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ghosts of bordeaux: deceptions and perceptions
A seventy-seven year old Francisco Goya left Spain for France in 1823; he still held his position as first painter to the court, but even so, with the final triumph of Ferdinand, he had gone into seclusion. Goya saw Spain … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Albert Camus, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Fred Licht, Goya Bordeaux period, Jesse Bering, Philip Hofer, Reva Wolf, Richard Dorment, Sarah Symmons, Sigmund Freud, Victor Hugo
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rothschild & buber: real life is encounters with the 133 year bond
its an incongruous combination that two men so patently different should somehow be connected inextricably to the Jewish people and a jewish homeland. On the one hand, Baron Edmond de Rothschild feared zionism, had an anathema for democracy, and became, … Continue reading
IDOL GOSSIP: FEED YOUR SLEEPLESS HEAD
G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most important spiritual figures of the 20th century. Controversial and cloaked in mystery, his mythology is as rich as it is questionable. He claimed to have traveled from his native Armenia to the Far … Continue reading
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BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all
Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading
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MUSIC & MADNESS: AN IMP OF A LIBRETTO
A cursed libretto is not your typical campfire ghost story.Its not a joking anecdote to be easily dismissed either. Its one helluva an imp who has displayed wildly inconsistent behavior over the years. The specific association of music and madness … Continue reading
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DR. JEKYLL & MR. GARGOYLE : AUGMENTED REALITY
… they only come out a night. Augmented reality has to be considered as part of the future of humankind. There are many ways for us to add data to our lives beyond the what is there physically.This could be … Continue reading
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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS
“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading
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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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LITTLE ORPHEUS
“She was, arguably, the most famous actress of the 19th century. Not the most beautiful or even the most talented, but Sarah Bernhardt (nicknamed “Sarah Barnum”), knew how to cultivate her stardom. She worked like a pack horse, her French … Continue reading
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