Tag Archives: Gerhard Richter

tin drum solo: private concert

Trivialities and profound truths. This spit and spat match with Gunter Grass can be seen as using Israel and Jews as a pretext for his own bashing of a new Germany, one remarkably different than his own version, which has … Continue reading

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brand name incidental relationships

The transformation of beauty into claims of prestige? What if there was no super-wealthy class to cultivate and consume art and hence be able to draw invidious comparisons with their peers? Veblen asserted that wealth display and the splurging of … Continue reading

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muckrakers and culture stakers

The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading

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grey melancholia: looking for mourners

“Where one comes from?” The work of art invested with the pathos of melencholia.Fake tears? The failure of the West as a humanizing endeavor? Dreams of resurrection decomposing. The numbing greyness of the decaying corpse, the failed experiment of regeneration … Continue reading

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people in glass cases

Call it an archiving of the human inventory of the ghetto. An accounting before sealing the doors shut and flipping the switch. August Sander. It was the new scientific method of photography. The subject as an anatomical study of the … Continue reading

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is it art without the spiritual?

Is art, art, when there is no spiritual content? Or is it simply at the level of a visual language that descends to the level of advertising and marketing management? Does the absence of the embodiment of the spiritual mean … Continue reading

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violence and loss: dead moon fever

The beauty in ambivalence? Theodor Adorno said that after Auschwitz it was impossible to write poetry. But, is attempting to make beautiful art irresponsible? Is it responsible to invoke, to posit, monumentalism to unyielding hopelessness; to imply that nihilism is … Continue reading

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spirits having flown: another gray morning

What is meant by the spiritual in art is not self-evident; its been lost in translation, like finding the code to understanding Van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece, its becoming extinct as a graspable part of the lexicon and daily interchange. The … Continue reading

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kitsch and the scandal of discovery

Maybe its about our ingrained habits of denying what we know, but don’t want to know.What could be termed disavowal. A dark, musty zone between knowing and unknowing. There is nothing sexually overt in John Currin’s paintings, an absence of … Continue reading

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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness

His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading

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