Monthly Archives: March 2010

”PLEASE LET ME JAZZ HER”

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Dave

Provencal is the loving tongue.Some aspects of the scene may seem vaguely familiar; scores of long haired young men roaming the country with stringed instruments under their arms, singing songs against authority and proclaiming liberty in its many facets. Urbane, … Continue reading →

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DEPARTMENT OF ABERRATIONS

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Dave

French artist Jean Dubuffet( 1901-1985) said that he was not a revolutionary but a permanent subversive. His work. however, coincided with attempts in other fields to dispute the accepted values of Western culture.The ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss had convincingly shown that … Continue reading →

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THE PERMANENT SUBVERSIVE

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Dave

To some Jean Buffet had the greatest influence on modern art since Picasso.” My art,” Dubuffet had said, ”is an attempt to bring all disparaged values into the limelight.”  In the 1950′s Dubuffet’s fascination with textures absorbed him completely; the … Continue reading →

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SAVAGERY SMOTHERED IN LOVE

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Dave

“Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.” — Jean Dubuffet, 1951.Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ). A visionary of modern anti-culture. He had a private Art Brut museum, where the world’s largest … Continue reading →

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SOME THINGS MONEY CAN’T BUY

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Dave

In a sense it was an ideology of corporatism. Horatio Alger was attributed a  philosophy which was whittled down to its commonest denominator in mass media. Success manuals touted bourgeoisie values: hard work, frugality, loyalty to employers. If a man … Continue reading →

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RAGGED, TATTERED & PLUCK OUT OF LUCK

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Dave

Rejection as a virtue. Horatio Alger. His fable of the noble orphan who found a rich Daddy appealed to boys of all ages. The question is how did it ever get mixed up with the American myth of success? There … Continue reading →

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WHITER SHADES OF PALE

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Dave

“Ya know, ya know I was wondering if. If you could keep on because…the force, it’s got a lot of power. It makes me feel like…..it makes me feel like…..WOOO! [1st Verse] Lovely Is The Feelin’ Now Fever, Temperatures Risin’ … Continue reading →

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THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Dave

In Marcel Proust’s ”Remembrance of Things Past”, there is a strong sense of familiarity making the narrator lose the sense of ecstasy he felt when the Faubourg was out of reach; that impenetrable social enclave on the right bank of … Continue reading →

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FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Dave

Almost all of Marcel Proust’s novel ”Remembrance of Things Past” takes place in Paris. The presence of the city saturates the novel the way moisture saturates the air and determines its atmospheric pressure. There is likely no other city as … Continue reading →

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GODLESS GOLDEN RULE

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Dave

Marcel Proust’s Paris aristocracy: perpetually engaged for dinner, decorative, idle and dangerous for social climbers. In Proust’s ”Remembrance of Things Past” , what lent the aristocrats of the Faubourg Saint-Germain their luster was precisely their ”famous and poetic” names , … Continue reading →

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