Tag Archives: Marcel Duchamp

the chosen: wandering decisions

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Dave

Tyranny of the majority. Its a stock character today, but is the perhaps dominant cultural aesthetic of our time: the endless variations on the neurotic and hyperarticulate, as well as sexually obsessed individual; throw in issues of class and assimilation … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged bar refaeli, Bob Dylan, eugene sue, Guy Debord, Herman Wouk, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jean Genet, Marcel Duchamp, natalie wood, Philip Roth, Slavoj Zizek, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

hessel: stuck down gideon’s well

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Dave

Peculiar man this Stephane Hessel. The man of no fixed address in the spiritual sphere, floating vaguely between strains of Jewish thought and Christianity who grounded himself by welding his soul onto onto the deck of likely the ship of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Breton, Francois Truffaut, Henri-Pierre Roche, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Ruben Blades, rudolf herz, Stephane Hessel, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Dave

The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves. You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Francisco Goya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marcel Duchamp, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris | Leave a comment

t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Dave

T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Anil Revri, baal shem tov, Donald Kuspit, Hermann Hesse, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Otto Dix, Piet Mondrian, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Wassily Kandinsky, Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

malraux: not properly speaking, faith, but some…

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods. It was a daring venture of the intellect… …This Christ is not Jesus- or not yet. His message is love- but of a certain kind. Later ages, looking upon the figures of medieval … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged André Bazin, Andre Malraux, Andre Malraux Metamorphosis of the Gods, Central European Gothic Sculpture, Georges Didi-Huberman, Krumlov Madonna of Krumlov, Marcel Duchamp, Virgin Coronation of Notre Dame Cathedral, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

The Gods in art-abandoning the kingdom of shadows

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux: The greatest mystery is not that we should be tossed by chance amongst the profusion of matter and the welter of the stars; it is, rather, that within this prison we are able to draw from ourselves images … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Malraux Metamorphosis of the Gods, art blog, Donald Kuspit, Georges Didi-Huberman, Les Echecs Amoureaux manuscript, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

return of the sacred

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dave

The Gods in art. Andre Malraux in his Metamorphosis of the Gods sought the key to humankind’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art… The return of the Sacred. Byzantium rises in jeweled gloom- the apostle pictured … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albert Camus, Andre Malraux, Andre Malraux Metamorphosis of the Gods, daniel boorstin, Donald Kuspit, Georges Didi-Huberman, Holland Cotter, Les Echecs Amoureaux, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Oscar Wilde | Leave a comment

ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Dave

There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Bostom, benjamin disraeli, Benny Morris Historian, Benzion Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, doug saunders globe and mail, Fouad Ajami, Golden Age of Muslim Spain, Heinrich Graetz, Jane Gerber, Maimonides, Maimonides in Egypt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Montesquieu, Moritz Steinschneider, Nicky Larkin director, Pierre Bayle, Piet Mondrian, Robert Wistrich, Shlomo Dov Goiten, Voltaire | Leave a comment

and the beat drones on

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Dave

The war on terror. Its long way from those hobby remote controlled planes of forty years ago with 1200 horsepower twenty-eight foot wingspan weapons of today. The aesthetics of the war on terror, frightingly, resemble the artistic sensibilities of Marinetti’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, bauhaus design, Dada Art, Drone warfare, Filippo Marinetti, IAF heron TP, Israel Fisher Institute, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pakistan drone strikes, Peter W. Singer, Steve Paikin, Yemen drone strikes | 1 Comment

anemic relief

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: in 1926 , marcel duchamp made a short film using his invention/creation of roto-reliefs. he called this film “anemic cinema”. i have no idea what sort of soundtrack it original had (i assume maddening), but this music … Continue reading →