Tag Archives: Oscar Wilde

whiff of evil

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Dave

…Dorian Grey and his diabolical bargain that Oscar Wilde wrote in 1890. Instead of growing old, he keeps a portrait of himself which does his ageing for him, as well as showing off all the marks of his increasing depravity. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged basil rathbone, Edgar Allan Poe, Hurd Hatfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lawford, The Picture of Dorian Gray | Leave a comment

get rid of it in the interests of the rich

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dave

Secular humanism. Atheism. Modernism, Moral relativism. All parts of liberalist ideology? We are all the same and there is no difference. Even a five year old could assert its a bald faced lie and the entire premise of multi-culturism and equality … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arkadii Piastov, arlo guthrie, Burl Ives, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Millard Lampell, Oscar Wilde, oscar wilde socialism, Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Ruth Ewans, Woody Guthrie | Leave a comment

return of the sacred

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

The Gods in art. Andre Malraux in his Metamorphosis of the Gods sought the key to humankind’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art… The return of the Sacred. Byzantium rises in jeweled gloom- the apostle pictured … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albert Camus, Andre Malraux, Andre Malraux Metamorphosis of the Gods, daniel boorstin, Donald Kuspit, Georges Didi-Huberman, Holland Cotter, Les Echecs Amoureaux, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Oscar Wilde | Leave a comment

captain dreyfus: court farcial

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Dave

…The premier, Charles Aexandre Dupuy, the foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotux, and other cabinet colleagues whom Mercier consulted, had advised against hasty action in the case: the reactions of both the French public and the German Kaiser were dangerously unpredictable. Gen. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. A. Panizzardi, Col. Henry Dreyfus Affair, Col. Jean Sandherr, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Honore Daumier, Ilan Halimi, Jean-Louis Levy, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Robert Maguire, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Tom Verlaine, Vincent Duclert historian, Yolande Jansen | Leave a comment

spy vs. spy: wilde for dreyfus

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Dave

Remembering Dreyfus. The time was la belle epoque, and the stage was France. But the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing as patriots- have remained on the political scene ever since… … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Auguste Herbin, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. Jean Sandherr, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Maurice Paleologue, Maurice Weil, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Richard Dreyfuss, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Yolande Jansen | Leave a comment

dreyfus: delusions on Secret Judah

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Dave

Manifestations of public delirium. A delusive dread of subversion turning into mass paranoia. An invisible enemy and a demonic skill in manipulating the channels of communication. The ghosts of the Dreyfus Affair are still with us, its residue a festering … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan M. Dershowitz, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Haas, Col. Henry Dreyfus Affair, Col. Jean Sandherr, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gustave Schlumberger, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Georges Picquart, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Richard Dreyfuss, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair | Leave a comment

a rising tide sinks all ships

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Dave

The velocity of money. a rising tide sinks all ships. That is, capitalism and democracy have always had an uneasy relationship. They are not partners naturally suited to one another for the most part. Something of an artificial idea; like … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, Bob Diamond Barclays, Gauss Kaspersky Lab, Georges de La Tour, Harry K. Thaw, Joe Nocera, jon corzine, joseph heath, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MF Global scandal, Oscar Wilde, Peregrine Financial Group, Russell Wasendorf Sr., Standard Chartered scandal Iran, Stanford White, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

affordable pauper

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: these are books by “the peter pauper press”. they are small (4 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ x 3/8″). they are beautifully designed and letterpress printed, often sporting illustrations by some of the best illustrators of the era. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged AIGA, Ambrose Bierce, american graphic design, art chantry, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna Bielenson, graphic design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oscar Wilde, Peter Beilenson, The Peter Pauper Press | Leave a comment

jazz age: poignancy of the brief

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dave

” This timeless moment… warm, mindless, immediate” … John Held Jr.’s moment came with the season of Coolidge prosperity, a season so warmly sunlit that few noticed the slanting rays were autumnal. The conflicts of the postwar adjustment period were … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Dana Gibson, John Held Jr., John Held Jr. The New Yorker, Life Magazine John Held Jr., Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oscar Wilde, Percy Marks, Percy Marks The Plastic Age, robert benchley, Robert Sherwood Life | Leave a comment

goncourt recollections

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Dave

…As it turned out, however, it was none of these things that rescued the Goncourts from “oblivion.” It was, rather, their Journals — the scandalous, vain, vengeful, brutally honest diaries in which the two brothers, and then Edmond alone, wrote … Continue reading →