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Tag Archives: Clement Greenberg
main street: direct appeal to the senses
Period pieces. Toby Tyler, circa 1890 and chockablock with tried and tested cliches which work pretty well, even by today’s standards. Toby Tyler, an orphan, and Disney is really the patron saint of orphans, who lives with a crosspatch uncle … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Friedrich Schiller, Gabrielle Thuller, Hegel Philosopher, hermann broch, Ilya Repin, Immanuel Kant, Kevin Corcoran, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mr. Stubbs Toby Tyler, Thomas Kulka, Toby Tyler Disney movie
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unsparing visions of excess
Viridiana, a ferocious imagery that startled movie-goers at its time. The Left ethos that encapsulated everything from Le Chien Andalou ( 1929) , The Young One,The Damned, Stranger in the Room, The Roots, etc. Like Bergman and Fellini this was … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bunuel Land Without Bread, Bunuel Viridiana, Chaplin City Lights, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, Frederico Fellini, Garcia de Quevedo, Ingmar Bergman, Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis Bunuel, Perez Galdos, Salvador dali
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palace intrigue: little castle on the prairie
The court artists who were called upon to depict so august and all-powerful a personage as a sultanĀ were faced with a challenging task. The represented the sultan larger than those around him, their rich robes expansively filling out the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Gentile Bellini, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed II, Ottoman Empire, Roxelana and Suleiman, Sultan Ahmed I, Sultan Murad III Ottoman, Sultan Mustafa II, Turkish art history
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lost highway: back to the city of the patriarchs
The self-hater. it has nothing to do with Gunter Grass’s stupid poem. His meta argument that its not the state its the government, is hoary socialist cant from the left; a socialist attacking Zionism is a family squabble at best. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anna freud, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Daniel Burros, Frank Collin, Franz Kafka, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Hebron, Gilbert Frankeau, Gunter grass, Hannah Arendt, Hebron expulsion, Hebron Passover 2012, Lucian Freud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Noam Arnon, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, The Groggers, William Loeb, Zionism Origins
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revolutionary bluff: pseudo event and image object
It began with Marcel Duchamp. From there it was down the slippery slope to theĀ avant-gardizing and idealizing of the commodity as a form of esthetic entertainment. The inevitable evolution of market economics to recycle the commodity into various conceptual … Continue reading
walking on old stones: no stone unturned
Ziononism is racism. Not really. If anything its a form of self-hatred that denies any element of the spiritual within the individual. Like the art critic Clement Greenberg, who acknowledged his own Jewish self hatred and said the spiritual in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Avi Farchan, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, David Ben Gurion, George Orwell, gush katif expulsion, John Stuart Mill, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Slavoj Zizek, Yamit expulsion, Zionism and the holocaust
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picasso comet
The effect of the rise of esteem in the earlier periods of Picasso automatically put a grip on the reception of the later ones as they came off the easel. Since the end of WWII every freshly painted Picasso was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Francisco Goya, Ilya Repin, Jackson Pollock, Jonathan Richman, jonathan richman pablo picasso, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Man Ray, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Analyst Cubist period, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Valentine Dedensing, William Blake
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periods and public
The Picasso industry. From 1895 to 1944 alone there were a total of 6,751 works of which half were drawings.By the early 1960’s when he was still churning out pieces, there was an additional three to four thousand plus over … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse, King Philip II Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pablo Picasso, Paul Rosenberg art dealer, Paul Rosenberg Picasso, picasso blue period, Picasso Circus period, Picasso Pink Period, Titian
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kitschy-goo
This is a great quote from art critic Donald Kuspit. Kuspit is something of a traditionalist; or rather looking for the old sense of spirituality and insight into human nature to be found in art, a kind of sane dignity … Continue reading