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revolution: what is to be done?
…Not only friends, of course, but also family must be rejected by the ascetic revolutionary. Existing family relations, and the ties binding an individual to them, must be ruthlessly broken. As Hegel pointed out, it was an early revolutionary, Christ, … Continue reading
terror: therapeutic or not
…Of course, certain trends of modern society and certain currents of modern thought have contributed more directly than others to shaping the patterns of modern terrorism. Frantz Fanon’s concept of therapeutic violence- aggravated by Sartre’s embroideries on the theme, as … Continue reading
the hindsight saga
It was one of Lenin’s more inspired insights that history always has the capacity to surprise. He was thinking mainly of political revolution, for as a revolutionary he had to be optimistic and hopeful in the darkest times in order … Continue reading
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Tagged Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, bill haley and the comets, Christianity origins, chuck berry, Elvis Presley, French Revolution, Hans Janssen microscopes, Jesus The Marriage at Cana, Lenin Communist Manifesto, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marten de Vos painter, Martha Rosler, Robespierre, The vatican History, Zaccharias Janssen
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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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GOLDEN GEESE IN THE CUCKOO’S NEST
The scope and character of the pensions bourgeoises – renamed maisons de santé early in the Revolution – changed dramatically following the passage of the Law of Suspects in September 1793. This legislation called for the creation of the Revolutionary … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourbon Restoration, Bradley S. Reichek, Buchner Danton, Charlotte Corday, Chris Moore, Comte de Saint-Aulaire, Dr. Jacques Belhomme, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Duchesse d'Orleans, French Revolution, James Gillray, Jean Baptiste Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Raynault, Jean-Baptiste Rayneaud, Jean-Baptiste Regneault, Jean-Paul Marat, Joseph Ignace Guillotin, Joseph Wright, Lady Emma Hamilton, Marcus Stone, Marquis de Sade, marsden French Revolution, Mia Farrow, Mlle Mezeray, Naomi Campbell, Nelson Mandela, Nick Pisa, Philippe Egalite, Richard Basehart, Robert Carlyle, Robert Carlyle Byrd, Robespierre, Silvio Berlusconi, Talleyrand, Thomas Rowlandson, Vanessa Allen
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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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AN EMPHASIS ON MORAL AMBIGUITY
Eugene Delacroix characterized Jacques Louis David as the founding father of the modern school of art. His challenging of established aesthetic vision, bold experiments in subject and style, and at the end of his career, mythological compositions that explore complex … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles-Michel Trudaine, David, Eugene Delacroix, French Painting, Jacques-Louis David, Maximilien Robespierre, Napoleon Bonaparte, Robespierre, The Oath of the Horatii, The Sabines, Walter Benjamin
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PAINTING ON THIN ICE
During the century that followed Jacques Louis David’s death, three forces struggled for position in French art; classicism, romanticism, and realism. But their initial struggle took place in the art of David. His heroic style, suppressing passion beneath a hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlotte Corday, Condorcet, French Revolution, Jacobin Terror, Jacques-Louis David, Jean jaques Rousseau, Louis XVI, Marquis de Condorcet, Maximilien Robespierre, Napoleon Bonaparte, Oath of the Horatii, Poussin, Robespierre
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COGNITIVE ART & IDEAS as a PRODUCT
”Innovate as a last resort” was a famous quote from Charles Eames, and considering the knack of innovation of Charles( 1907-78) and wife Ray Eames ( 1912-88), seems almost counter intuitive and against the grain of their virtuosity.To them, everyday … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Eames, Concordet, Eames Demetrios, Eames Design, Emile Durkheim, Herman Miller, James Joyce, Jean jaques Rousseau, John Berry, Mary Blair, Max Weber, Michael Neault, Mies van der Rohe, Ray Eames, Rene Descartes, Robespierre, Schonberg, Thomas Watson, Voltaire, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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