever since the scientific revolution began. It is plain, common sense declared in those days, that the sun revolves around the earth. Wrong said … Continue reading
the poor don’t need your pity
…But John Galsworthy’s concern with the suffering of others was occasioned more by the pain knowledge of it gave him than by the pain experience of it gave them: It was the sensitive liberal’s position in succinct form.But once awakened … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, arthur galsworthy, augustus edwin mulready, Charles Dickens, george elgar hicks, Gustave Dore, jacob viner, james collinson paintings, Jeremy Bentham, John Galsworthy, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, Malthus, thomas benjamin kennington
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MANTEGNA: MASTER OF THE FANTASTIC & THE TERRIBLE
The gruesome, the tragic and the triumphant that could be depicted with paradoxical decorative elegance. His manner was prickly, his life was mundane and methodical, his painting was poised and static; why then should he have so much power to … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andrea Mantegna, Antonio Maineri, artemisia Gentileschi, Bernardino da Parenzo, Caravaggio, Correggio, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Ettore Camesasca, Gilbert de Bourbon, Giorgio Vasari, Gustave Dore, Isabelle d'Este, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacopo Bellini, Keith Christianson, Lodovico Gonzaga, Mantegna, Nick Milne, Paul Kristeller, Renaissance, Renaissance Art, Robert Hughes, Squarcione, Vasari
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