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Showing posts with label goethe. Show all posts
5 Sept 2024

Heathen, Hedonistic, and Horny: Notes on Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) - Part 2: Propositions 121-240

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Joan Mitchell: Les Bluets (1973)  Oil on canvas (281 x 580 cm) [f]     NB: part one of this post (reflecting on selected propositions from ...
29 Jun 2024

Meine Rosen

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Meine Rosen (SA / 2024)     I.    As is well known, Zarathustra often speaks cryptically.   Take the following sentence, for example, spoke...
4 Feb 2024

Reflections on the Sorcerer's Apprentice and the Villainy of Things

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  Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940)     I.    Goethe's Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is a ballad...
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3 Dec 2022

From Too Many Notes to Silence

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Figure 1: Joseph II / Figure 2: Mozart / Figure 3: John Cage                                I.   Following the premier of Entführung aus d...
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29 Sept 2022

Life in Vein (With Reference to D. H. Lawrence's Undying Man)

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Homunculus created by alchemy  (from a 19th-century engraving for Goethe's Faust Pt. II)     I.    Some readers may recall a post from M...
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28 Aug 2018

On Painting Ceilings

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Kazimir Malevich   Suprematist Composition: White on White  (1918)   Oil on canvas (79.5 x 79.5 cm) I. The Sistine Chapel ceili...
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13 Jun 2018

The Ballerina is Not a Girl Dancing

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In a late prose piece, Mallarmé makes the provocative claim that "the ballerina is not a girl dancing ". Indeed, according...
21 Mar 2017

D. H. Lawrence and the Grand Perverts

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Drawing of D. H. Lawrence by David Levine (1968) According to D. H. Lawrence, in a letter written to Aldous Huxley, behind all ...
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