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Tag Archives: Harold Rosenberg
A toast to dorian gray
Is our post-modern condition characterized by an instilling of youthfulness into an ancient world. A rejuvenation of creaky old bones. Baudelaire wrote of youth as a sort of priesthood, at least according to the young. Youth is a fetish, a … 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
compromised complex structures
A de-idealization of the human figure. A coldness. An absence of a humanizing purpose. A bit of spitefulness and the malicious thrown in for effect. Willem de Kooning continues to divide critics and pubic. On on part, a misogynist, sexist … Continue reading
beatlemania : because we said so
Celebrity as a cultural signifier. The need for the sacrificial. Are myths to a large degree, constructions, fabrications, which are conspirational in nature? Something to serve a base need as a substitute for finding meaning in life. Here, the victim … Continue reading
striving to please: the second tear
It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Clive Bell, David Hume, Denis Dutton, Fernand Leger, Hannah Hoch, Harold Rosenberg, hermann broch, Howard Jacobson, john currin, Luke Fildes, Marcel Duchamp, Mel Brooks The Producers, milan kindera, stuart davis, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, tomas kulka, Walter Benjamin
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escape to the clumsy arrangements
The aesthetization of political understanding. After all, kitsch is the dominant culture, almost the only culture. Its effects are characterized by immediacy, an ingratiating nature,a form devoid of ambiguity and a cuteness marked by superficiality. Sometimes however, and somewhat disconcertingly, … Continue reading
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Tagged adolf reich, adolf wissel, Arno Breker, carl andre, Christian Schad, Clement Greenberg, dennis dutton, Donald Kuspit, edmund steppes, Harold Rosenberg, Herman broch, leo baeck, Louis Proyect, Max Ernst, Michele C. Cone, Milan Kundera, paul padua, sigmar polke
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full chalk circle
There was a sense of existential desperation to this quintessentially German artist. Death infection was always lurking in the work of Bertolt Brecht, often the fatalistic embodiment of existential truth. This lurking triumph of death, the dance of death, may … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Andy Warhol, Bertolt Brecht, dieter hacker, Donald Kuspit, elvira bach, georg baselitz, Harold Rosenberg, Hegel Philosopher, helmut middendorf, martin disler, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, walter ulbricht
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authentic pathology and cozy passivity
Is art is the creation of an artifact that is it’s own argument? Essentially, It does not need a theory to define it, an expert scholar to contextualize it, or a given situation to render it meaning. So, a true … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Filippo Marinetti, graydon parrish, Harold Rosenberg, Jeff Koons, jenny saville, Lady Gaga, Lucian Freud, Lucien Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Rembrandt, Svetlana Alpers, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin
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surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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