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Tag Archives: Bertolt Brecht
sleeping in comfort: gracious living
Such a disconnect between the bright, optimistic and shiny marketing image of Ikea and the reality of slave labor production; all those earnest and evolved Swedes, post-Bergman’s, meticulously laying the framework for a do-it-yourself assembly post modern aesthetic of cheap … Continue reading
romancing the joan
The trial and execution of Joan of Arc was just the beginning for the poor soul. In the centuries since the Maid has continued to provoke anger and awe, becoming a symbol for monarchists, romantics, Left and Right… Another movement … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alphonse de Lamartine, Andre Dahl, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Bertolt Brecht, Brecht Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Fremiet sculptor, Friedrich Schiller, George W. Joy, Hermann Anton Stilke, Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Quicherat, Landor, Michelet Histoire de France, Perceval de Cagny, Southey, Tchaikovsky, Thomas De Quincey
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weill done: a weill deal
by Art Chantry: one thing i’ve taught myself to do while thrifting is to always ALWAYS dig through old stashes of classical records. i used to skip over classical records when i found them at yard sales and thrift store … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, Bertolt Brecht, Frasconi, Ivan Chermayeff, Joseph Albers, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mario Lanza, Milton Glaser, Neil S. Fujita, push pin studios, Richard M. Powers, Richard Powers, robert brownjohn, Searle, seymour chwast
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garibaldi : romance for the authentic
They don’t make them like that anymore. He was one of the first stars of the media age of mass produced and disseminated images. it was the beginning of celebrity as the basis for our communal lives; the most significant … Continue reading
too many dicks not enough jane
Its the use of Bertolt Brecht technique of montage imposed on the early style flash-mob style editing of Disney found in Oswald the Rabbit. The process of introducing non-natural elements that have no natural relation to what is being played … Continue reading
the braun of a new age
Apple design and uncanny similarities with post-war design of Braun products. coincidence? Not at all and perfectly comprehensible. The marriage of Apple and Braun design is also uncannily like Werner Fassbinder’s post-war triology, in particular the Marriage of Maria Braun. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged apple design, Bertolt Brecht, dieter rams, dieter rams braun, fassbinder marriage of maria braun, jonathan ive, laurene powell, michael spindler apple, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Steve Jobs, steve kroft, walter isaacson
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case of mistaken identity: but not in my backyard
Mistaken identity and false pretense. Mistaken identity has always been the source for arriving at some rich existential meanings.But, behind fervent religious belief, is it the will to meaning in the sense of Victor Frankl, or some twisted ideology arising … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Lynch, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Hegel Philosopher, ingrid peritz, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, jewish taliban, John Zorn, john zorn circle maker, lev tahor sect, marc ribot, menachem kahana, Michel Foucault, patrick martin globe and mail, schreber, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin, warren jeffs
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like a rock: not quite white hope
“Men give meaning to their lives by realizing. . . creative values, by achieving tasks,” wrote Viktor Frankl. The will-to-meaning, a push to articulate the vague, foggy but lighted material of sustenance, was more basic and essential to Frankl than … Continue reading
full chalk circle
There was a sense of existential desperation to this quintessentially German artist. Death infection was always lurking in the work of Bertolt Brecht, often the fatalistic embodiment of existential truth. This lurking triumph of death, the dance of death, may … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Andy Warhol, Bertolt Brecht, dieter hacker, Donald Kuspit, elvira bach, georg baselitz, Harold Rosenberg, Hegel Philosopher, helmut middendorf, martin disler, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, walter ulbricht
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