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It seems that all economics of poverty in the market system, whether capitalism or communism there exists a stratification of money or privilege. And within economics, particularly the Western version, charity is considered an elective, though praiseworthy act since poverty … Continue reading
nativity and counting: brand new day
In the modern era, the all too human tends to be repressed. But back then, in 1566 it was a time of ingrained, seemingly genetic aggression, envy, hatred and wanton destruction. Perhaps not that dissimilar after all. Bruegel’s Census in … Continue reading
zombie banking: deposit at your risk
Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al. warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bernie Madoff, dr. robert hare, Hannibal Lecter, jack Kevorkian, Jim Rickards, john quiggin, marinus van reymerswaele, Meredith Whitney, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, psychopathic behavior, Quentin Massys, yalman onaran
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get happy: fizzy irrational exuberance
Were basically selfish individuals with varying and unpredictable levels of empathy? Ulterior purposes. The French “fine mouche.” The yoke of feudalism was tossed aside a half a millennium ago, and there’s no stopping those middle-class values that the politicians keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, Charles Baudelaire, coca coal gnh index, coca cola happiness institute, david graeber guardian, Felix Feneon, Florine Stettheimer, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Niall Ferguson, Quentin Massys, Thorstein Veblen, tyler cowen, Walter Benjamin
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wayfaring: complicity with the wanderer
Is man a wayfarer? A wanderer between two worlds? His destiny that of an outsider, eve an outlaw to the laws of nature; man as wayfarer, restless and unable to settle and establish roots . He reaches a fork in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article
Tagged Charles de Tolnay, emil l. fackenheim, erik zafran, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, father daniel berrigan, Hieronymous Bosch, jacque combe, Jonathan Jones Guardian, joseph gaer, kathaleen reid, Mario Praz, Martin Buber, mary jane todd, peter ompir, philip Leider, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Quentin Massys, roman vishniak, sy polsky, thomas more utopia, warner wrede, Wilhelm Fraenger, william a. coventry, yakov m. rabkin
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#FLEMISH EYE: Sanctity of the Bourgeois
All that is needed to appreciate Flemish painting, Michelangelo once observed, are two eyes and an interest in facts. He was alluding to the intense realism, the extreme precision, and the illusionistic impression of light and atmosphere with which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Hours Bruges, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Linda Seidel, Michelangelo, Northern Renaissance Art, Petrus Christus, Quentin Massys, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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