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dada dum dada not so dum
Unsureness and confusion, in the sphere of Dada opinion, became a positive value, and one that had lethal effect of what could be termed systems of hierarchy and classification. Like Alfred Jarry, dada postulated a “pataphysical” logic of absurdity that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Dada Art, John Heartfield, Max Ernst
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unwilled power of unreality
It is the gift of crystallizing inner experience that differentiates an artist from a mere craftsman or technician, and sometimes this crystallization takes place through the chemistry of some power unwilled or even unsuspected by the painter…. The most conspicuous … Continue reading
grammatical fears? try the fold-in method
The phrases “literary inhibitions” and “grammatical fears” are revealing as a sort of post-modern aesthetic that had their roots particularly in the jargon and anti-language of the Beat poets and writing as a performance art. in their crude way they … Continue reading
secretaries of state
The Society of the Spectacle. Pseudo events. The event becomes at best, an entertaining adjunct to the advertising and fundraising. The event is depersonalized and used to move product; stripped of its subjective meaning, the message becomes tailored to stimulate … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, buffett rule, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Miley Cyrus, Obama 2012, occupy wall street, pierre bourdieu, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Beecroft, Warren Buffett, Yves Klein
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A toast to dorian gray
Is our post-modern condition characterized by an instilling of youthfulness into an ancient world. A rejuvenation of creaky old bones. Baudelaire wrote of youth as a sort of priesthood, at least according to the young. Youth is a fetish, a … Continue reading
if our memory serves us well
The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading
forever young
To stay forever young. To defy aging. to somehow cheat the odds and glorify in a kind of infantilism; a taunting provocative sort of dissent, like children peeing on the living room carpet. We are definitely in a post-art age … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, John Heartfield, John Lennon Walls and Bridges, Lynn Stern, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, paul mccarthy, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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pataphysics of dead people: recycling the vendors
Advertising does really define our world. In the Western culture of entertainment, advertising assumes the role of both structure and content.We can fake our rage against the machine, but are constantly putting our paws in the cookie jar. The focus … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Caravaggio, catherine gudis, craig baldwin, French Situationist, Guy Debord, Herman Hesse, mark dery, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Ralph Nader, Ron English, ronald wayne, Steve Jobs, Theodore Roszak
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king for a day: take a pass on the cake
All the king’s men and women. Indeterminancy and inevitability, fortuity and fate.Sacred geometry and secret recipes. The chance of being king. Or is it chance? The chance of being king is charged with multiple and contradictory associations among of which … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Aristotle, Christopher Hitchens, cosmati floor, cosmati pavement, Douglas Kellner, Guy Debord, Inigo Jones, james frazer the golden bough, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Middleton, King James I, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince William, XTC Andy Partridge
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mind games:imagining a world without gravity
When the mind makes an object out of a state of consciousness it returns to a complex matrix of the senses, belief and effort, into separate and divided processes. It seems to be the destiny of all seekers to desire … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, annie leibovitz, D.H. Lawrence, Elvis Presley, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Lennon, john lennon imagine, Jordan B. Peterson, May Pang, plastic ono band, ronald de sousa, Yoko Ono
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