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declaration of inter-dependence
Marcel Marceau as Madame Pickwick’s “chargée d’affaires” at ONU. Finally a porte-parole who speaks a language all the talking heads can easily grasp!
Mistletoe for Marat
“C’est en faisant un peu les choses qu’on arrive à ne rien faire du tout.” Jean Cocteau
who can like the highlands?
Or so asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. … Among the arts of life, Jean Cocteau once … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged David Hume, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jean Cocteau, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wilkes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson, Tom Davies Bookshop
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bohemia on central park west
Art mirrored life and vice-versa in painter John Koch’s polished household, a milieu that was as far from a traditional garret as one could get… About eighty New York blocks separated the sumptuously appointed fourteen-room apartment of the painter John … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Ania Dorfman, Dora Zaslavsky, Grady Turner, Harold Bauer, Hilton Kramer, Jean Cocteau, Johan Zoffany, John Koch, Leo Lerman, Maurice Grosser, Mrs. Edgar Feder, Raphael Soyer, Wassily Kandinsky, William Backhaus
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between five and six: cruising with the marquise
The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Gilles Deleuze, Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget
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human oh too human
A funny and peculiar war it was. Especially in wartime Vichy Paris which stretched the lexicon of all the imaginative permutations that plumbed the bottom of French culture. The complexities of that particular context were splendidly shrewd and also quite … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article
Tagged Alain Resnais, Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Dreyfus Affair, henri Bergson, jacqueline delubac, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel Ophul, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, robert brasillach, Sacha Guitry, Sarah Bernhardt
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max has wings
Its such a weird story and Picasso was such a cowardly figure. The myth of the great resistor is bunk. How di he get to paint so prodigiously during the war with the finest materials available? Max Jacob knew the … Continue reading
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Tagged alan dixon, amedeo modigliani, Arno Breker, brasillach, dan frank, gabriel aghion, Gertrude Stein, Hilton Kramer, irene nemirovsky, Jean Cocteau, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso, patricia sustrac, Robert Desnos, ward houser
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melancholy scribbles and drips: one dribble at a line
Mere doodling of only psychological interest? Even then. After its initial surge of authenticity could abstract expressionism be sustained? The mendaciousness of the art industry to hype this style knew no bounds. Like Marcel Duchamp asserting that everyone is an … Continue reading
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Tagged american abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, roberto matta, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, stanley william hayter, Surrealism, Tony Matta
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