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learning from the best
Just to advise that the Nazi version of the death camp, the forced labor camp, did not insidiously arise out of thin air, out of a vacuum. The precedent had already been well established; the mold in large measure a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Tille, Alfred Russell Wallace, Benjamin Kidd, Charles White, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Edith Birkin, Eufrosinia Kernovskaya, Felix Nussbaum, Francis Galton, Frederick Farrar, Friedrich Ratzel, Herbert Spencer, kahanism, Kikuyu detention camps, Lenin Gulag Solovetsky, Martin Heidegger, Max Hastings, Nikolai Getman, robert knox, Sven Lindqvist, The Boer War, W. Winwood Reade
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the hidden look: looks within looks
In a way, Zionism is explainable in its zeal to create a “new jew” ; an act of nihilism to consign to the dust-bin of history the entire diasporic experience of jewish life pulverized by the atomic bomb of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba Kovner, Alfred Rosenberg, Arthur Dinter, Arthur Koestler, eichmann trial, Felix Nussbaum, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Singer, J.F. Blumenbach, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Martin Englander, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, rich cohen author, roman vishniac, roman vishniak, Theodor Lessing, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Reich
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easel does it: I’ll paint with my donkey
Old easels never die, they just drag themselves into the woods on their last legs to become recycled, resurrected again to serve the aims of art. When painting came off the wall and onto the floor, the deed was done … Continue reading
finite voices
Subjective rationality is a very elusive term; an alternative conception of rationality that could shed light and propose some resolutions to the pathologies of modern society. Its basis is a belief in the decline of individuality in favor of the … Continue reading
cry him a river
Varying degrees of madness. A creepy but vulnerable figure escaping his awkward urges with bloodhounds on his trail. It is an intangible sliver of hope. Peter Lorre gives pause for a reflection on the nature of evil, particularly who the … Continue reading
guilt and forgiveness: “i” for you “thou” for me…
…and a bell jar in between.Innocence. Does it really exist? Or is it just a virtual good to be bartered with Faustus as another bad deal. Contextually, it is more about the ways individuals manufacture or construct a world of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Solomon, Elaine Showalter, Erica Jong, Felix Nussbaum, Giorgio de Chirico, Jacques Derrida, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Faithfull, Otto Plath, sylvia plath, sylvia plath daddy, Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath
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disruptive mobility: mop up the unemployed imagination
Art that contradicts by showing its contradictions, its unresolvable tensions, will usually end up being debunked and marginalized as a distortion to a broader picture.A random anomaly to be forgotten. There is a tendency to want to keep our morals, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bersani, Cindy Sherman, Colin Maccabe, Conrad Felixmuller, Craig Owens, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Edward Bernays, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, George Grosz, Gottfried Helnwein, Goya, Guy Debord, Leo Bersani, Mark Vallen, Max Beckmann, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit
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$#*! That’s real real gone
Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or sermon or ritual. To Otto Dix, death was not … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Phillips, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Maja, Leo Bersani, Marcel marceau, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Richard Poirier, Robert Fulford, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit, Viktor Frankl
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LAYERS & LAYERS OF DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS
Quite brilliantly, John Ruskin wrote of the Seven Lamps of Architecture; the seven lamps ,”lamps” meaning that which illuminates the mind or soul of sacred architecture. They are: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience; and when combined, they … Continue reading
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Tagged Anschel Pfeffer, Christopher Nolan, David Harry Ellenson, Dina Podolsky, Elie Wiesel, Felix Nussbaum, Franz Marc, Franz Rosenzweig, Holocaust, Inception DiCaprio, John Ruskin, Josh Dolgin, Kahane, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lionel Kochan, Martin Buber, Mordechai Eliyahu, Natasha Mozgovaya, Operation Cast Lead, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Zachary J. Braiterman
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HELL BOUND ON A SHIP OF FOOLS
Hell, the devils and the torments of the damned. From fire and brimstone Christianity, to the murky byways of Judaism’s deepest recesses, the horrifying separation of moral wheat from the chaff and the swift descent into hell have always been … Continue reading
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Tagged Dante Alighieri, Faust, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, Goethe, Gustave Dore, Hannah Arendt, Hieronymous Bosch, Jerome Kohn, Mad Maggie, Michael Pacher, Paul Chenavard, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Theodor Adorno
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