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holocaust: shredding the heavenly decree
Was Mahmoud Abbas right in saying the Zionist movement had links with the Nazis before World War II? That is not in question, but the assertion that the Nazis were dancing with joy with the fiddler on the roof over … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba Eban, Alan Hart, alan schechner, Claude Lanzmann, Edwin Black writer, Hannah Arendt, Hayden Schlossberg, James Cameron, Jon Hurwitz, Josh Hasten, Leni Brenner, Martin Gilbert, Martin Heidegger, Naem Giladi, Paul Bogdanor, Shraga Elam, Tadeusz Kantor, Yehuda Bauer, Zeev Jabotinsky
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sixty-four
Sixty-four. The number of squares on a chessboard. The age of the modern state of Israel. An auspicious sign being as it is intrinsically linked to the Golden Mean and the divine proportion. Chess is an ancient game combining skill … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Camp David Peace Accords, Claims Conference Jewish Foundation, Giulio Meotti, Greg Schneider Holocaust fund, Holocaust Survivors' Fund, Israel Independence Day, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Julius Berman, Luba Kramrish, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, March of the Living, Menachen Begin
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what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading
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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war and conflict: those pauses that refresh
Its the ultimate kitsch product. Coke. All style and form. No substance. Something with multiple layers of meaning exposing a vast fictionality of the object situated in a space between reality and illusion. Kitsch. Both imitative and its negation, kitsch … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Alexandre Trauner, Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Courbet, Henry Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, Milan Kundera, Norman Rockwell, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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evil, what evil?
Can the world be mended of fragmentation? Is it our destiny to be treading water between connection, unity and oneness and highly radical, morbid and death infused darkness … de-realization, disorientation, and fragmentation. But also Klein’s epigraph to The Second … Continue reading
is-real-thing: endless solutions
It is difficult to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue in anything approaching what could be termed a “common sense” way. The conventional wisdom is that we are even handed, or that some form of pseudo-historical junk science as religion “special status” … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, alan schechner, Claude Levi-Strauss, henry wentworth monk, ivan c. rand, joshua neustein, lester b. pearson, margaret bourke-white, ram katzir, Rick Salutin, roee rosen, sigalit landau, Stephen Harper, Tom Sachs, yves engler
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where the truth lies: what is “the real thing” ?
We are often convinced we are looking at a seamless and accurate depiction of reality and the shock involved is the realization that it is not quite so obvious as we thought… What are the boundaries of artistic representation and … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Art Spiegelman, Bell Hooks, Donald Kuspit, Gottfried Helnwein, holocaust art, Jennifer Peto, Jonathan Kay national Post, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, matthew frye jacobson, richard kazis, rudolf herz, terry fincher, Tom Sachs, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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