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Tag Archives: D.W. Winnicott
signed into law, sealed and delivered…
Appearance at the expense of reality, as a gesture to obscure and deny reality? Rather in the context of post-modernism, the society of the spectacle, where we give up on external as well as internal reality, treating the two of … Continue reading
hidden messages
To forfeit your own reality, to forfeit your own identity and sense of autonomy. To step into the game of the human being as “ready-made” a banal, everyday generic object prissied up with a few optional features as a mark … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler product placement, Audrey Hepburn, D.W. Winnicott, FCC, FCC Federal Communications Commission, Guy Debord, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, product placement in movies, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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idiot wind
The body being brought to life by perverse aesthetics. The body as the be-all and end-all of existence and the only thing of significance and importance in a relationship. Its a hyper objectification that uses abstract means, part of what … Continue reading
pining for the grey elysium
Can an artist be beyond the reach of criticism because they have been so institutionalized and commodified by the taste makers of celebrity? Are we buying the talent, the art or the brand, like the steak and sizzle distinction. The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, bertram lewin, Charles Le Brun, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Velazquez, james kalm, Jasper Johns, Lawrence Alloway, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, w.r. bion, Walter Benjamin, willem de Kooning
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when the grim reaper won’t leave
A bit problematic to be German. Still. The long arc of history is easily within an arm’s reach of the old Germany, tortured, and with a romantic sensibility of subject confronted with a bleak Germanism that marked the new realism. … Continue reading
warhol: another green world
Rimbaud:”The poet should make himself a seer by a long, immense, deliberate disorder of all the senses”. The constipated mind of dented cans. An alchemical process of language, which Rimbaud could not have foreseen the ways in which consumer society … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alan kaprow, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Billy Wilder, D.W. Winnicott, Damien Hirst, emmet cole, Guy Debord, Harold Bloom, Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, Michele C. Cone, Odilon Redon, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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skating for the stars
Kitsch was the dominant theme behind French Salon painting and English Victorian art; the heavier it was buttered onto canvas the better. Sentimental decoration and dreary bourgeois values sparked the anxiety inducing fear of kitsch as one of the central … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged brett yormark, D.W. Winnicott, daniel boorstin, david michaels NBC, gilbert stuart, gjon mili, hendrick avercamp, juliet macur, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, walter granville smith
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feel the feeling from without: vulgar(t)
When dreams turn into a dark nightmare, a small flickering flame extinguishable by a baby’s breath. It’s the realization of a nihilistic endgame, but its causes, and controlling forces are not always tangible, the reality is not transparent and the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Francis Picabia, Franz Kafka, Frederico Fellini, Hans Bellmer, Jeff Koons, Leautremont, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein
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turning the back pages: thin people redux
Can memories be esthetically radicalized? What is the process? Taking the old image, the old picture, what Freud termed the hyper-aesthetic memory, the fragmented slivers of flash, then using them to catalyze creativity. D.W. Winnicott had a genial idea of … Continue reading
WMD: cook the books
Leveraged exchange traded funds or ETF’s….These financiers. Morbidly earthbound figures, weighed down by the heavy change in their pockets. Without that primitive anchor of coin rooting them to the soil, they would float away into a void, a kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged bitov castle, Charles Baudelaire, charles bukowski, D.W. Winnicott, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, douglas a. kass, Erich Fromm, ETF volatility, George Soros, John Paulson, Jonathan McIntosh, levis go forth, Marcel Duchamp, molinari antonio, seabreeze partners, the golden calf, Victor Hugo, Walter Benjamin
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