Tag Archives: Leni Riefenstahl

spiritually diseased please

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dave

There was a famous line attributed to Walter Benjamin that captures somewhat the problem the Nazi’s had with what they termed “degenerate art,” which lacked the necessary material underpinnings to easily transform itself into unchallenging kitsch. Benjamin’s “logical result of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alexander mitscherlich, David Grubin, Degenerate Art Exhibit 1937, diane thodos, Donald Kuspit, el lissitzky, Emil Nolde, gitta sereny, godley and Creme, Leni Riefenstahl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marg Moll, Max Horkheimer, Naom Slutzky, Otto Dix, Otto Freundlich, Peter barnes, Peter Barnes plays, Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

houses of the holies: global idol

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Dave

Idol worship; its always been the bane of monotheism and the source of a persistent if seemingly losing conflict. The issue always arises, or placed at the cross-hairs, particularly this year with the movement for a moment of silence for … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Berlin Olympics 1936, Israel Olympic Committee, Josephus the Jewish War, Leni Riefenstahl, London Olympic Mascots, London Olympics 2012, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Peter Paul Rubens, Pole dancing, Pole dancing olympics sport, Robert Boyle author, Tim Trautman | Leave a comment

mythologizing camera

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dave

Compared to Norman Rockwell for depicting a slice of life Americana, but the comparison is a but unjust; Ozzie Sweet’s work lacks that element of American disavowal and the subtle and hidden eroticism found in much of Rockwell’s illustration. From … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Einstein, Leni Riefenstahl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Ozzie Sweet photography, tom brokaw, tom brokaw the greatest generation | Leave a comment

return to sender

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born. It was also the last day Hitler would appear outside of his bunker in Berlin—he would be dead 10 days later—in 1945. … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged adolf hitler birthday, adolf hitler death, german war eagle, graphic design, jesse marinoff reyes, Leni Riefenstahl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, nazis masters of corporate identity, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl | Leave a comment

the jazz swingers

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dave

African masks. The surrealists and the fetish for the African mask. The Man Ray photographs, the Demoiselles D’Avignon of Picasso in which cubsim collapsed the figurative. The African iconography and jazz was a metaphor for the exotic and a key … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Arnold Schoenberg, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Django Reinhardt, german swing youth, itzhak perlman, Jean Paul Sartre, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Lindy Hop, Marcel Duchamp, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, stephane grappelli, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

reality: it ain’t necessarily so

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

At issue is whether meaning is an objective reality as opposed to an elaborated form of plain vanilla illusion arising from perception and dressed to the nines or is meaning a subjective reality, a fluid boundary shifter that reflects that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Friedrich Nietzsche, George Gershwin, guillaume duhamel, Keanu Reeves, Leni Riefenstahl, lily tomlin, Michel Foucault, richard kazis, Slavoj Zizek, the matrix 1999, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

obey

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Dave

Obey. If you put them in a line, will they just keep going? Are they brought up that way? Obedience. The question might not be centered around perverse pleasures and sadism, but of placing oneself in view of the all … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Alice Miller, anselm kiefer, emmanuel levinas, georg baselitz, Gunter grass, helmut middendorf, janka, Leni Riefenstahl, markus lupertz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rebecca horn, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

monster mice: illusion and kitsch

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Dave

The exaggerated gestures and actions that formed a necessary basis for silent films could only live on in cartoon animation where American eccentrism could still be articulated, capturing the wild speed of a Chaplin, Keystone Cops, slapstick and other representations … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alla gadassik, bill hanna, Clement Greenberg, danial nord, douglas kahn, Esther Leslie, felix the cat, Ingmar Bergman, joe barbera, Kurt Weill, Leni Riefenstahl, Lewis Carroll, miriam hansen, pearl harbor attack, Sergei Eisenstein, Stefan George, Theodor Adorno, tom and jerry cartoon, walt disney studios, Walter Benjamin, walter trier | Leave a comment

is it art without the spiritual?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Damien Hirst, georg baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, James Hillman, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leni Riefenstahl, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, polke, social realist art, veronica brady, warhol pop art, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

alchemy and attics: even nice trash finishes last

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dave

Arousing the liveliest regret in the dreamer…. The scrap heap of history. The trash heap of history.Discarded and abandoned objects on the pile of the dustheap. Shipwrecked artifacts left to ebb and flow. So, what does ecology, the green movement … Continue reading →