Tag Archives: Alfred Jarry

secretaries of state

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Dave

The Society of the Spectacle. Pseudo events. The event becomes at best, an entertaining adjunct to the advertising and fundraising. The event is depersonalized and used to move product; stripped of its subjective meaning, the message becomes tailored to stimulate … Continue reading →

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A toast to dorian gray

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dave

Is our post-modern condition characterized by an instilling of youthfulness into an ancient world. A rejuvenation of creaky old bones. Baudelaire wrote of youth as a sort of priesthood, at least according to the young. Youth is a fetish, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Arthur Rimbaud, Brad Pitt, Cary Grant, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Howard Hawks, Marilyn Monroe, Oscar Wilde, Paul Gauguin, Richard Halpern | Leave a comment

if our memory serves us well

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Dave

The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Edward Bernays, G. Stanley Hall, Goethe Sorrows of Young Werther, James Dean, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Michael Balint, Michael Moore, Mike Kelley, paul mccarthy art | Leave a comment

forever young

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

To stay forever young. To defy aging. to somehow cheat the odds and glorify in a kind of infantilism; a taunting provocative sort of dissent, like children peeing on the living room carpet. We are definitely in a post-art age … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, John Heartfield, John Lennon Walls and Bridges, Lynn Stern, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, paul mccarthy, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

pataphysics of dead people: recycling the vendors

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Dave

Advertising does really define our world. In the Western culture of entertainment, advertising assumes the role of both structure and content.We can fake our rage against the machine, but are constantly putting our paws in the cookie jar. The focus … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Caravaggio, catherine gudis, craig baldwin, French Situationist, Guy Debord, Herman Hesse, mark dery, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Ralph Nader, Ron English, ronald wayne, Steve Jobs, Theodore Roszak | Leave a comment

king for a day: take a pass on the cake

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Dave

All the king’s men and women. Indeterminancy and inevitability, fortuity and fate.Sacred geometry and secret recipes. The chance of being king. Or is it chance? The chance of being king is charged with multiple and contradictory associations among of which … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Aristotle, Christopher Hitchens, cosmati floor, cosmati pavement, Douglas Kellner, Guy Debord, Inigo Jones, james frazer the golden bough, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Middleton, King James I, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince William, XTC Andy Partridge | Leave a comment

mind games:imagining a world without gravity

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Dave

When the mind makes an object out of a state of consciousness it returns to a complex matrix of the senses, belief and effort, into separate and divided processes. It seems to be the destiny of all seekers to desire … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alfred Jarry, annie leibovitz, D.H. Lawrence, Elvis Presley, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Lennon, john lennon imagine, Jordan B. Peterson, May Pang, plastic ono band, ronald de sousa, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

strindberg & the painting of chance

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Dave

August Strindberg was mainly known as a writer, but he was also a radical painter for his time. He viewed the landscape of his native Sweden as a reflection and metaphor for his own churning emotions and his diverse compositions … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Jarry, August Strindberg, douglas feuk, Edvard Munch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ingmar Bergman, Jackson Pollock, sue prideaux | 3 Comments

in search of magic: a different route to ecstasy

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dave

A route to ecstasy that began by a descent into the demonic. A negative utopia without free will where freedom was attained through an absence of will. … His 1935 production of Cenci was poorly received. Seventeen performances in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Jarry, Anthony Burgess, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, grotowski, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Luc Sante, Stephen Barber, Susan Sontag | Leave a comment

theater of cruelty: take no prisoners

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Art

Dave: Throughout his life he was to plead for special consideration on the grounds that he was suffering and different from other men. He should be allowed to publish and act not due to any particular merit, but because it … Continue reading →