Tag Archives: The marquis de Sade

foiled hopes

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading →

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transmit and vectorize the ambivalent perception

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Dave

Call it an absence of the realist impulse. With Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Garden of Eden, we see a sense of visual chaos that is all the more striking given our inability to comprehend a central theme. The tension, though … Continue reading →

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NO EASY HOPE & NO SIMPLE CONSOLATION

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Dave

”It was just before leaving Rome that Hawthorne conceived the idea of a romance in which the “Faun” of Praxiteles should come to life, and play a characteristic part in the modern world; the catastrophe naturally resulting from his coming … Continue reading →

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