Tag Archives: Jean Cocteau

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!

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Mistletoe for Marat

“C’est en faisant un peu les choses qu’on arrive à ne rien faire du tout.​” Jean Cocteau

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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

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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

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everything is broken

Narrative momentum. The very element lacking in our daily life. Are sort seems to be what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics” ; making new out of the scrap heap of discard, an early perception of appropriation and genre bending that … Continue reading

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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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artful banker

David Rockefeller’s buying program at the Chase Manhattan Bank made it the greatest corporate patron of art, and started the game of corporate art collecting. It was the thing to do if you were a big blue chip American businessman … Continue reading

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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

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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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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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