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fundamental creation: an evolving debate
Supposedly, beliefs do have consequences. And its a long standing argument where a vindication of evolution over revelation is warranted, justified, or an outright falsehood, junk science foisted on the public. Depsite the seeming evidence of random, mutual and natural … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Albrecht Durer, Bob Dylan, Henri Rousseau, Henry Morris, Jan Gossaert, Jan the elder Bruegel, John Whitcomb, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Monty White Answers in Genesis, Paul Broun Republican, Ross Rosevear, The Genesis Flood book, Werner Keller the Bible as History
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forever young: eternal trial
Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading
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Tagged aubrey de Grey, Byron, elixir of youth, Ernest Hemingway, eternal youth, Francois-Hubert Drouais, Goethe, Hans Holbein the younger, james frazer the golden bough, jesus diaz, John Keats, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Milan Kundera, mitochondrial rejuvenation, n.t. wright, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Feynman, ronald a. depinho, telomere length maintenance, tom merry, W.B. Yeats
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kitsch and the scandal of discovery
Maybe its about our ingrained habits of denying what we know, but don’t want to know.What could be termed disavowal. A dark, musty zone between knowing and unknowing. There is nothing sexually overt in John Currin’s paintings, an absence of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Gerhard Richter, john currin, John Haber, kim levin, Lucas Cranach, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Norman Rockwell, rachel feinstein, Robert Hughes, Roy Lichtenstein
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dix & the creative curse: if hollywood say so its O.K.
The idea was to find an idiom that best suited him to criticize the society he found himself: essentially, a capitalist bourgeois Germany. After returning from the front, he passed through the expressionist, futurist and dada schools before settling on … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Christian Schad, Christopher Hitchens, David Seidler, Donald Kuspit, Franz Radziwill, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Lucas Cranach, Mark Vallen, Neville Chamberlain, Otto Dix, Rob Candelino, Russell Smith, Seidler king's Speech, Stuart Elliott, Travis English
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abberations from the ideal form
The German realist movement or broader German expressionist movement of the post WWI era that popularly characterizes Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann, and then links them into a category of depictions of corruption and a largesse of lifestyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Phillips, Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Alessandro Botticelli, Beckmann, Donald Kuspit, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, Intimate Strangers 2004, Jean Paul Sartre, Leo Bersani, Lucas Cranach, Matthias Grunewald, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Patrice Leconte, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sigmund Freud
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TROY AS MYTHOLOGICAL PLOY & APHRODITE AS TOY
”The three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) asked Zeus to present the apple of discord — a beautiful gold sphere — to the one who deserved the title kallista ‘most beautiful’. I know some of the other gods were surprised … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice McMahon White, Aphrodite, Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm Fitger, Bronzino, Claude Verlinde, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Grote, Greek Mythology, Helen of Troy, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lucas Cranach, N.S. Gill, Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens, Sandro Botticelli, Schliemann Troy, Shaft Graves Greece, Tracy Marks, Trojan War, Velasquez, Venus de Milo, Werner Keller the Bible as History, Woody Allen, Zeus and Ganymede, Zeus and Leda
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THE WANDERING MYTH: IF ANYONE FINDS A LOST TROJAN
Its been about one hundred and fifty years since Schliemann discovered the site of Troy. Yet no one has found any evidence that the Greeks ever fought there. The capture of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus have had an … Continue reading
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Tagged Eratosthenes, Frederick Leighton, George Grote, Gustave Moreau, Helen of Troy, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Jacques-Louis David, Lucas Cranach, Michelangelo, Odysseus, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Publius Ovidius Naso, Richard Lattimore, Rubens, Thucydides, Virgil, Virgil Aenid, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, Yeats
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FAUST IN THE HAUS
MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, Or the ocean to overwhelm … Continue reading
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Tagged Anabaptists Munster, Bette Davis, Carl Jung, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Evelyn Waugh, George S. Kaufman, Goethe, Hans Brosamer, Hans Sebald Beham, Jan of Leyden, Jimmy Durante, John Bingley Garden, Lucas Cranach, Martin Luther, Moss Hart, Norman Cohn, Peter Coke, Psychic Epidemics, Ricardo Falero, Sigrun Haude
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SHARPEN YOUR KNIFE & SOFTEN YOUR TONGUE
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s final novel was the ”The Marble Faun” and was inspired and strung together from his notebook that he kept in Rome. The intensity of the subject matter and its interplay between the Jewish and Christian themes within a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch of Titus, Ark of the Covenant, artemisia Gentileschi, Augustus Kolich, Biblical Jael, Biblical Judith, Biblical Salome, David reynolds, David S. Reynolds, Emperor Vespasian, Herb Mandel, Lucas Cranach, Menorah of the temple, Mortara Incident, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pope Pius IX, Reuven Kashani, Sandro Botticelli, Temple Menorah, The Marble Faun, Thomas Cooley
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A GOOD SIN TO SOFTEN YOU
In the Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare,the Christians of the play universally assume that they’re a nobler species than Jews, but Shylock insists that they’re no more pure than Jews and Jews no less human than Christians.Purity and humanity being … Continue reading
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Tagged Aert de Gelder, Al Pacino, David Leverenz, David S. Ramsey, Emile Vernet, Frank Stearns, George parsons lathrop, Giorgione, Giorgione Artist, Jan Lievens, Lucas Cranach, Moses, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter Himmelman, Roy harvey pearce, Shakespeare, The Marble Faun, The Merchant of Venice, Titian
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