Tag Archives: Arno Breker

max has wings

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Dave

Its such a weird story and Picasso was such a cowardly figure. The myth of the great resistor is bunk. How di he get to paint so prodigiously during the war with the finest materials available? Max Jacob knew the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan dixon, amedeo modigliani, Arno Breker, brasillach, dan frank, gabriel aghion, Gertrude Stein, Hilton Kramer, irene nemirovsky, Jean Cocteau, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso, patricia sustrac, Robert Desnos, ward houser | Leave a comment

escape to the clumsy arrangements

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Dave

The aesthetization of political understanding. After all, kitsch is the dominant culture, almost the only culture. Its effects are characterized by immediacy, an ingratiating nature,a form devoid of ambiguity and a cuteness marked by superficiality. Sometimes however, and somewhat disconcertingly, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged adolf reich, adolf wissel, Arno Breker, carl andre, Christian Schad, Clement Greenberg, dennis dutton, Donald Kuspit, edmund steppes, Harold Rosenberg, Herman broch, leo baeck, Louis Proyect, Max Ernst, Michele C. Cone, Milan Kundera, paul padua, sigmar polke | Leave a comment

sign of the times: tainted logic

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Dave

The Aryan myth began inconspicuously as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century and then assumed a life of its own of disproportionate dimensions in the romantic age that morphed into a racial theory of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Arno Breker, Edouard Manet, Fassbinder, Gustave Courbet, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Ivo Saliger, Joseph Thorak, Paul Cezanne, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sontag, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

life on parade: playing dress up

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Dave

It was the Aryan myth. It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics, grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization….. Steven Heller: In fact, Hugo Boss was the designer back … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arno Breker, Arthur Szyk, Bryan Ferry, Filippo Marinetti, Frederic Spotts, Georges Bataille, James Young, Jean Genet, Joseph Thorak, Julius Paul Junghanns, Kerry Bolton, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Steven Heller, Susan Sontag | Leave a comment

myths and madness

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Dave

It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics; it grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization. The Aryan myth….. The most famous proponent of the Aryan myth was Count Arthur … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Janesh, alys eve weinbaum, Arno Breker, arthur de gobineau, Hubert Lanzinger, Joseph Thorak, Leni Riefenstahl, Max Muller, Walter Benjamin | 3 Comments

terrifyingly normal: throw them to the wolves

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Dave

In no other field of social science has prejudice more disastrously masqueraded as fact than in the study of race. Myth has pervaded discussions of race throughout the history of Western civilization. The mythmakers have exploited the popular associations of … Continue reading →