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LIKE MOURNING COACHES WHEN THE FUNERAL IS DONE
Extravagant showmanship, a proclivity toward the taking of calculated risks, and unabashed greed- all salient features of the Venetian way of life- are epitomized in Francesco Guardi’s “Il Ridotto” , which also sums up the decadence of eighteenth-century Venice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco Ghisellini, Francesco Guardi, Giacomo Casanova, Giammaria Ortes, Jean Cocteau, John Ruskin, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Luchino Visconti, Percy Shelley, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Thmoas Mann, Warren Adelson
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ROCK HIS GYPSY SOUL: THE STORMY “CORINTHIAN”
“There’s no one more punctual than a woman one doesn’t love” ( “Kean” by Jean Paul Sartre ) From its declining fortunes Drury Lane Theatre was to be rescued, briefly, by the arrival of Edmund Kean, the most fiery and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Noble, Alan Badel, Alexandre Dumas, Antony Sher, Ben Kingsley, Byron, Catharine Savage Brosman, Charles Kean, Charles Kremble, Coleridge, Derek Jacobi, Edmund Kean, Ermette Novelli, George Clint, George Cruickshank, Graham Everett, Harold Bloom, Jane Austen, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Paul Sartre, John Keats, John Philip Kemble, John Stone, Jonathan Mulrooney, Lord Byron, Lucius Junius Booth, Percy Shelley, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Cruickshank, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Siddons, Théaulon, William Hazlitt, William Macready
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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, art chantry, Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Corot, David Phillips, Emile Zola, Fred Inglis, Gainsborough, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vermet, Horace Vernet, Joshua Reynolds, Madonna, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mark Beech, Martin Rubin, Mary Shelley, Michel Carné, Mozart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough
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UTOPIAN DREAMS & SCHEMES and IN-BETWEENS
What is Utopia and why does it attract both hope and skepticism in equal measure? In a way that appears meaningful, it is a productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive optimistic utopianism and a negative utopian pessimism. A … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Amy Boesky, Andrew Milner, Charles Fourier, Ernest Bloch, Ernst Bloch, Francis Bacon, Frederick Engels, George Ripley, Gilles Deleuze, Gordon Campbell, Herbert Marcuse, Hieronymous Bosch, James Harrington, John Humphrey Noyes, John Milton, Jonathan Berman Commune, Lou Gottleib, Margaret Fuller, Michael Simmons Huffington Post, Michel Foucault, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New harmony, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Peter Simon, Richard Wagner, Robert Appelbaum, Robert Owen, Samuel Gott, Sara Davidson, Simon Schama, Sir Thomas More, Theodor Adorno, Thomas N. Corns, Walter Benjamin
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LETTING YOUR HAIR DOWN WITH THE “HYENA IN PETTICOATS”
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797 ) was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between mankind’s present circumstances and ultimate perfection. She was truly a child of the French Revolution and saw a new age of reason … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Dworkin, Betty Friedan, Boudicca, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Christine Battersby, Cindy Chandler, Claire Clairmont, Cynthia Freeland, Edmund Burke, Eithne Johnson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman, Emma Willard, Eric Schaefer, Gail Dines, Gilbert Imlay, Gloria Allred, Greta Garbo, Henry Fuseli, Janet Todd, Jason Burke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, John Cartwright, Joseph Johnson, Kim Airs, Laura Mulvey, Linda Nochlin, Lord Byron, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Lippard, Lyndall Gordon, Mary Shelley, Megan Amberger, Nancy Burns, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, Richard Price, Robespierre, Rush Limbaugh, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B. Anthony, Susie Bright, Tom Hazlitt, Toni Bentley, William Godwin
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DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY
His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh
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DECAY, DEATH & DARING
”Fuseli’s protagonists are similarly given names that just ‘Sound’ right, his characters are equally formulaic, and it is in this disregard for narrative convention, and the moral instruction that was meant to be achieved through a coherent and legible story, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Henderson, Ann Radcliffe, Anna Sewall, Byron, Charles Dickens, Charles Robert Maturin, Dr. John Polidori, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Northanger Abbey, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Ken russell, Lord Byron, Marshall Brown, Mary Shelley, Matthew Lewis, Matthew Lewis The Monk, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, Sir Brooke Boothby, Theodore Von Holst, Thomas De Quincey, William Beckford
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