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humor in art: hurt idealism
It would seem that humour and style are inseparable. But humour itself is not-never was-mere jocularity. Humour is a way of feeling about life, and when humour is great it is almost never without one of its opposite moods- tenderness, … Continue reading
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
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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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collapse of the soul: the flux of the IT
He could never really control what he did or what he wrote. Artaud said these defects of form were often rescued from complete nothingness. The raw results attributed to ” a collapse of the soul at its center, a kind … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Charlie Sheen, Erich Fromm, Georg Groddeck, heinrich maria darvinghausen, Jacques Derrida, Lawrence Durrell, Oskar Kokoschka, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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ART AS HELL IN A HAND-CART: The New Objectivity?
“The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.” …”All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.” (Walter Benjamin )…”A work of art carries its defence within itself.” ( Jean Cocteau). Entartete Kunst … Continue reading
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Tagged Cesar Klein, Erich Nolde, Georg Swarzenski, Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, Helen Webberley, J.K. Harrell, Jankel Adler, Jean Cocteau, Johannes Itten, John Zorn, Julie Gladstone, Kathe Kollwitz, Marc Chagall, Max Pechstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, Steven Lehrer, Walter Benjamin
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WEIMAR AND THE VIOLENCE OF AMNESIA: Trope of a Troubled Burial
Accusations of elitism, populous slanders of the word as pejorative have been unleashed as aprt of the American cultural landscape in this season of discontent. Can we take lessons form the Weimar Republic? The right wing tone of academia in … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Birkle, August Sander, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Ernst Junger, Georges Bataille, Hegel Philosopher, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, Irving Wohlfahrt, Jay Winter, Jeanne Mammen, Martin Buber, Oskar Kokoschka, Pierre Missac, Stefan George, Stephane Moses, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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WEIMAR ARCADE: Shoot the Hypnotist First
Or is the hypnotist merely the decoy, the puppet of even greater evil? The Weimar resemblance? Its nervous, alienated, and often brilliant culture can seem uncomfortably like our own. But, is the sickness that killed the German Republic of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertram M. Gross, Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Ed Driscoll, Eric D. Weitz, Erich Maria Remarque, John Heartfield, Julien Benda, Kurt Weill, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Michael Brenner, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Thomas Mann
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VIENNA & MISGUIDED GENIUS: Ambiguous Dreams and Joyful Apocalypse
Although scholars agreed that Vienna was not the only place where Modernism achieved sweeping successes, it was still common practice to regard “Vienna as the focal point of European Modernism” . Scholars consider that European Modernism reached its purest and most concentrated expression in Vienna … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Egon Schiele, Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Kafka, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, H.L. Mencken, Hermann Bahr, Hermann Kurzke, Mahler, Max Nordau, Nina Hagen, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Altenberg, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, The Good Soldier Schweik, Thomas Mann
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GOODNIGHT VIENNA: Vagabonds Exiled to a Dark Void
Early twentieth-century Viennese modernity, obsessed with identity in crisis, was especially preoccupied with the play between external appearances and internal dimensions of the self. How could it not? No doubt, all roads eventually lead to Freud as part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Loos, Alfred Kubin, Alma Mahler, Angela Dilkey, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Egon Schiele, Emil Brix, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Braque, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Karl Popper, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Robert S. Wistrich
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OLD VIENNA OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Psychic Conflict, Anxiety and Hysteria
In a letter written in 1892 to Wilhelm Fliess, Freud made a remark, ” No neurasthenia or analogous neurosis exists without a disturbance in the sexual function.” “I am pretty well alone here in tackling the neuroses. They regard me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Alma Schindler, Angela Dilkey, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bruce Beresford, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, Franz Werfel, Friederich Austerlitz, George Beard, Gustav Klimdt, Joan Arehart-Treichel, Josef Breuer, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Klimdt, Linda Simon, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Nordau, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Gay, Ray Monk, Robert S. Wistrich, Schoenberg, Sigmund Freud, Tom Lehrer, Wilhelm Fliess
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