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looking for clues: a smile for arcadia
In Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud found similarities between jokes and work of art. Though not known as much of a comic or given to the guffaw, Freud found the humor in the sketch of the … Continue reading
hunchbacks : bunches of hunches
To some, stroking the hump of the hunchback insures good luck, like “gobbo” in Italy, the impish man, wanky figure, libidinous, with top hat and hump, a kind of Berlusconi , a devilish little beast, but one with access to … Continue reading
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Tagged alfredo triff, claire fontaine, Diego Rivera, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, hunchbacks, Marty Feldman, mayer kirshenblatt, Richard Brautigan, Sigmund Freud, Silvio Berlusconi, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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frida in negative print
Lucienne Bloch grew up surrounded by many of the great intellectuals and artists in the interwar period after her father emigrated to the United States in 1917. This might explain her lack of interest in fame and power. After all, … Continue reading
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Tagged Diego Rivera, diego rivera murals, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Bloch, Frida Kahlo, lucienne bloch
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trotsky between kitsch and killing
Is Leon Trotsky relevant today? There is a continuing fascination with American “cultural Trotskyism” , a kind of aesthetic elitism in contradiction with the masses of “unwashed” it is to lead. Almost a pathological hatred toward the peasant and an … Continue reading
talkin’ bout’ a revolution
How does one explain the enduring legacy of Leon Trotsky? Was it the precient social and political prognosis? The understanding of the forces and dynamic of fascism? Do his admirer’s uphold Trotsky for what he was or for the ideas … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andre Breton, Christopher Hitchens, christopher hitchens trotsky, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, fida kahlo, g. albert aurier, George Orwell Animal Farm, Justin Raimondo, Leon Trotsky, michel lequenne, nat weinstein, natalya sedova, the trotsky jacob tierney, Woodrow Wilson
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kahlo: sensuous transmutation and visionary longing
Undaunted. Defiant. Frida Kahlo is the textbook case of suffering for her art and transforming that suffering into art. Still, after all these years, her reputation seems to absorb new strands of thought which only augment the interest and intrigue … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Antonin Artaud, Diego Rivera, Donald Kuspit, Elizabeth Murray, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, jose domingo lavin, leo eloesser, Leon Trotsky, Louise Bourgeois, marilyn oshman, mary garrard, natalia sedova, Pablo Picasso, Robert Lepage, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism
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