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the attraction of youth
There is, one can imagine very few among us that are attracted to creepy, old wrinkled flesh. What is the attraction of youth. The quest for the younger mate. Is attraction to beauty built into our psychological makeup? That volatile … Continue reading
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PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed
Pablo Picasso found himself in Paris during World War II. Stranded……. Overall, reading through Matisse’s correspondence with Camoin in La Revue de l’Art (12, 1971) makes me suspect that Matisse’s behavior during Vichy had little to do directly with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Aristide Maillol, Carl Goldstein, Charles Camoin, Dave Douglas, Dave Douglas Duncan, Demetrios Galanis, Dina Vierny, Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Ernst Junger, Florence Gould, Frederic Spotts, Georges Duthuit, Gerhard Heller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Leonard Cohen, Louis Aragon, Marcel Jouhandeau, Marie-Louise Bousquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Max Jacob, Megan Meighan, Michele C. Cone, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Fournier, Ramon Fernandez, Richard Eder, Riva Castleman, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Rosalind Krauss, Sacha Guitry, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Spott
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SANTA CLAUS EXCHANGE THEORY: No to Ho! Will The Circle be Unbroken?
Sexist Christmas advertising,and other rituals of discontent. why should Christmas be any different than the rest of the year? There is no holiday that seems to invoke the polarity and contradictory impulses that pits theological purity and the reality of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Betty Friedan, C.S. Lewis, Chloe Angyal, Dean Martin, Derrida, Dr. Devin Brown, Frank Loesser, Havelock Ellis, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Jean Genet, John Bingham, Judith Butler, Kate Harding, La Senza Cup Size Choir, Lena McQuade, Leslie Feinberg, Marie Bonaparte, Maya Brown, Nietzsche, Niki de Saint Phalle, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf
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TAROT GARDEN: Daddy & Arcanes of the Dark Psyche
Not a typical garden….. at least an Eden, chaotic and radical whose gatekeeper was the intuitive feminine whose charged powers of women were absorbed with the magical and spiritual power of objects. Niki De Saint Phalle kept delving deep into … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, Antonio Gaudi, Betty Friedan, Douglas Eby, Dr. Stephen Diamond, Jasper Johns, Jean Tinguely, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kyla McDonald, Marella Agnelli, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg, Simone de Beauvoir, Tarot Garden
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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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A PIOUS SINNER AS NATIONAL INSTITUTION
In the early 1960’s, Chateaubriand received a tribute that demonstrates in its very extravagance, his enduring power. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre visited Saint-Malo on one of their many excursions. They liked the town, but Chateaubriand’s tomb, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Link, Charles Mackay, Chateaubriand, Claudia Moscovici, Counter-Enlightenment, Dostoevsky, Duc d'Enghien, French Literature, Girodet, Heinrich Heine, Jean Paul Sartre, Napoleon Bonaparte, Romantic literature, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, Simone de Beauvoir
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