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Tag Archives: Honore Daumier
tergenev: high tide for the serf
The great emancipator: Ivan Turgenev and his collection of stories A Sportsman’s Sketch. He helped bring freedom to the serf by the devastating method of showing them what their lives were like through fiction… …Even in those stories where the … Continue reading
captain dreyfus: court farcial
…The premier, Charles Aexandre Dupuy, the foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotux, and other cabinet colleagues whom Mercier consulted, had advised against hasty action in the case: the reactions of both the French public and the German Kaiser were dangerously unpredictable. Gen. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. A. Panizzardi, Col. Henry Dreyfus Affair, Col. Jean Sandherr, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Honore Daumier, Ilan Halimi, Jean-Louis Levy, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Robert Maguire, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Tom Verlaine, Vincent Duclert historian, Yolande Jansen
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1848 again? …the madcap laughs
An Arab Spring. Riots over a stupid internet film, the Innocence of Muslims, The Occupy Movement, technological unemployment. Continents are trembling and a world is awakening. In some ways, our past several years, and the so called American “fiscal cliff” … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 1848 Tuileries, Alphonse de Lamartine, Arnold Toynbee, Chateau d'Eau fire 1848, Emile de Girardin, Eugene Hagnauer, eugene sue, Guizot 1848, Honore Daumier, Jules Gaildrau, Louis Philippe 1848, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Palais Royale 1848, Philippoteaux painter, Victor Hugo
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reviving common sense
The decline of common sense. And why we might wish to revive it. …Prideful people, understandably, dislike serving on juries, for common sense is a fierce humbler of pride and egotism. It tells the person with a theory that they … Continue reading
nobody’s perfect!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sort of. Maybe these posthumous conversions are seen as a service, to prevent the heretics from perishing in hell. They get to pick an choose over the dead, and these tend … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne Frank Mormon baptism, Christopher Hitchens, Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel mormonism, Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom American religion, Honore Daumier, Jerusalem Third Temple, Joseph Smith Mormon, matisyahu, Mormon Religion, Mormonism Mitt Romney, Nazi destruction of Warsaw, Simon Wiesenthal
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smuggle the uncomfortable
“The contradictory works of storied illustrator Norman Rockwell resonate in an age of anxiety”, or so the article began. Well enough anyway. But downhill from there. There is a process of historical revisionism underway that seeks to place Rockwell solidly … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Cornelius Krieghoff, dave hickey, Edward Hopper, Ernest Hemingway, Frans Hals, Honore Daumier, James McNeil Whistler, James McNeill Whistler, Kate taylor, kate taylor globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Rockwell, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek
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love at last sight
The creator of all this decadence and all its obscure strands was Baudelaire. His poetry collection called The Flowers of Evil from 1857, is a classic and seminal piece of decadent writing influencing everyone from Walter Benjamin to Henry Miller … 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
poverty: robbery assault and flattery
Is it right for heart to be too often in the right place? The epitome of the bleeding heart liberal.Can pity be the artists worst enemy? John Galsworthy’s father became a lawyer but thought little of that dusty profession in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Charles Le Brun, Corot, Edouard Manet, france revolution 1848, French Political Satire, GOP leadership, Gov. Rick Perry, harriet cohen, Honore Daumier, John Galsworthy, john noble, martin luther king monument, Myra Hess, Nicolas Poussin, Obama jobs plan, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, The Affordable Care Act, u.s. poverty statistics
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