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identity on the high plains
It was while studying the Sioux and Yurok Indians that Erik Erikson was drawn into an analysis of syndromes that were outside the norms established by standard psychoanalytic theories, yet seemd to also project are more universal insecurity and neuroses … Continue reading →
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Tagged barnett newman, Bob Hope, Edward Curtis American Indian, erik h. erikson, Jackson Pollock
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make yourself a face
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” So said Hamlet- and not a bad idea at that, If you want to look winsome, or gruesome, but in any case awesome, here are a few pointers… “The … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alaska Tlingit mask, Andre Breton masks, barnett newman, Egypt mask Horus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Masks of Mexico, Mexico tiger mask, Nilotic deities, Pablo Picasso masks, Queen Elizabeth I mask, Queen Elizabeth mask, Samuel Pepys, Seneca Indian mask, Shakespeare Hamlet masks, Venetian Masks
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everything is broken
Narrative momentum. The very element lacking in our daily life. Are sort seems to be what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics” ; making new out of the scrap heap of discard, an early perception of appropriation and genre bending that … Continue reading →
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, barnett newman, Bob Dylan Everything is Broken, Brian Brake, Charles Baudelaire, David Amram, Emile Blanche, Francis Bacon, Jacques Emile Blanche, Jean Cocteau, Larry Rivers, Leslie Carey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Tristan Tzara, Walter Benjamin
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nude awakenings
Quarrels, separation, arguments, spats, plenty of yelling and screaming, sobbing and tears. The male artist and the nude has, as defined by modernism and then post-modernism, a contrapuntal relationship for the most part; the discordant seeking to resolve issues in … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anders Zorn, barnett newman, Claude Monet, David Park art, Elmer Bischoff, Francesco Bonami, hermann broch, Jackson Pollock, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucian Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Maurizio Cattelan, richard diebenkorn, Vanessa Beecroft, Wilhelm Worringer
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yells of awe and anger
The death instinct laying claim. Death making a deposit on even the most modest and humble aspirations, dragging us over the abyss back to the primal aesthetic root; as Nietsche said, if you look at the abyss long it begins … Continue reading →
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Tagged barnett newman, Donald Kuspit, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, leon wieseltier, Mark Rothko, odd nerdrum, rudoff baranik, thomas hess
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hard to spot betrayal
From a very extensive review of Donald Kuspit’s The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist which in part, dismantles Kuspit’s argument and by extension also reinforces much of what is written. The problem is that Kuspit is a near genius, collecting … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andy Warhol, barnett newman, Billy Wilder, Donald Kuspit, emmet cole, Julian Schnabel, Kazimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Marilyn Monroe, mark kostabi, Mark Rothko, Martin Heidegger, michael sladek, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, sean scully, Wassily Kandinsky, wayne owens, willem de Kooning
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light beyond the sinister rhetoric of gender
The sinister rhetoric of gender. It seems to rationalize a sublime fear of the dreaded anxiety of disorganized organic being. The absurdity of the masculine warrior figure. But what is the individual if not a mass of disorganized form, a … Continue reading →
beyond desire : unbound
In our society which rewards hard vulgar glamour, pixelized abstractions of the fetish and negates the value of sublime soft beauty, is it possible to escape the cheaply profane? Is modernism’s purpose the destruction of beauty and the pursuit of … Continue reading →
just the cost of doin’ business?
It always seems to arouse the public ire when publicity depicts the sexualization of children, especially in the most flagrant of cases. However, the problem is so deeply rooted, its almost exceptional that the egregious cases are relatively minimalized. Looking … Continue reading →
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
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Tagged barnett newman, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, elle fanning, esther blueburger, Gustave Courbet, haille steinfeld, hermann broch, Jean Kilbourne, jours apres lunes, Robert Graham, robert graham sculpture, robert stoller, sophie morin
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garbage in-garbage out
The imperial infants.A baby formula, pablum, to convert sometimes vague, sometimes intense, but always complex emotions into a kind of trouble-free zone, a la-la land of pretend. Kitsch. The temptation. The seduction of idealized desire; to replace a higher and … Continue reading →
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Tagged barnett newman, Carolee Schneemann, Clement Greenberg, david wojnarowicz, Eugene Delacroix, frank stella, gilbert and george, hermann broch, jack spector, Josef Fritzl, Marcel Duchamp, odd nerdrum, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Vanessa Beecroft, Walter Benjamin
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