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a country doctor: chasing the maid through the gallery

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Dave

It is another odd Kafka story: A Country Doctor. And the story of another peculiar fellow: Bernard Berenson. The aesthete and art dealer/pundit of late nineteenth-early twentieth century who promoted and profited from selling Italian Renaissance art to the deep … Continue reading →

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splitting off a part of themselves

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

Well, Slavoj Zizek did say that Gandhi was more violent than Hitler. And Marcel Duchamp, according to Donald Kuspit was a terrorist like Hitler; Historical revisionism and the branding of the dictator? … …A Turkish TV commercial has sparked international … Continue reading →

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lust for life

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Dave

To shock the viewers into opening their eyes. The principle objective of Boris Lurie and his “No” art movement was to bring back into art the subject of real life, to free it from the slavery of ownership that had … Continue reading →