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dancing with phantoms
…ghost dance and cargo cult…In times of stress look for the prophets of an earthly paradise: Handsome Lake of Mohammed, Lenin or the Teacher of Righteousness. America is always ready willing and able for any millennial cult that presents itself… … Continue reading
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Tagged Cargo Cults, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Father Groppi, John Cage, Kenneth Knowlton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Malcolm X Black Muslims, Martin Luther, Neil Krug, Noam Chomsky, Peter Zinovieff, Pontiac Indian Chief, Slavoj Zizek, Umberto Eco
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swift kick in the keegster
Psst! Pass the bum wipe. Perversion seems intrinsic to modern art, at least at the split off side that gazes into the bowl of disavowal. And this has been so from the beginning; the long arc extending back to an … Continue reading
right place wrong time
The winds that buffeted Erasmus of Rotterdam blew from more than one direction. One form of intolerance he might have withstood, but two were too many. That was the tragedy of Europe’s first liberal…. Erasmus is more than any other … Continue reading
take off your hat when the hearse passes
God always seems to be bumping into an atheist’s head in the most unexpected places. There was always Voltaire fessin’ up on his deathbed.His almost comic anti-semitism attributed to a repressed piety and faith. But, then he was always angling … Continue reading
luther: black market of indulgences
Last summer 800 three foot high statuettes of sixteenth-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther popped up in the town square of Wittenberg in Eastern Germany. The red, green, blue and black figurines are the work of artist Ottmar Hoerl and were … Continue reading
fiddler on a hot church roof
Martin Luther is still creating controversy. Recently, about 800 statuettes of the 16th-century Protestant reformer popped up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first preached against practices of the Roman Catholic church almost five hundred years ago. … Continue reading
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Tagged Johann Gottfried Schadow, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, mary fulbrook, Ottmar Hoerl, Pope Alexander VI, pope innocent VIII, pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, Raphael, thirty years war, William James
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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt
Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer
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BONFIRE OF THE DIVINITIES
640 A.D. : According to legend, the caliph Omar burned all 200,000 volumes in the library at Alexandria in Egypt. In doing so, he said: “If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God they are useless … Continue reading
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