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Tag Archives: paul mccarthy
swift kick in the keegster
Psst! Pass the bum wipe. Perversion seems intrinsic to modern art, at least at the split off side that gazes into the bowl of disavowal. And this has been so from the beginning; the long arc extending back to an … Continue reading
revolutionary bluff: pseudo event and image object
It began with Marcel Duchamp. From there it was down the slippery slope to the avant-gardizing and idealizing of the commodity as a form of esthetic entertainment. The inevitable evolution of market economics to recycle the commodity into various conceptual … Continue reading
forever young
To stay forever young. To defy aging. to somehow cheat the odds and glorify in a kind of infantilism; a taunting provocative sort of dissent, like children peeing on the living room carpet. We are definitely in a post-art age … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, John Heartfield, John Lennon Walls and Bridges, Lynn Stern, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, paul mccarthy, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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coz andy warhol sez
Are free market solutions the answer to public policy problems? A very divisive question to be sure. Much appears to depend on the degree of income disparity society is willing to tolerate, the level of corporate welfare taxpayers are willing … Continue reading
shutting out the dark area
Holding the traumatic moment; gripping it to prevent it from bounding into the realm of the spectacle. The culture of the spectacle, dazzled, doped and duped by its connection to technology where issues are dealt with as another aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged amy winehouse, Andrew Potter, Bruce Nauman, Claude Monet, eino kyla, F.Scott Fitgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Ellul, Leah McLaren, Lucian Freud, paul mccarthy, Robert Redford, Stephen Marche, the great gatsby
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feel the feeling from without: vulgar(t)
When dreams turn into a dark nightmare, a small flickering flame extinguishable by a baby’s breath. It’s the realization of a nihilistic endgame, but its causes, and controlling forces are not always tangible, the reality is not transparent and the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, Francis Picabia, Franz Kafka, Frederico Fellini, Hans Bellmer, Jeff Koons, Leautremont, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein
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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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a private necessity: embodied material culture
Its a simple act. But one charged with complex emotional meaning. But then everything connected with the body is complicated and related to such issues as anxiety, fear, money, self-esteem and sexuality; much of this is widely disseminated in modern … Continue reading
unwilling complicity
This is quite grotesque. It was written by Slavoj Zizek, an it is part of a discussion on distinguishing true emotion form the false, and true dignity,that elusive chalice, from the pre-digested, packaged clutter of modern life, known as kitsch. … Continue reading
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