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passively complicit outrage
There are a number of near non-resolvable dilemmas that artists face in representing the holocaust in their creations. It addition to contributing a broader and profound understanding of the complexities of this tragedy, there are other considerations such as whether … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adorno, alan schechner, Bruno Ganz, carol zemel, Claude Lanzmann, Donald Kuspit, Elie Wiesel, Gottfried Helnwein, henryk ross, Jean Paul Sartre, Lee Miller photography, margaret bourke-white, Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, Theodor Adorno
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summer of discontent: is the end near?
” The nature of people is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.” ( Vico) People have no doubt been bemoaning the decadence of the times since the expulsion from the Garden. But what actually constitutes decadence … Continue reading
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Tagged Adorno, American Apparel advertising, American Apparel banned ad, anne brockinton, Arnold Toynbee, Bruce Mazlish, calvin klein advertising, Carolee Schneemann, henri Bergson, Max Horkheimer, Natacha Stolz, Oswald Spengler, robert m. lee, Russell Smith, the NRA, vico
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RHINOS, PICADORS & MINOTAURS
”Picasso had never been a political artist, and as Jung noted, his images seemed increasingly to withdraw from objective reality and primarily reflected some inner psychic state that he was trying to work out on canvas. He made no war-related … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Aaron Ross, Adorno, Andrew Wyeth, Carl Jung, Dali, Herschel B. Chipp, Jean Dubuffet, Leonard Baskin, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Picasso Guernica, Salvador dali, Spanish Civil War, Spanish fascism, Theodor Adorno, Velasquez, Vermeer
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Ambiguities of Modernist Ecstasy
”…the one who comes walking is Chaplin who brushes against the world like a slow meteor even when he seems to be at rest; The imaginary landscape that he brings along is the meteor’s aura which gathers here in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Adorno, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, George Orwell, Mark Jenkins, Monsieur Verdoux, Theodor Adorno
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Disenchanted With the Jargon of Laughter
… a false sense of liberation masking blind conformity to a cruel social order. That in sum is the view of the comedic arts from Theodore Adorno (1903-1969), philosopher, musicologist and culture expert. These arts fell into what Adorno termed … Continue reading
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Tagged Adorno, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Mark Jenkins, Theodor Adorno
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