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just a clean cut kid
….Crimes and punishment? The Samer Issawi saga. Unrepentant, defiant, a blood-lust for the infidel and an inferno of anger he seems willing to go down for the sake of martyrdom. In our digital age where the reproduction of “news” is … Continue reading
hessel: stuck down gideon’s well
Peculiar man this Stephane Hessel. The man of no fixed address in the spiritual sphere, floating vaguely between strains of Jewish thought and Christianity who grounded himself by welding his soul onto onto the deck of likely the ship of … Continue reading
somebody’s baby
The Surrealist movement was founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and extensively influenced by … Continue reading
the well masked person: avoiding nature’s product
Face to face. Not satisfied with nature’s product? Unsympathetic to your reflection in the mirror? Looking for more than artistry or resemblance? How about a mask? A holy picture of your inner self, to better align that precise, albeit mistaken … Continue reading
shelter of a “false face”
In our own puerile way we sometimes take sanctuary behind impenetrable eyeglasses. For years, old and young have been wearing dark spectacles at all waking hours and in the gloomiest of places. And there are always men who rediscover another … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Breton, Andre Breton masks, Arthur Schopenhauer, Enrico Donati, Louis V. Shotridge, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Ernst, Peabody Museum Yale, Samuel Pepys, Surrealism, Tlingit masks, wolfgang paalen
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deep philosophy or conceptual quip?
The greatest philosopher in modern art? Or did the art world make him, artificially construct him into a “readymade” himself, the philosopher who would trash tradition and under the pretext of modernism and the new, engage in the kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Bernard von Lindenau, Damien Hirst, francis p. nauman, Giotto, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jeff Koons, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, mark polizzotti, Martin Heidegger, rudolf herz, The Enlightenment
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leon trotsky: hipster
Member of the rat pack. The poster is almost ninety years old and does evoke a Trotsky as a sort of hipster of the digital age; rappy, street savvy, beat box man who bears a smattering of resemblance to Sammy … Continue reading
a marxist built for 2
Trotsky in love. Whatever his initial motivations, Bronstein’s revolutionary career began under appropriately romantic auspices. He was introduced by school friends into a radical discussion group conducted by a self-educated Czech gardener named Franz Shvigovsky. Though the group’s subversive activities … Continue reading
medieval freedom: bypassing divine ordinance
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The old wild men were more uncanny and unpredictable than they were given credit for. The old order was not that orderly after all. There is no such thing as … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andre Breton, david finn photographs, Donald Kuspit, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marxist art theory, Mayer Schapiro, medieval art, mozarabic art at silos, romanesque sculpture souillac, souillac and silos
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