Tag Archives: George Grosz

hanging by a thread

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Dave

Max Beckmann studied medieval German art, the triptychs, loaded with gory, violent scenes of Christian martyrdom, at its most inglorious and vulgar incarnations of the human grotesque. In his modern condition, the contradictions of Weimar, there is none of the … Continue reading →

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fantastic realism

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Dave

She represented the opposite of the one dimensional society that was being constructed around her. Contrary to the nazi idea of purity, the well-managed in-bred society in the quest for the authentic human being and with the help of eugenics, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged George Grosz, Hannah Hoch, Hans Richter, John Heartfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Raoul Hausmann | Leave a comment

take off your slippers: only the nice die young

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dave

and so it is it really possible to effectuate a meaningful change in the organization of society? A fulfillment of the Isiah prophecy of relations between the spirit without the intermediary of material considerations.Can we as infants, at least aspire … Continue reading →

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brecht: cleaning out the stale slag of feeling

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Dave

The why of Bertolt Brecht’s popularity in America has always been a bit complicated. One way or another, the United States held a personal fascination for Brecht, and his attitude towards it developed through two distinct phases. As a young … Continue reading →

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when my ship comes in

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Dave

Identity crisis. Crisis what Crisis? The debate inside Israel over these issues is passionate and ongoing, but perhaps not too profound. It stays in the comfort zone, preventing an articulation of a coherent definition of its own identity. If the … Continue reading →

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apocalypse: yearning for nihilion

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dave

the Apocalypse has always held a particular fascination in the American imagination from religious fundamentalism to secular fear-mongers of nuclear holocaust, new age warnings of environmental apocalypse and economic armageddon because of greedy bankers and those sneaky poor who cheat … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Filippo Marinetti, George Grosz, harold camping, Italian Futurists, livin' for the apocalypse, lord byron darkness, Max Ernst, Max Horkheimer, michael shermer, Ronald Reagan, survival doctor, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

cabaret voltaire: an arcade project

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Dave

Dada as just another shop, another boutique in the arcade? Dada put into question the myths surrounding originality, and the relationship of the artist to the category of “genius”. Dada suggested instead, or implied that everyone could be an artist, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Andy Warhol, cubism and dada, Donald Kuspit, emily hennings, Ernst Bloch, Francis Picabia, futurism and dada, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hans Richter, Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, miles w. mathis, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, situationism, Tristan Tzara, Voltaire, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin dada | Leave a comment

finger pointing: myths of progress

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Dave

The Judeo-Chrsitian tradition of redemption, as a worthwhile pursuit, and the complementary concept of utopia is centrally linked to the idea of progress.But is this progress, and all it entails with the pursuit of knowledge merely a pseudo progress, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Bertolt Brecht, George Grosz, george scholz, Hannah Hoch, Karl Marx, max hermann-neisse, Max Horkheimer, Otto Dix, raymond barglow, rudolf schlicter, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

gotta serve somebody

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Art

However different the society’s they pictured, both Otto Dix and Toulouse Lautrec represented a society in which the proletariat underclass or the under-underclass served the bourgeois upper echelons. And, war and sex, in the sense of romantic realism were seen … Continue reading →

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disruptive mobility: mop up the unemployed imagination

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Dave

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 →