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matchmaker: hatch a match
Maria Theresa, Queen of Austria was a die-hard matchmaker. Even amid her sorrows in the 1760’s from losing husband and children, and daughter-in-laws to smallpox in the latter two cases, the Empress continued with her marriage plans. The oldest daughter, … Continue reading
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Tagged Duke Albert of Saxony, French Duc de Chablais, Heinrich Friedrich Fuger, Hofburg Palace, Kaunitz Franco-Austrian alliance, Louis XV France, Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie-Christine Austria, Martin van Meytens, Stanislas King of Poland
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absolutely sweet marie
Michael Haneke wins the Palme D’ Or again. Austria. The perplexing, contradictory and often ambiguous battle ground between the liberal enlightenment, the tradition of Vltaire and Diderot and its almost strange complicity in producing a counter-Enlightenment in the person of … Continue reading
vienna: codes unknown
Slavoj Zizek once said the fundamental principle of Freudian psychoanalysis, that of the “discord between the logic of the psychic apparatus and the demands of reality”; Stanley Milgram once termed the area formed between Budapest, Prague and Vienna, the Golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Habsburg Empire, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maria Theresa of Austria, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Slavoj Zizek, Stanley Milgram, Wilhelm Reich
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the breaking package
The country that gave us Sigmund Freud, Stanley Milgram and Friedrich Hayek economics.That gave us Josef Fritzl, and Hitler and Viktor Frankl and Wittgenstein. And Ludwig von Mises. And Schubert and Wilhelm Reich. Always an uneasy blend between Eastern and … Continue reading
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Tagged Elfriede Jelenik, Elfriede Jelinek, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Habsburg Empire, Hofburg Palace, Josef Fritzl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Michael Haneke Amour, Michael Haneke Cannes, Prince Khevenhuller-Metsch, Sigmund Freud, Winter Riding School of the Hofburg
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REQUIEM FOR A GENIUS
”Form is essential to art in that it mediates content. Form is the artifacts coherence, however self antagonistic and refracted, through which every successful work separates itself from the merely existing. …what can rightly be called form in artworks fulfills … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Schuring, Constanze Weber, Eduard Ender, Edward Gibbon, Gibbon, Goethe, Heribert Rau, Leonard Cohen, Martin van Meytens, Mozart, Nietzsche, Sacheverell Sitwell, Saveria Dalla Rosa, Schiedermair, Theodor Adorno, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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