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george stubbs tears: putting a good face upon trade
None of the members attracted as much public attention as Sir Anthony Carlisle, the Academy’s professor of anatomy from 1808-1824. A police guard was called out to restrain the crowds whenever Sir Anthony lectured; but what stirred the mob was not so much the academic content of the lectures as the auxiliary matter with which he diversified them. Often, for instance, he would have human remains handed round on dinner plates, to better make his point; and for a time he illustrated the operation of the muscular system with the help of eight private soldiers of the Foot Guards who exercised stark naked on the lecture platform.
via george stubbs tears: putting a good face upon trade | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
Willem de Kooning Still Dazzles | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
In 1926, Willem de Kooning, a penniless, 22-year-old commercial artist from the Netherlands, stowed away on a freighter bound for America. He had no papers and spoke no English.
via Willem de Kooning Still Dazzles | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine.
A History Of Violence Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge
What may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history is that violence has gone down, by dramatic degrees, and in many dimensions all over the world and in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, human sacrifice, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals.
via A History Of Violence Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge.
About | Madame Pickwick Art Blog
About
Madame Pickwick Art Blog is an art and media blog of the unexpected. The purpose is to entertain, inform and amuse (or bemuse) on diverse subject matter that is essentially arts related. The blog hopes to encourage the creative side of our readers.
The Madame Pickwick approach has been that a society that is creative constitutes the basis for a non-aggresive, just and economically viable civilization. Hope you enjoy!
Dave
Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza | Past Imperfect
There is a story, regrettably apocryphal, about Napoleon and the Great Pyramid. When Bonaparte visited Giza during his Nile expedition of 1798 (it goes), he determined to spend a night alone inside the King’s Chamber, the granite-lined vault that lies precisely in the center of the pyramid.
Canadian War Museum
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge unveiled the painting The Canadians Opposite Lens by celebrated artist Augustus John 1878–1961.
The impressive painting, 12 metres 40 feet wide and 3.7 metres 12 feet high, is one of the key works originally commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook, the founder of the Canadian War Memorials Fund. The work is also the last of these original commissions to return to Canada.
via Canadian War Museum.
A look at Steve Jobs’s life and times. R.I.P.
Steve Jobs will be remembered as a computer visionary but also as a maverick—a sometimes cantankerous one—who pursued a doggedly independent path for Apple that could make it frustrating for partners to work with but allowed it to produce unique products.
via A look at Steve Jobs’s life and times | Computers | Macworld
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angels: flying against the current of progress | Madame Pickwick Art Blog
angels: flying against the current of progress | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
…So I, when vanished from man’s memory
Deep in some dark and sombre chest I lie,
An empty flagon they have cast aside,
Broken and soiled, the dust upon my pride,
Will be your shroud, beloved pestilence!
The witness of your might and virulence,
Sweet poison mixed by angels; bitter cup
Of life and death my heart has drunken up! ( Baudelaire, The Flask )
Frank Zappa, his groupies and me | Music | The Guardian
Frank Zappa, his groupies and me
She was a strait-laced English typist. He was a sexually incontinent rock innovator. So why on earth did Pauline Butcher become Frank Zappa’s secretary?
After that, Zappa, shoved the bag of blood back into Raven’s hand, saying: “You must leave now.” Raven did. Immediately exhorted by the many witnesses to call the police, Zappa refused. Why? “Because if I call the police, the police will arrest him and he’ll go to jail and no one deserves to go to jail.”
via Frank Zappa, his groupies and me | Music | The Guardian.
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