Tag Archives: Viktor Frankl

client and customer: freebies on the family

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dave

Olympia is one of the most famous paintings, one that could say marked the iconic launch of the modern era in art. The background to the work may be seen in Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil, a very pessimistic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Germaine Greer, Gustave Caillebotte, janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, John Sloan, Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Freud, suzanne vega, suzanne vega luka, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

force feeding a permeable society

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dave

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 →

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pick and choose

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

The tedious daily routine. Boredom. Boring vulgar ennui. Is there a bestiality and justice forever irreparable? The difference between culture and barbarity perhaps being part of the same tragic destiny. Is there a difference between culture and predation?… …The representation … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, guilana bruno, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

charity is the greatest luxury

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dave

The poverty industry. Reinforcing destitution and economic ruin wherever it plants its well heeled foot. The spin is all about helping the poor reach empowerment. Ending the viscous cycle.But really, as Thorstein Veblen observed over a hundred years ago, most … Continue reading →

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occupy the authentic

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Dave

Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading →

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grey tones: before the law

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Dave

…show an unmistakable love of death — a romance with death, indeed, a seduction by death, in which life seems beside the point. The vacuum of feeling. The vacuum of void, of loss, of death. Lifelessness. A broken will to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged anselm kiefer, Franz Kafka, Goethe, Goethe Faustina, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, Joseph Beuys, Max Brod, Robert Crumb, robert jay lifton, Viktor Frankl | Leave a comment

new vision of visions: the inner need

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

What is meant by spiritual experience? Not evident in the era of post-modernism, Chris Hitchens, and the dubious pursuit of art as a spiritual experience. Still, there is a necessity to avoid standardization and leave an artistic scar so to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst, Ernest Becker, Franz Marc, Gustav Landauer, Henri Matisse, Jeff Koons, Martin Buber, richard stratton, silvano arieti, Viktor Frankl, Wassily Kandinsky, William James | Leave a comment

self-portrait

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Dave

Self fashioning. The self-portrait has a dual role. It is both the result of artistic creation and a pictorial representation of self-exploration.Concepts of gender and status always lurk just below the surface. Its the complexity of the elusive identity. Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, gavin turk, joseph koerner, mark manders, Otto Dix, self portraits, Viktor Frankl | Leave a comment

betrayal : warming hands around the pyre

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

Some twisted ideology, getting the upper hand on common sense. But, then to some common sense is…..Is there a possibility of living outside of violence? Is pessimism an option option for thinking? Hope and despair,much like the seeming opposites of … Continue reading →

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songs of love and hate: shoot the boer

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Dave

Is rap music a cultural commodity basically to titillate and spice up the mayonnaise and white bread diet of the white audience? The hyper-masculine enlivening experiences within a dominant, essentially conservative, consumerist, racist and militant preponderant white society with its … Continue reading →