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self hatred: caging the instinct into decoration
Get Back. Get back to where you once belonged. Can art exist if it falls off the precipice into a void where there is no transformational effect on the individual and little or nothing to do with what constitutes the … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, jeffrey meyers, meryle secrest, Michel Foucault, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, rachael hayward, Simon Schama, steven fine
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Sundown on the golden age
When Jan de Witt became defacto head of the Dutch republic it ushered in an era of prosperity and liberalism, for the time, that was unheard of. Dutch commerce, trade, and especially the arts developed an identity that has been … Continue reading
Golden Guilders: going dutch with jan de witt
Under Jan de Witt, the Dutch bested the great powers at both arms and commerce, arts and science. However, in a moment of panic they killed him and the Dutch Golden Age turned to lead. So much of what we … Continue reading
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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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt
Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer
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REAL MAD, SOMEWHAT BAD & A LOT OF KITSCH
Henry Fuseli’s ghostly and frightening subject-matter was a visual continuum of the Gothic novel, which developed an aesthetics of terror and horror, was occupied with dreams and the unconscious, and often looked back to the feudal world. Fuseli once said, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred de Musset, Anne-Louis Girodet, Bellenger, Charles Nodier, Donald Kuspit, Donizetti, E.H. Gombrich, Erich Fromm, Ernst Gombrich, Etienne-Jean Georget, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Holderlin, Gérard de Nerval, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Jacques-Louis David, John Milton, John Ruskin, Louis Sass, Marquis de Sade, Michel Foucault, Nikolaus Lenau, Rembrandt, Robert Schumann, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Simon Schama, Soren Kierkegaard, Suzi Gablik, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Victor Hugo, William Blake
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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt
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THE DODGY MASTER: PSST… ITS EROTIC ABSOLUTISM
“Besides foreshadowing Warhol, Rubens amounted to the Walt Disney of his day—a hardworking industrialist of standardized pleasures. He not only ran his studio as a virtual assembly line; he oversaw the mass production of prints, based on his paintings, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambroglio di Spinola, Andy Warhol, Archduchess Isabella, Benvenuto Cellini, Bologna, Caravaggio, Counter Reformation, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Flemish painting, Giovanni da Bologna, Helena Fourment Rubens, Inigo Jones, Justus Lipsius, Macchiavelli, Margaret D. Carroll, Mary D. Garrard, Norma Broude, Olivares, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Philip Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Seneca, Simon Schama, Walt Disney
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