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while my sword gently weeps
A shattering of certainty that had been shaky, even crumbling at best. The illusion beased on liberal enlightenment principles that peace was just at hand, and that reason and logic would bring out men’s better nature shaping a happy-ever-after ending … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Deir Yassin, Gideon Levy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Menachen Begin, MK Michael Ben Ari, Nitzan Alon, Polish anti-semitism, Sir Harold MacMichael, Ulpana Beit El, Voltaire The Enlightenment, Yair Shamir, Yitzhak Shamir, Yossi Sarid
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enlightenment by design: build a better world?
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Smith, Arthur Gobineau, Ben Grasso, Friedrich Nietzsche, giovanni battista vico, Herder linguist, Horace Walpole, John Maynard Keynes, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer, Paul Gauguin, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire
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full circle
Sometimes things become intertwined in a full circle that initially escapes us since the assumed understanding is based on enlightenment principles guided by the linear progression of science and technology where evolution is rational and explainable. In Donald Kuspit’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, Francis Bacon, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Norman Rockwell, odd nerdrum, Sarah Bernhardt
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a little face to face
Is it possible to be so politically correct that we end up chewing our own tail. Is there a realm within the politically correct that is not politically correct? Its been said that as long as there exists the dynamic … Continue reading
mad men
There was really no resemblance to social man. Artistically, a soul at war with the body in such visceral representations had heretofore gone unrepresented. The depiction of unreason in all its unfathomable, compelling, yet repulsive splendor. It was the beginning … Continue reading
flush hard: we’ve come a long way?
The cliche that newness has become. Its hard to argue with Donald Kuspit’s assertions on modern art, beginning with Marcel Duchamp’s Ready Mades as a confidence game, with the ready made being a surrogate for the female body. His bases … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andres Serrano, Anita Sarkeesian, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, francis m. naumann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Julian Schnabel, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, marshal berman, marshall berman, Michael Balint, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy, sidney janis, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen, tim wise, vincent desiderio
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coke: the it and id of it all
Pure nothingness.The embracing of empty contradictions. The fraternization of impossibilities. The essence of nothingness.Kitsch. It comes from a German word, or even perhaps Yiddish, to denote bad taste. In inexhaustible supply of cheap images to pacify the longings of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, billy wilder coca cola, herbert leupin, jacques-Alain Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, Martin Buber, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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client and customer: freebies on the family
Olympia is one of the most famous paintings, one that could say marked the iconic launch of the modern era in art. The background to the work may be seen in Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil, a very pessimistic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Germaine Greer, Gustave Caillebotte, janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, John Sloan, Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Freud, suzanne vega, suzanne vega luka, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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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