Tag Archives: robert stoller

sandusky: labyrinth of fourth and long

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Dave

Sandusky is a kind of minotaur who sacrificed human victims. This primal, nihilistic rejection in which nearly everything is lost, shattered, despised, mocked and unrepairable. It suggests the sadism uses and abuses the body as an identification with a nightmarish … Continue reading →

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a little piece of heaven?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

Prostrate anxiety? the thingamagig complex. Objectifying the human body as part of splitting off the corporeal from the spiritual and convicting poor Eros of demon status, branding her forever with the unfavorable P.R. she has had to endure. The short … Continue reading →

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visiting the ladies

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

What seems real is in fact an illusion created by one’s own desire. It was a perceptive insight, one that would go onto helping define the modern age, the mediation of our lives by images, our relationship with consumerism and … Continue reading →

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wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

Was the impulse of modern art to destroy beauty, to pitch renaissance notions of beauty into the dumpster? Behind De Kooning, was there a profound and embedded hated of women? He did say “flesh was the main reason oil paint … Continue reading →

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absurdities: the masculine warrior figure

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave

Vanity is usually pretty revolting. An auto-glorification. narcissism. But as a minor saving grace, it can aspire to a certain honesty. But, for some reason, the relationship between vanity and worshiping money remains an enduring legacy, as if the power … Continue reading →

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just the cost of doin’ business?

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dave

It always seems to arouse the public ire when publicity depicts the sexualization of children, especially in the most flagrant of cases. However, the problem is so deeply rooted, its almost exceptional that the egregious cases are relatively minimalized. Looking … Continue reading →

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olympia : defiantly real people

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dave

Perversion as the implicit dynamic of all modern art? The underlying factor of fueling the entire art/entertainment complex as an effort of a manageable and incremental representation of the perverse. Almost all modernism can be equated with the perverse both … Continue reading →

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disney punch: utopia as patriarchy?

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Art

The common features of human life have been around a long a long time. Around the block many, many times. Ever since humankind began to make a human world for its habitation, that world has been shared and divided along … Continue reading →