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1939: the two americas
…The social and political attitudes that had arisen out of the depression were stil firmly in control of the national mind. There were, as John Dos Passos had written, two Americas: the capitalistic one that saw the solution to its … Continue reading
1939: ole times sake
America in 1939, stuck between the rear-view mirror of the Great Depression and the impending war. Idyllic times? The good ole’ days? The New York World’s Fair of 1939 had as its theme “the world of tomorrow,” one based on … Continue reading
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Tagged 1939 America, 1939 New York World's Fair, Edward D. Stone, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, H.M. Lynd, International Style Building architecture, James reston, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Murray Kempton, Philip L. Goodwin
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the shadow side of the page
Hemingway: the image and the shadow. What lay behind the dazzling public persona he created for himself? … It must be remembered that the image is an essential part of the truth about Hemingway. Not only did he project an … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Carlos Baker writer, Clive Owen actor, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway big game hunter, Ernest Hemingway fisherman, Ernest Hemingway public image, Gellhorn wife of Hemingway, Hemingway and Gellhorn movie, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martha Gellhorn, Nicole Kidman, Robert Capa, Sigmund Freud
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lost generation: secret wound
The image and the shadow of Ernest Hemingway. What psychic jackals stalked the dazzling public persona? … Of course, the real importance of the Hemingway image has been its effect on literary history. it appeared at exactly the right time: … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Carlos Baker biographer, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway image, F.Scott Fitgerald, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, John Dos Passos, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Lost generation of writers, William Faulkner
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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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there’s plenty of room at the bottom
From the previous post that brought up Harry Saltzman, one of the originators of developing the social realism genre of film. Of course, Saltzman did not operate in a vacuum, but he had an intuitive sense that connected the north … Continue reading
signs and signifiers: the snapper
He is made out to be an original traveling troubador, but the reality is more varied and complex in the case of Woody Guthrie than being a mere singer of Cantos in the transplanted Spanish heartland of dust bowl America. … Continue reading
mural mural on the wall…
Can street art murals be simply too hot to handle for the public to view? Are the public funds and corporate subsidies often used to produce it any more disreputable than the same norms that permit corporations to peddle much … Continue reading
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Tagged adrienne bennett, Diego Rivera, diego rivera murals, Frida Kahlo, graham w.j. beal, Henry James Thaddeus, Jacques Ranciere, jeffrey deitch, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, judy taylor maine mural, Leon Trotsky, mike tipping, paul lepage maine governor, Slavoj Zizek, street artist blu
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Heresy on the Guest list: too darn hot
Heresy has always had many faces. The classic division has always followed the Voltaire pattern of speaking truth to power in order to be absorbed within the establishment, and accept the sacraments. Heresy has traditionally been seen as four faced: … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Benozzo Gozzoli, Charles Lindberg, Charles Lindbergh, Cole Porter, Dorothy Thompson, Ethan Mordden, Ethel Waters, Fred Astaire, Goethe, Grouch Marx, John Dos Passos, John Ford, John Wycliffe, Katharine Hepburn, Moss Hart, Pedro Berruguete, Simon Magus, Sinclair Lewis, Stefan Kanfer, Truman Capote, Voltaire
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