Tag Archives: bernhard vesper

violence and loss: dead moon fever

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dave

The beauty in ambivalence? Theodor Adorno said that after Auschwitz it was impossible to write poetry. But, is attempting to make beautiful art irresponsible? Is it responsible to invoke, to posit, monumentalism to unyielding hopelessness; to imply that nihilism is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alice Miller, anselm kiefer, bernhard vesper, Donald Kuspit, ernst nolte, Gerhard Richter, Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Heine, Joseph Beuys, mark r. dobbins, Martin Heidegger, sophie fiennes, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

boris lurie: distrubing the ceremony

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Dave

How was holocaust themed art received in the “land of the perpetrators”? Well, For over two decades everyone tried to forget. It was a cultural amnesia and the path of least resistance. Make money. Raise your family. And don’t go … Continue reading →