The Emergent Secular Modern Man :: Part VI
In this sense Vincent Van Gogh can be seen as parallel to the Psychological penetrations of Nietzsche, who will effect Sigmund Freud so profoundly. As Vincent's portrayal of a powerfully deep Essence;...
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In one of Vincent Van Gogh's sermons of 1876 he said, " Sorrow is better than Joy...for by the sadness of the contenance, the heart is made better. Our Nature is sorrowful...
View ArticleThe Emergent Secular Modern Man : part VIII
On the topic of Decadence in the Fine Arts; we find at the end of the nineteenth century and after one hundred years of the Industrial Revolution; a sociological conflagration of bizarre theories...
View ArticleThe Emergent Secular Modern Man : part IX
Painting remains the highest "third eye" communicator as it has the unique position to utter directness of experience as molded through the human faculties of Reason, Identity, Morals, Drives,...
View ArticleThe Emergent Secular Modern Man : part X
Decadents, transgressors, and outsiders of society...each of the three painters Van Gogh, Picasso, and Klimt; turned there personal lives into experimental chambers wholly divested from social norms...
View ArticleEmmergent Secular Modern Man : XI
The context around Fritz Nietzsche's first book; "The Birth of Tragedy" of 1872, is not generally known, and at the same time is a highly significant moment in the birth of MODERNISM...
View ArticleHow Central IS/WAS FRITZ NIETZSCHE .
Nietzsche's interrogation of the processes of the Mind begins with a lightning strike on the stone facade of Greek Sculpture and of writings after the first Philosophers. Yet what Nietzsche...
View ArticleThe POST-MODERN ? :: Techno-World, beyond Language is STILL MODERN : PART ONE
"The MODERN WORLD" : a phrase of the Art World that suggests transformation as mankind comes to grips with the reality that 'all' we perceive IS continuously growing and evolving. The radical...
View ArticleHow Central IS/WAS FRITZ NIETZSCHE PART TWO
NIETZSCHE :: the Adolescent associated with the implications of this utterly NOBLE character are inherent in the "Project" he spent his life attempting to construct. NIETZSCHE believed in stopping WAR...
View ArticleHow Central IS/WAS FRITZ NIETZSCHE PART THREE
The generations that lived thru the blood baths of Napoleon's rise to power and devastating campaigning of death for over a decade ignited the MODERN AGE almost as much as the inventions of the...
View ArticleS Y M B O L I S M :: As MODERN MOVEMENT
Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin's discontent with the spiritual ills of Western Civilization was part of a sentiment widely shared at the end of the nineteenth century. Reflecting an intellectual...
View ArticleLujo Brentano
Tocqueville worried about the "tyranny of the majority" looming over democratic cultures. Carlyle wrote a pamphlet "Shooting Niagara, and After?" Carlyle found himself predictably more depressed than...
View ArticleLujo Brentano ... con.t
LUJO BRENTANO looked to study the problems in the most intensified Capitalist Exploited Industrial city in the then world, London. His solution would lean to a strong independent trade unionism. Back...
View ArticleMODERN (ISM)
A cultural transformation is not like the transformation of an individual. Yet in the MODERN AGE both the transformations of civilizations ; as emmerging foremost in Europe and then the United States...
View ArticlePHAETON or the MODERN NOVEL ( Part I)
"CONSCIENCE" is the profound floor of the Modern Age of : Democracy, Libertie', Freewill, and the conceptions of the Global Equalite' of Mankind. Or, possibly in a word; IDEALISM. Out of...
View ArticlePHAETON or The MODERN NOVEL (Part II)
This includes looking at ourselves. Victor HUGO's characteristic detail, the traits related to time and place. A new emphasis upon the unique, the novel, the particular, and that which is historically...
View ArticleFrom the Apprehension of the SUBLIME : the Art of the PICTURESQUE : the ROMANTIC
Somewhere out of the 1700's begins MODERN ART. There are KEY individual Artists; Artist's taking direction and moving the agenda of the painter onto'MOVEMENT' ; like quantum leaps...
View ArticleSHAKESPEARE's TEMPEST :: the Age of Concent ::
It's the beginning of the 1600's and the new kind of GENIUS from ELISABETH I 's Court; William Shakespeare has composed yet another stunning work for which highly educated people...
View ArticleSHAKESPEARE'S TEMPEST :: the Age of Concent :: part II
As the film "FORBIDDEN PLANET" offers not just a warning about the dangers of nuclear technology, but a more specific yet previously unrecognized allegorical representation of the physicist...
View ArticleHow Central IS/WAS FRITZ NIETZSCHE part FOUR
Nietzsche lost his father young, he was five years old. Thus Fritz grew up like the poet Percy SHELLEY surrounded by women - sisters, mother, grandmother, and maiden aunts. Antecedents to a trend of...
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