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absurdities: the masculine warrior figure
Vanity is usually pretty revolting. An auto-glorification. narcissism. But as a minor saving grace, it can aspire to a certain honesty. But, for some reason, the relationship between vanity and worshiping money remains an enduring legacy, as if the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Cindy Sherman, edouard manet olympia, Ernst Junger, Filippo Marinetti, Hans Bellmer, hermann broch, italian futurism, John Updike, lucio fontana, Max Ernst, Otto Weininger, Piero Manzoni, richard kazis, robert stoller, Umberto Boccioni, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed
Pablo Picasso found himself in Paris during World War II. Stranded……. Overall, reading through Matisse’s correspondence with Camoin in La Revue de l’Art (12, 1971) makes me suspect that Matisse’s behavior during Vichy had little to do directly with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Aristide Maillol, Carl Goldstein, Charles Camoin, Dave Douglas, Dave Douglas Duncan, Demetrios Galanis, Dina Vierny, Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Ernst Junger, Florence Gould, Frederic Spotts, Georges Duthuit, Gerhard Heller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Leonard Cohen, Louis Aragon, Marcel Jouhandeau, Marie-Louise Bousquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Max Jacob, Megan Meighan, Michele C. Cone, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Fournier, Ramon Fernandez, Richard Eder, Riva Castleman, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Rosalind Krauss, Sacha Guitry, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Spott
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PICASSO’S REFLEX ANXIETY :2 1/2 Men & Close Encounter of the 3 1/2 Kind
Perhaps more than any other artist, Pablo Picasso depicted the dark side; the Darth Vader of the human psyche, as well as the positive and the beautiful…This departure by Picasso from the so-called “civilized” and classical influences of Western art … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Breton, Carl Goldstein, Darth Vader, David Galenson, Donald Kuspit, Edmond Fortier, Edward Fry, Ernst Junger, Fernande Olivier, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, J.K. Huysmans, jack Flam, John Berger, Jonathan Richman, Jonathan Richman The Modern Lovers, Laura Ball, Leo Steinberg, Max Kosloff, Megan Meighan, Michele Leight, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Richard Hamilton, Robert J. Sternberg, Robert Smithson, Rosalind Krauss, Satie, Sigmund Freud, Stravinsky, Vladimir Tatlin
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PICASSO HO HUM:The Banality of Evil?
The story of Picasso’s Guernica is in itself a study of myth and of enduring magic….Even Picasso could not a foreseen the impact of Guernica and his own struggles living in occupied France. The political situation forced Picasso into isolation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Derain, Andre Lhote, Ernst Junger, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Jean Bazaire, Jean Du Buffon, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Julien Hervier, Leo Steinberg, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michele C. Cone, Pablo Picasso, Paul Fluard, Pete Hamill, Richard Eder, Robert Luongo
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WEIMAR AND THE VIOLENCE OF AMNESIA: Trope of a Troubled Burial
Accusations of elitism, populous slanders of the word as pejorative have been unleashed as aprt of the American cultural landscape in this season of discontent. Can we take lessons form the Weimar Republic? The right wing tone of academia in … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Birkle, August Sander, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Ernst Junger, Georges Bataille, Hegel Philosopher, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, Irving Wohlfahrt, Jay Winter, Jeanne Mammen, Martin Buber, Oskar Kokoschka, Pierre Missac, Stefan George, Stephane Moses, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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WEIMAR: “CREOLE LOVE CALL” on the Rhine
Everyone loves to throw around the Weimar metaphor, from pundit Glenn Beck to America’s anarchist in residence Noam Chomsky, and a contingent of microphone friendly snake oil salesmen in between…Crazy or sane, left or right, the analogies of fear mongering … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Schmitt, Conrad Felixmuller, Erhard Gopel, Eric D. Weitz, Ernst Junger, Franz Neumann, Frederik Taylor, Glenn Beck, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, James Fallows, James Fallows Guardian, Jankel Adler, Jeanne Mammen, John Maynard Keynes, Josephine Baker, Marcel Ronay, Martin Hutchinson, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Krugman, Sandy Levinson
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