Tag Archives: Alexandre Trauner

war and conflict: those pauses that refresh

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dave

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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the republic on the flying trapeze

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dave

the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading →

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MIMETIC ART & THE SWEET BLACK ANGELS

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Dave

”Paris est si petit pour les gens  gens comme nous qui s’aiment d’un aussi grand amour” ( Children of Paradise ) Children of Paradise was conceived as a film spectaculaire in the fullest sense of the term. It is a … Continue reading →

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