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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
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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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TRIVIAL PURSUITS & BOYS IN STRIPED SUITS
”However here we also get the first doubtful use of the Holocaust in Beatrice and Virgil. We are told that fewer than two per cent of Holocaust survivors ever tell of their ordeal. And so:’For his part, Henry now joined … Continue reading
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Tagged Aravind Adiga, Aravind Adiga The White Tiger, Brian Cuban, Casey Haskins, Charlie Chaplin, Eli Wiesel, George Orwell, George Orwell Animal Farm, Gerald Feldman, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust Fiction, Holocaust Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Boyne, John Self, Joseph Brean, Joseph Brean National Post, Lina Wertmuller, Lina Wertmuller Seven Beauties, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks The Producers, Roberto Benigni, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, Salman Rushdie, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Yann Martel, Yann martel Beatrice and Virgil, Yasunari Kawabata
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