tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6491607547378428267..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: My Last Duchess?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9183414753817806952011-02-14T11:18:38.651-08:002011-02-14T11:18:38.651-08:00John Ruskin is about as good-as-you-can-get
he no...John Ruskin is about as good-as-you-can-get<br /><br />he not only said/wrote about "it" he did/produced "it"<br /><br />these artists sure knew how to get and keep their Muses.. and their cute girls... too<br /><br />there was yet another depth to the 19 th century... I think a British mag and I betcha it is en toto on the net aprappoe to "sex and authors" called<br /> The Pearl<br /><br />and far beyond 19 th Century Europe is across the waters and across the eons Japanese/Asian Shunga<br /><br />the "stuff" of Picasso and his ..compatriots... who<br />really did include everything which is forbidden into Public .... view.... <br /><br />"all art (as Picasso has it) is erotic"<br /><br />everything else (especially via them Surrealists) is either destructive or insipidEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18120127774999071532011-02-14T09:20:29.337-08:002011-02-14T09:20:29.337-08:00The prurient speculation and idle gossip concernin...The prurient speculation and idle gossip concerning Ruskin's famously unconsummated marriage to Effie Gray, and the reasons for the peculiar physical disgust that seems to have overcome him, have provided many a field day for excited "scholars".<br /><br />It appears that Ruskin's protegé the painter John Everett Millais did not share Ruskin's disgust. After using her as his model in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Millais_Order_of_Release.jpg" rel="nofollow">this painting</a>, he married her -- and, happily enough, Effie went on to produce eight children.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19151078280877880112011-02-14T06:31:21.941-08:002011-02-14T06:31:21.941-08:00"you know the Nineteenth Century.
Nothing con..."you know the Nineteenth Century.<br />Nothing connected with sex and authors is too strange to believe."<br /><br />I love Ruskin - yet, always marvel at how this story could ever be true.<br /><br />Such are the strange ways of the West,<br />doomed, as we are, to live in our heads.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.com