Tag Archives: Donald Kuspit

pythagoras to byzantium

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dave

It’s difficult to put the notion of Greece and the traditional assumption we have of it as birthplace of Western civilization, into context, particularly cultural, when confronted with images of mass civil unrest. The images do lend themselves to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Dante, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Homer The Iliad, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, nicholas poussin, Sam Huntington | Leave a comment

forever young

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

To stay forever young. To defy aging. to somehow cheat the odds and glorify in a kind of infantilism; a taunting provocative sort of dissent, like children peeing on the living room carpet. We are definitely in a post-art age … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, John Heartfield, John Lennon Walls and Bridges, Lynn Stern, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, paul mccarthy, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

just above the knees

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Dave

Syrupy sentimentality dished out in soup ladles is not enough. Kitsch alone cannot explain the enduring allure or at least interest in Norman Rockwell’s work. According to Donald Kuspit in his article “Art Values or Money Values” , Rockwell works … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged albert spalding, Diego Rivera, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, jane austen baseball, Julian Norridge, Norman Rockwell, norman rockwell covers, Norman Rockwell illustrations, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

eternally recurring youth

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dave

A narcissism? A fear of emotion? What does it mean to be human? The death of Mike Kelley this past month forces one to put the concept of the avant-garde on trial; a spotlight on this never grow old, eternally … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adrian Searle, Charles Baudelaire, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, John Baldessari, John Keats, Laurie Anderson, Marcel Duchamp, Mike Kelley, Norman Rockwell, Paul Gauguin, paul mccarthy, stephanie barron, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

hollywood

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dave

Love this passage from a Donald Kuspit article. Kuspit is much maligned and dismissed by many, but is certainly willing to put his neck out there and as a critic shows a lot of gritty toughness, moxie and elan. He’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alfred flechtheim, Cabaret movie, capitalist critique, Donald Kuspit, Otto Dix, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

the wall street scuffle

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Dave

The man approached the teller and proceeded to undertake his deposit, transfer money to his line of credit and ended his sequence by a request to order cheques, a package of fifty would suffice, but a greater quantity if less … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, dodd-frank, Donald Kuspit, douglas gorsline, elliott barowitz, francis p. nauman, Frans Hals, hendrik gerritsz pot, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Doucet, Jean Genet, John Heartfield, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, philippe bruno, quentin metsys, rudolf herz, The Merchant of Venice, Walter Arensberg | Leave a comment

norman conquest

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Dave

The portraying of the mundane and banal, the glorification of the ordinary and a reinforcing of cultural narcissism, the mantle of manifest destiny and the core values of American exceptionalism. Illustrations that endlessly repeated variations of boredom with a hint … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arnold ernst toht, Donald Kuspit, Meyer Schapiro, Norman Rockwell, norman rockwell gun digest, norman rockwell kellogg, norman rockwell kelloggs, norman rockwell winchester guns, shirley temple, stan vosburg | Leave a comment

plasticity and re-mix

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Dave

Plasticity a term from Sergei Eisenstein that referred to the fluidity and creative potential of animation that extended more profoundly than mere visual surface. It is the conflict of images in a montage of attraction in which the plasticity generates … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Creative Commons, Donald Kuspit, Georges Seurat, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jonathan McIntosh, political remix videos, Political Remix Videos PRV, Sergei Eisenstein, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

nihilism : brave new world

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dave

Seduced. The abolition of logic and its replacement by spontaneity. The will to nothing. No permit requited. The strange guest, nihilism, at the door. Somehow the grain of the new, a weird perversion of creationism which combines the anxiety of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Atheism, David Brooks, David Hume, Donald Kuspit, h.p. lovecraft, Hannah Arendt, Heath Ledger, Jeremy Bentham, Michel Houellebecq, Nietzsche, nihilism, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, willem de Kooning, william lane craig | Leave a comment

is that your hand on my thigh?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

A story of sex, secrets, and Ivy League denial or is it fantasy? Disavowal. Complicity. A career boost. Might as well milk it for what its worth. As if fawning over her is somehow a mark of distinction, A heaven-sent … Continue reading →