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getting here first
And the value of the fast second. Who got to America first? Refugees from Atlantis? Phoenicians piloting the children of Israel? The Chinese? The Egyptians? Perhaps the answer to the discovery of the America’s lies in the unthinkable… With such … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cyrus Gordon Semitic languages, Cyrus Gordon writer, Discovery of America, john french sloan, John Sloan Ashcan School, King Solomon Ophir voyages, Lost Tribes of Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Napoleon in Egypt, Napoleon Nile Campaign, Phoenician Votan, Phoenicians, Phonician travels to New World, Thomas Hart Benton, Votan's manuscript
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eccentric patrons
By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexander Calder, Anton Gill, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glynis Bell, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Robert Motherwell, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Hart Benton
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the wilde ones
The archetype of the socialist intellectual. The keen eyed observer, but missing a few pieces that would temper an interest in the problems of society with a less poetic palette of sweeping verse. Nonethless, there are some profound insights here … Continue reading
romney care: tax evasives of the leisure clasp
One of the key themes in our ongoing public discourse is taxes. Mitt Romney’s income tax filings and the continuing collateral damage from banker bonuses and bailouts have made this an open sore with the pain shooting to the dark … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Ben Shahn, Charles White, charles white art, irving norman, jeff wall, john steuart curry, Lloyd Blankfein, Mitt Romney 2012, Paul Krugman, Ralph Ellison, Raphael Soyer, Thomas Hart Benton, Thorstein Veblen, William Wellman
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FARMVILLE GOTH: PATRIOTS WITH PITCHFORKS
It does require a bit of inspiration to gain a full perspective on how Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” evolved from iconoclasm to icon and then off the edge into parody. Some have even asserted that ”American Gothic” ranks in importance … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bruce Thiher, Carl Van Vechten, Christopher Morley, Gertrude Stein, Gordon Parks, Grant Wood, Grant Wood American Gothic, Jan van Eyck, Janet Haven, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Melissa Gray, Mia Fineman, Paris Hilton, R. Tripp Evans, Sherwood Anderson, Sinnclair Lewis, Susan Stamberg, Terry Pitts, Thomas Hart Benton
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ENEMIES IN ARMS
In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Bouguereau, Cabanel, Cezanne, Charles Dickens, Edward Hopper, Ernst, Frank Norris, Guggenheim, Hannah Arendt, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Tinguely, Joan Miro, John Chamberlain, Manet, Mark Twain, Matisse, Max Ernst, miro, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blume, Picasso, Renoir, Thomas Hart Benton, Van Gogh
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