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utopia: loitering in Icaria
Not content with the world as it is, people have always tried to imagine a world as it might become. it seems that old man time though has served to darken utopian visions in more ways than one… From the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Fourier, Etienne Cabet, Francis Bacon, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morelly, Rene Chateaubriand, Sigmund Freud, The Age of Reason, Tommaso Campanella, Utopian Socialists
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to be equals among equals
Tangled up in the tri-color. Girodet’s portrait of Belley is still a controversial painting whose implications remain pertinent and relevant, embroiled as we are in the same morass that followed the French Revolution. Girodet was the first artist to cross … Continue reading
Napoleon and the revolt agianst togetherness
October 1810. The book was censored and then it was banned. So many representations and so much insistence overtaxed his patience. In order to give a definite answer to the petitioners, he took the book up again and lost his … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine-Jean Gros, Chateaubriand, colnaghi, francois gerard, Jean Jacques Rousseau, joseph chinard, madame recamier, Maximilien Robespierre, mirabeau, mme de Stael, Mme Germaine de Stael, Montesquieu, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, prince august of prussia, Rene Chateaubriand, Rene Magritte, rene magritte madame recamier de david, Robespierre
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napoleon: grand alliance of a different kind
The greatest movie never made. That’s actually the title of a new book of images from Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon, or rather the director’s preparations for an ill-fated film on the French emperor. The three hour epic about the life of … Continue reading
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Tagged alex godfrey, Alison Castle, Chateaubriand, Chris Knight National Post, felix markham, francois pascal simon gerard, Jacques Necker, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mme Germaine de Stael, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, prince augustus of prussia, Raul Hilberg, Rene Chateaubriand, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg
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BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all
Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Arielle Dombasle, Arthur Miller, Bernard-Henry Levy, Byron, Charles Dickens, Corot, David Goldblatt, David Grigg, E.J. Trelawny, Edward Steichen, F.W. Murnau, Flaubert, Fred Inglis, Frederic Chopin, Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Henri Bernard-Levy, James Meek, John Keats, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joseph Severn, Lara Feigel, Leo Tolstoy, Lord Byron, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rene Chateaubriand, Richard Wagner, Ron Mueck, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Medwin, Victor Hugo
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THE WORLD IS NOT ABSURD
Increasingly since the Romantics, such as Chateubriand, the writer in France has presented that double image of timeless originator and commentator on the actual that French culture regards as the completeness of literary existence. The writer who came closest to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Camus, French Literature, French Philosophy, Jean Paul Sartre, Rene Chateaubriand, The Just Assasins Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Camus, The Plague Camus, The Rebel Camus, The Stranger Camus
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