Tag Archives: Hieronymous Bosch

kafka by the pound : surprise pack

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Dave

Weights and Measures. Precision. A commodity worth its weight in shekels. Better yet, take the talens of silver and gold. The trial he could not have foreseen. The scales of justice where his literary manuscripts, letters, diverse scribblings, and so … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged David Blumberg, David Mairowitz, Esther Hoffe, Franz Kafka, Hieronymous Bosch, mathew abbott, Max Brod, Max Horkheimer, oren weinberg, Robert Crumb, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

touching a small nerve: profoundly

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Dave

When everything seems great, everyone appears to get on great, but there is an essential ingredient missing.An intangible awkwardness that defies resolution. Everyone wants freedom from cheese. Or do we?… Because Bernard Berenson was more respected and learned than any … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, bernard baruch, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Hieronymous Bosch, Jackson Pollock, joseph duveen, marinus van reymerswaele, mary berenson, Meyer Schapiro, Quentin Massys, quentin metsys, robert fulford national post, Ronnie Burkett, suburgatory, Terry Teachout, Virgil Thomson | Leave a comment

angel fatigue: it’s lonely at the top

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

Rewards and air miles. frequent flyers.Who knows who you’ll cross flight paths with up in the heavens. Its a difficult issue in dealing with whether ,and how many other spirits in the celestial hierarchy are good or evil, fallen or … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged amy winehouse, barbara taylor, bernard j. bamberger, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, fraser harrison, harry m. olinsky, Hieronymous Bosch, Honoré Fragonard, Jacques Callot, Jean Genet, john dryden, John Milton, Joost van den Vondel, Martin Buber, Randy Newman, Rembrandt, Salvador dali, sarah ellis, Vondel, William Blake | Leave a comment

hunting in our own snow

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Dave

Such an effort to hit the trail for running as autumn, the compound interest of shorter days upon the pressing consideration of motivation and lack thereof, the dynamic of gravity and general inertia, and ultimately, a Viktor Frankl style will … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bruegel hunters in the snow, Eli Siegel, Ernst Gombrich, helen gardner, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacob Wisse, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin, William Carlos Williams | Leave a comment

haywain: pulling at straws of pessimism

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dave

The Haywain by Hieronymus Bosch is almost as complex as the Garden of Earthly Delights. It carries a similar message; that of desperate pessimism. Even in the darkest of the Christian books of the Bible Hell exists for the damned, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged bill stover solyndra, bosch the haywain, brian harrison solyndra, Charles de Tolnay, christopher jesus ferguson, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, howard lederer full tilt poker, joseph heath, Lord Byron, meir margalit, Michael Moore, occupy wall street, Pieter Bruegel, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

flight of the earthly delights: path to the bonfire

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dave

Life in the central panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s greatest painting, often called The Garden of Earthly Delights, is unencumbered by conscience, clothing, or cognizance of any higher goal than pleasure. There has been no more enigmatic painter than Bosch, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged arnaud lagardere, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, carol bartz firing, Charles de Tolnay, daniel loeb third point, dr. hemphill, Erasmus, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Hieronymous Bosch, jade foret, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, professor carstairs, Reebok easy tone, roy bostock | Leave a comment

when my ship comes in

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Dave

Identity crisis. Crisis what Crisis? The debate inside Israel over these issues is passionate and ongoing, but perhaps not too profound. It stays in the comfort zone, preventing an articulation of a coherent definition of its own identity. If the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged asher ginsberg, balfour declaration, Baruch Spinoza, bialik poet, byron l. sherwin, caspar david freidrich, ephraim kishon, George Grosz, Gershom Scholem, haim naham bialik, Hieronymous Bosch, Honore de Balzac, Maimonides, noam chomsky middle east, nurit gertz, pieter bruegel parable of the blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rick Salutin, ronit lentit, Theodor Herzl | Leave a comment

the right must leave: no dawdling. no loitering.

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Dave

State of exception. Land of confusion. It can be plausibly be asserted that Zionism has been intertwined in racial identity issues since its modern incarnation that began before Herzl. The hierarchy and pecking order, the old tropes of status and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged a.d. gordon, a.m. klein, benny morris, Byron Childe Harolde, david frischman, David Lean, Edward Said, eugene fromentin, fatma kassen, Hieronymous Bosch, ilan pappe, lev grinberg, Martin Buber, meir margalit, Michael Greenstein, Michel Foucault, noah j. efron, noam chomsky middle east, omar sharif, peter o'toole, rafael falk, T.E. Lawrence, Tim Dirks, William Butler Yeats, yakov m. rabkin, Yeats Sailing to Byzantium | Leave a comment

paradox: soul on ice and fire

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dave

Rembrandt’s vagabond prints were studies of despair and wretchedness far removed from say, the Frans Hals norm of guileful, droll figures within the tradition of moral satire that reaffirmed popular images of the bottom of the social rung. Rembrandt, though, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bosch prodigal son, cornel west, Frans Hals, gary schwartz, Hieronymous Bosch, Martin Buber, mitch snyder, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, rembrandt return of the prodigal son, rembrandt the jewish bride, Sandro Botticelli | Leave a comment

the fallen: paradox of the soul

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dave

The Belgian film Hasta La Vista, about three disabled young men on a road trip in Spain’s wine country to lose their virginity in a specialty bordello, has been getting some critical acclaim, most notably, the grand prize at the … Continue reading →