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Naples down under
How they live and die in Naples. It was quite a collaboration. A great Italian film director interviewed his fellow citizens, while a leading German photographer recorded them. The result was a poignant document of humanity and heartbreak that very … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Feininger, Bicycle Thief De Sica, Hans Bellmer, Herbert List, Herbert List photography, Lyonel Feinninger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Ernst, Napoli Vittorio De Sica, Robert Capa, Stephen Spender, Studs Terkel, vittorio de sica
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ballot box of brotherhood love: sphynx fetish
Normative democracy based on the rule of property law. Turkey light. That seems to be the template to be adopted. According to the Financial Times, the debt market is stabilizing and the stock market in Cairo is rising slowly. Egypt … Continue reading
between five and six: cruising with the marquise
The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Gilles Deleuze, Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget
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fantasy on the life of the hybrid
The Tin Drum. At first sight this monstrous book looks as thought it might be a satire on the life of Germany during the Hitler era, the war, and the postwar boom. Its hero has a German name and thinks … Continue reading
hunters and collectors: carry that weight
For seemingly forever, sociologists, psychologists, and amateur pundits of all persuasions have tried to comprehend why people collect; from the Collyer brothers to Eli Broad, it appears a pointless yet universal pursuit at least on the logical surface irrational waters … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Maslow, ai weiwei, avital ronell, Collyer Brothers, Eli Broad, ellsworth kelly, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Borgnine, Hans Bellmer, Homer and Langley Collyer, Jackson Pollock, kraft-ebbing, mary boone, odd nerdrum, scott chinery, Sigmund Freud, steve shaviro, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin
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l’amour fou: abstract extreme ambivalence
Surrealism as an inherently anti-woman movement? The female body viewed as primitive machines designed socially,psychologically and mechanically to carry out primitive functions.This intensity and dept of a response to women was a rupture with traditional figurative art, a certain appropriation … Continue reading
feel the feeling from without: vulgar(t)
When dreams turn into a dark nightmare, a small flickering flame extinguishable by a baby’s breath. It’s the realization of a nihilistic endgame, but its causes, and controlling forces are not always tangible, the reality is not transparent and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Francis Picabia, Franz Kafka, Frederico Fellini, Hans Bellmer, Jeff Koons, Leautremont, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein
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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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meninas: sweeping out our house
Same shit. Different day.The tragic waltz of nihilism to achieve a kind of purification, a kind of radical immanence. Kitschified and recyclable. It sells. The grotesque arranged for esthetic profit. Artistically, it reflects the love hate relationship with the modern … Continue reading
force feeding a permeable society
The artist’s treatment of the individual does in many respects, though not definitively, reflect a culture’s attitude towards itself. There is a grey zone between kitsch and perversity, as if they gravitate to one another creating a rather violent aesthetic. … Continue reading
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Tagged Body Worlds and the Cycle of Life Exhibition, broch, Carolee Schneemann, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Hans Bellmer, Jerry Saltz, Kiki Smith, mario wasserman, Marquis de Sade, otto kernberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, terence koh, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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