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Tag Archives: Theodore Gericault
the have-nots : not dark yet
Not sure the validity of all the figures here; as Jack Welch pointed out in the government job figures, there is always some jigging and jiving that can be teased out of the data; manipulation of numbers is a combination … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Capex decision making process, Georges Seurat, Hannah Arendt, Henry David Thoreau, Hippolyte Paul Delaroche, Jack Welch GE, John Maynard Keynes, Martin Gilens, Mitt Romney 2012, Nick Hanauer, Paul Delaroche, Richard Freeman Harvard, Robert Frank Cornell Economics, Theodore Gericault, Tom Keene Bloomberg, war on poverty
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it was just a piece of paper
Like a good neighbor? And so ends the peace process. Hey, it was only a scrap of paper ad worth about as much. This could get very ugly. In fact, the entire land for peace charade was a scandal from … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Camp David Accords Egypt Israel, Camp David Peace Accords, gericault raft of the medusa, gush katif, Hamdeen Sabbahi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Geula Cohen, Mohamed Gadallah, Mohamed Morsy, Mohammed Morsi, Rabbi Ariel, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Theodore Gericault, thomas friedman, thomas friedman new york times, Yamit expulsion
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down the slippery slope of the golan
Well, he was supposed to be the savior of Canada. They, the liberal party dragged him out of Harvard and basically said it would be cake-walk to 24 Sussex Drive, a formality, get inside to Ignatieff’s ego and off they … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adad Hannah, Bashar Al Assad, Celeste Holm, ezra levant, gericault raft of the medusa, Golan Heights border violation, Haim Waxman, John Wayne Cast a Giant Shadow, Kate Middleton, Kate Middleton field hockey, Kirk Douglas Cast a Giant Shadow, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Sondheim, Syrian Civil War, Theodore Gericault, Thorstein Veblen, Vladimir Putin
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sages of the stoop and curb
In New York, people of all sorts freely mix with each other; but only slightly do they thaw and melt into a common pool of humanity. Edward Adler: Notes From a Dark Street. 1962. ….Martyrdom and suffering recounted in some … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Adad Hannah, Allen Ginsberg, Dante Inferno, Edward Adler, Edward Adler writer, gericault raft of the medusa, Henry Fielding, James Joyce, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Saul Bellow, Theodore Gericault, William Dafoe
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prodigal children aware of time
To trust, to put faith into the emotional life. To unencumber oneself of the layers of reason and logic, the common sense of classicism that had dominated art to that point. Romantic visions, but with a classical foundation. It added … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Diego Velazquez, Francisco Goya, Girodet, Jacques-Louis David, las meninas velazquez, Michel Foucault, sylvain bellenger, Theodore Gericault
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collapsing the geometric order
The search for emotional impact. Classicism and romanticism are only tenuously compatible. Like Cain and Abel, its a contrapuntal piece of music, that if played often enough, like Glenn Gould with Bach, can create some some odd exposures to the … Continue reading
exit strategy: swap and shop
Complex identities and conflicting and conflicted identities struggling with the burden of cynicism. Its hard to find the spiritual in profane times. But lets not work to hard at it.Dense and dark, the lyrical and the epic; the brooding and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Chaim Soutine, Edmund White, Edward Said, gilad schalit, gilad shalit, hadrien laroche, Jean Genet, Martin Buber, martin kramer, meir margalit, milly heyd, Paul Klee, rembrandt the jewish bride, Theodore Gericault, Walter Benjamin
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