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Tag Archives: Philip Guston
ragged glory
The first impression is of some weekend painter with a crude, vulgar, unskilled hand depicting mercenary goons, violence, power, subjugation, and a whole stock of themes from the politically correct almanac. Once that prejudice falls away there is something quite … Continue reading
ethics and idle fancy: in the attic
Kafka was as much about non-arrival at destinations as he was about non-belonging. In any event there are problems of destination and leaving, coming and going often resemble each other. But as Kafka seems to figure, the pull of Jews … Continue reading
Miro and the green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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back to the garden: Miro and green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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