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Monet’s and Loti’s Japanese Spaces

January 13, 2016 by William Eaton

Creating a Contemplation Space for Artistic Creation Pierre Loti’s Essays on Japanese Temple Art as a Key to Claude Monet’s Water Garden   By Richard M. Berrong   Though there is no evidence that Claude Monet and French novelist Pierre Loti ever met, these almost exact contemporaries developed similarly Impressionist styles.[1] They also, and probably not coincidentally, shared an interest in Japanese art, to the extent that they both incorporated it in significant ways into their homes. Loti’s two essays […]

Categories: Article • Tags: France, garden, Impressionism, Japan, Monet, nineteenth century, Pierre Loti

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Thucydides, Herbert, History, Kerry

January 5, 2016 by William Eaton

Here Is Why the Classics   Zbigniew Herbert’s poem “Dlaczego klasycy” (Why the Classics) has called out to me for a long while, as did W.B. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” until I wrote about it. And so I am writing about Herbert’s poem. It gives its history lesson by pulling the reader into the here and now. Yeats instructs by displaying for the reader Yeats’s golden perch outside history. Herbert plants his and the reader’s feet in history, concluding (in […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Edward Snowden, History, humility, John Kerry, poetry, Thucydides, Zbigniew Herbert

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Facebook Critical Distance Reading

December 31, 2015 by William Eaton

Happiness courts us in her best array? An old friend, 70, after a perfectly successful career as a curator of nineteenth-century sculpture, has been reborn as a Facebook post-er. So many good posts, often several in a day, sometimes featuring photos she has taken, sometimes bits from the news, the Web. She is French, lives in Paris, and while in past decades I have, from New York, listened to French radio and read Le monde, now, for the first time, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous, critical distance, Facebook, Frederic Jameson, Holocaust, lightning, postmodernism, Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare

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Magritte, L'Oasis (The Oasis), 1925-1927

Woolf, Eliot, Global Warming, Christmas

December 23, 2015 by William Eaton

Let the broken glass and the china lie out on the lawn and be tangled over with grass and wild berries.   Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: climate change, global warming, God, Magritte, religion, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf

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The Greatest Movies of All Time

December 15, 2015 by William Eaton

The films touched upon here and below are: The Third Man, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Farewell My Concubine [English title], Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, or The Bicycle Thief), L’Amant (The Lover), Touki Bouki, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), Anna Karenina (1935 version), Un air de famille (Family Resemblances), Carol, Youth, Orson Welles : Autopsie d’une légende, Strangers on a Train, The American Friend, Eaux Profondes, Plein Soleil (Purple Noon), The Leningrad Cowboys, Festen, Satyajit Ray’s […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: Bob Fosse, Dr. Caligari, Farewell My Concubine, Jaoui et Bacri, Lawrence of Arabia, Mao, movies, Paolo Sorrentino, The Third Man, Virginia Woolf, Woody Allen

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Solzhenitsyn, War Horse, Lotus Seed—Tag

December 14, 2015 by William Eaton

  The typical question regarding a book, any book, is, “What’s it about?” Perhaps an equally important question is: “How does this author tell the story?” My sophomore year of high school, I had to read a book. The class was World Civilization; the book was One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The curious thing is, I loved it. Against all odds, one Sunday afternoon, this book captured my attention, word for word. I consider […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: children's books, fiction, graffiti, lotus, Solzhenitsyn, War Horse

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Class Warfare Poverty Death

December 1, 2015 by William Eaton

Out of the hundred million people living in Soviet Russia, we should be able get 90 million behind us. The others, there’s no talking with them, they have to be annihilated. — Bolshevik leader Grigory Zinoviev, September 1918   Results. Approximately 245 000 deaths in the United States in [the year] 2000 were attributable to low education, 176 000 to racial segregation, 162 000 to low social support, 133 000 to individual-level poverty, 119 000 to income inequality, and 39 000 to area-level poverty. — Sandro […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Bolsheviks, capitalism, death, disease, exploitation, hunger, immigration, minimum wage, poverty, Russia, Soviet Union

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Madeline, Imperfection, Love, and Loss

November 25, 2015 by William Eaton

In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. In two straight lines they broke their bread and brushed their teeth and went to bed. Opening lines of Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans     So begins Madeline, the classic work of Ludwig Bemelmans. For the unfamiliar, Madeline is the story of a little girl, an orphan, who lives in an old house in Paris, with eleven other girls. Miss Clavel, […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: children's books, illustration

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MORANDI, RELATIONSHIPS, FASCISM, STILL LIFE

November 23, 2015 by William Eaton

  Living with the objects, they became his family, his neighbors, his friends. — Janet Abramowicz, former assistant to Morandi You don’t have to paint a figure to express human feelings. — Robert Motherwell [1]   (1) For what, in the past year, have been revealed to be psychological reasons, I have long been drawn to the still lifes of the twentieth-century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi, one of the great still-life painters, etchers, and watercolorists. There is a dominant interpretation […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: families, fascism, Italy, Morandi, painting, relationships, Still Life

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