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Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind

Chinese Web-based Matriarchal Romances

Jin Feng’s Romancing the Internet is a fascinating book about an art form most of us are unfamiliar with: internet-based Chinese romance novels. (Review…

• Chinese Internet Literature
• May 18, 2016
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Ziggy Stardust

Chuck Conelly's David Bowie

 

When I photographed the young man in today’s featured image I immediately thought of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, although by that time…

• Art
• May 17, 2016
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Portraits of Young Men

· Thomas Gainsborough's Boy in Blue ·

I learned that in your email the featured photo does not automatically show – it only shows if you go to the…

• Art
• May 16, 2016
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The Aftermath

The lingering effects of war

Today is the last day to introduce a montage for a movement of Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man –  I chose Now that…

• Art, Politics
• May 15, 2016
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Sacrificial Lamb or Sheep for Slaughter?

The Armed Man/Agnus Dei

I remember the collective gasp of students in my social psychology class when they saw a movie about gender differences – often assumed…

• Art, Politics
• May 14, 2016
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We’ll never know

The Armed Man/Charge!

“Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet!” John Dryden, famous man of letters at the end of the 17th century, is…

• Art, Choral Music, Literature
• May 13, 2016
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Firestorm

The Armed Man/Angry Flames & Torches

Freud wrote in Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), “The present cultural state of America would give us a good opportunity for studying the damage…

• Art, Politics
• May 12, 2016
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Protect us from Bloody Men

The Armed Man/ Jewish Prayer from the Psalms

Some of the first movements of Jenkins’ The Armed Man are a Muslim call to prayer, the Christian Kyrie Eleison and a Jewish…

• Holocaust Memorials
• May 11, 2016
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867 – 1945)

The Armed Man/Kyrie Eleison

The third movement of Jenkins’ The Armed Man is called Kyrie Eleison (Lord, have Mercy on us) – music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BfirqTqm8.  In response to this…

• Art, Politics
• May 10, 2016
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The Armed Man

Karl Jenkins' Mass for Peace

Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man – a mass for peace was commissioned by UK Royal Armories Museum in 1999, and dedicated  to…

• Choral Music
• May 9, 2016
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