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Tag Archives: Carolee Schneemann
at the wall of disbelief
It’s another case of utter disbelief. It can be said that disbelief arises, as a primal reaction, before knowledge, rationality, and analysis roll in and suffocate it; attempts to domesticate it, tame the volatile components and explain it away, perhaps … Continue reading
force feeding a permeable society
The artist’s treatment of the individual does in many respects, though not definitively, reflect a culture’s attitude towards itself. There is a grey zone between kitsch and perversity, as if they gravitate to one another creating a rather violent aesthetic. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Body Worlds and the Cycle of Life Exhibition, broch, Carolee Schneemann, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Hans Bellmer, Jerry Saltz, Kiki Smith, mario wasserman, Marquis de Sade, otto kernberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, terence koh, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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summer of discontent: is the end near?
” The nature of people is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.” ( Vico) People have no doubt been bemoaning the decadence of the times since the expulsion from the Garden. But what actually constitutes decadence … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adorno, American Apparel advertising, American Apparel banned ad, anne brockinton, Arnold Toynbee, Bruce Mazlish, calvin klein advertising, Carolee Schneemann, henri Bergson, Max Horkheimer, Natacha Stolz, Oswald Spengler, robert m. lee, Russell Smith, the NRA, vico
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SHAPES OF THINGS: Complicit in the Act of the Meme
“Everything is shit. We apply meaning, value, and worth to the shit surrounding us. We live by this meaning and by our words. We live by worth and apply value, but everything is shit.” “She mutters her poem backwards in … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Amber Case, Carolee Schneemann, Clare Johnson, Forever(21), Henry Jenkins, Hiba Ali, Interior Semiotics, Jeannie Parke Beard, Joel Kuennen, John Fiske, Martha Rosler, Mayhem, Natacha Stolz, Pizza Slut, Russell Smith, Schapylle Scragg, Timothy Vollmer, Tracey Emin
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