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a meme as astral seeks
Playing with memes and avoiding the minefield of sensationalism, and new variants on the theme of pornography, which seems to be the antithesis of magic and at least something surprising, compelling and not entirely comprehensible. [Kitsch] is perhaps most clearly … Continue reading
it’s not the meat it’s the notion
“The concept of spectacle unifies and explains a great diversity of apparent phenomena. The diversity and the contrasts are appearances of a socially organized appearance, the general truth of which must itself be recognized. Considered in its own terms, the … Continue reading
so cute you could die
Zany,the often obscure cult of cute with its cutting edge cookie cutter style of homogenized aesthetic quality as mass commodity. An aggressive antidote to the beautiful or the sublime, but rather irritating and shallow often in the realm of the … Continue reading
phenomenal powers: gaining altitude
The phenomenal powers of LSD to intensify and change the mind. A good or an ill? Under controlled conditions, an enlargement of sensitivity and perceptiveness casting a new light on the source of creativity? To many, it is a deep … Continue reading
which picasso?
What made Picasso unique in the history of art is the degree to which he became what may be described as an orchestrator of the public attitude toward his work, expertly creating sympathetic responses to his various successive styles. These … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Madame Pickwick, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Titian
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t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat
T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading
sailing against idiot winds
…Chris Hitchens would have disagreed, but the question can be posed nonetheless as to whether reason can accept Divine Revelation, the proposition that god can, and does communicate with the individual? To the believer, reason is no obstacle to the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anselm kiefer, Christopher Hitchens, Contemporary Holocaust Art, Divine Revelation, Donald Kuspit, Hoffmeier Israel in Egypt, Jon Levenson, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen Dance Me to the End of Love, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sam harris The End of faith, William J. Hamblin, Yvelyne Wood Holocaust art
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none was too many
So it goes, that many assert that if man is to be truly free,then he must be free to make his own moral decisions, accepting or rejecting a given absolute moral standard, or else he is neither free nor even … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Donald Kuspit, Emil Fackenheim, Fritz Hershberger, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman Finkelstein, Orly Yadin Silence, Samuel Bak, Theodor Adorno, Theodor Adorno Auschwitz, yvelyne wood, Yvrlyne Wood
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