Tag Archives: Antonin Artaud

cable street: they shall not pass

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Dave

Cable Street was a battle in 1936 in London in which Jews, Irish, Leftists and citizens waged a pitched battle with police to arrest a planned march of fascists through a predominantly jewish area. The police were unsuccessful in breaking … Continue reading →

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compromised complex structures

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Dave

A de-idealization of the human figure. A coldness. An absence of a humanizing purpose. A bit of spitefulness and the malicious thrown in for effect. Willem de Kooning continues to divide critics and pubic. On on part, a misogynist, sexist … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Clement Greenberg, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Harold Rosenberg, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kazimir Malevich, paddy johnson, Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

when the grim reaper won’t leave

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Dave

A bit problematic to be German. Still. The long arc of history is easily within an arm’s reach of the old Germany, tortured, and with a romantic sensibility of subject confronted with a bleak Germanism that marked the new realism. … Continue reading →

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if you meet a shaman on the road…

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dave

“From the cavern, man does not like to stir” – W. Benjamin. Where is the scariest place to live. It may just be inside of us. But we love to project…..Antonin Artaud studied the Tarahumara indians in Mexico in 1936,who … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Joni Mitchell, Michel Foucault, pranormal psychology, Roland Barthes, shamanism, tarahumara indians mexico, the paranormal view, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

genet: delaying the punch-line

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Dave

Jean Genet:”A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness” Genet’s stage is a space where politics and metaphysics collide, and partly fuse.Some of it sticks to the wall. Like … Continue reading →

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too long in exile: worn out welcome

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Dave

Brecht in exile. He wrote movie scripts and tried to sell them but, except for his scenario for Hangmen Also Die, Brecht sold nothing. He seems to have persistently missed the fact that a great many of the ideas he … Continue reading →

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brecht: cleaning out the stale slag of feeling

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Dave

The why of Bertolt Brecht’s popularity in America has always been a bit complicated. One way or another, the United States held a personal fascination for Brecht, and his attitude towards it developed through two distinct phases. As a young … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, boyd tomkin, Charlie Chaplin, christopher caudwell, deidra gwyther, don coker art, erwin piscator, George Grosz, helene weigel, john doyle director, martin esslin, martin esslin brecht, pacifism, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Dave

Does dog really exist? Has anyone ever gone mad not being able to think of something to think about?…There is something much deeper in operation here than a simple, albeit innovative mastery of logic and mathematical reasoning. These are verbal … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alice cooper, Antonin Artaud, boris lurie, cy twombley, david tudor, dyslexia, jaakko hintikka, Jan van Eyck, Jasper Johns, john denver, Josef Albers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, Robert Rauschenberg, Walter Gropius, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

iggy and artaud

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Dave

Does the world need a new shaman? There are some slides on the net which show Iggy Pop and the Stooges playing at a high school on Michigan in December of 1970. The connection of Iggy with Artaud is always … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Carlos Castaneda, cecile schramme, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, julian beck living theater, Lou Reed, The Stooges, Theatre of Cruelty | Leave a comment

kahlo: sensuous transmutation and visionary longing

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dave

Undaunted. Defiant. Frida Kahlo is the textbook case of suffering for her art and transforming that suffering into art. Still, after all these years, her reputation seems to absorb new strands of thought which only augment the interest and intrigue … Continue reading →