Living Room: A Photo Collage in Four Variations Brian Fee
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February 4, 2010
La belle et la bête, et al.
MANY HAVE PAID HOMAGE to Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film La belle et la bête—from Philip Glass’s “Cocteau Trilogy,” to Tony Kushner’s dream sequences in “Angels in America,” to Disney’s aptly titled cartoon musical version, Beauty and the Beast—while the film itself, starring Josette Day and Jean Morais, draws on many influences. Below is a gallery of [...]
November 19, 2009
A Guide to the Marx Brothers.
The other day, I was shocked to find out that most people don’t have a working knowledge as to the names of the Marx Brothers. Imagine! Seeing as the next few posts here at GB, HR. will revolve around all things Marxian, I thought it might be a fine idea to put up some sort of guide [...]
October 19, 2009
Draft Pages from Madame Bovary.
There’s not much more to say about Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary that hasn’t already been said, or that wouldn’t make me sound like the protagonist in John Cheever’s “An Educated American Woman”. But it’s always interesting to see how thoughts (and pain, and headaches, and heartaches) evolve on the handwritten page. Most of Flaubert’s draft pages may be found [...]
August 28, 2009
A Brief Pictographic History of Love.
Presented above, please find a Brief Pictographic History of Love in Occidental Civilization, the gallery’s twelve images roughly spanning the period from when the Hapsburgs began their rule of the Holy Roman Empire, to Season 5 of The Hills (c. 1450-2009 CE). The pedagogical ordering of the rows of this Brief Pictographic History: Row 1: 1450-1930 (Religion) Row 2: 1930-1950 (Film &. Suffering) [...]
July 13, 2009
Bright Plastic Coelacanths.
For some reason, at this very late hour, I’m drawn to thoughts of these Bright Plastic Coelacanths. I first saw this picture several years ago, while I was studying sculpture at RISD. (The installation took place somewhere in Japan, if memory serves, though I’ve forgotten the name of the artist.) The first real coelacanth – [...]
