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Tag Archives: Robert Mapplethorpe
avoid talking head syndrome
Brilliant Disguise. Talking head syndrome that grim reaps the shadows and obscurity that misting ancient time has gathered as blanket to the covering light.
redondo speech
Meme mash-up that incorporates the poetry of Pete Brown, Patti Smith and that inner you yearning to break-out and expand the limits of the universe. All in the good name of Madame Pickwick. Is it intrinsic, does it appear to … Continue reading
corpse poetics
Working with death as an aesthetic. Is it purely the shocking or a continuation of the gothic and the more macabre elements of romanticism, in the tracks of Henry Fuseli passing through Goya’s horrors of war, Kafka hybrid-human creatures and … Continue reading
birds of prey
Very angry birds. Hard to believe. In fact, superficially, it triggers disbelief. Can we blame the system of capitalism, neo-liberalism imposed on third-world countries, or rather perversely, is this their Thorstein Veblen response of raising status and distinction by being … Continue reading
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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prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper
Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caravaggio, Donald Kuspit, Jasper Johns, Jean Genet, Jerry Saltz, lari pittman, Lord Byron, nigel williams BBC, Oscar Wilde, pierre bourdieu, Robert Crumb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, the maids 1974, William Burroughs
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dionysus: an ecstatic death with a directed soul
So now, as always, Dionysus shows himself in his traditional forms- alluring,pansexual; madness reigns, an urge to dance comes over people, a trance inducing beat can be heard from the mountains, and the wine is uncorked. But if Dionysus is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alain danielou, Charles Baudelaire, chuck berry, Donald Kuspit, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Louise Bourgeois, Lovis Corinth, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, nick tosches, robert christgau, Robert Mapplethorpe, robert palmer
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EFFING THIS & EFFING THAT: ART & POLITICS OF FUDDLE DUDDLE
Puritanism: as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ( H.L. Mencken ) Fornication Under Consent of the King. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Fuckedandfarfromhome. The F-Bomb ….”How do you people really feel about doing it? Isn’t that about … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Andres Serrano, Andrew Rohn, Buzz Bissinger, Catherine Cappellaro, Cathy Malchiodi, Country Joe MacDonald, David Dunlap, Dorothy Parker, Ed Sullivan, Geoffrey Nunberg, H.L. Mencken, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jesse Helms, Jonah Lehrer, Ken Burns, Kenneth Tynan, Lenny Bruce, Norman Mailer, Northrop Frye, Piero Manzoni, Robert Lane Green, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steve Anderson, Steve martin, Steven Pinker, Steven Saus, Tiny Tim, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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