Tag Archives: Boris Cyrulnik

the saturday evening you’re toast

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Dave

Is disavowal repressing something unbearable, or at least sublimating it something more palatable and socially acceptable? What often arises is the concept of innocence, a byproduct of this process of disavowal and reluctance to own up and acknowledge what one … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, da Vinci London Cartoon, Frans Hals, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinz Kohut, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Norman Rockwell, sarah kofman, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

kids play: just tickety-boo

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Dave

There is the theory of Walter Benjamin on the discarded object, the former fetish object of capitalist consumer culture that becomes re-animated and re-contextualized after attaining junk and discard status. Transformed into a toy. It becomes re-emancipated with revolutionary potential … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Randy Newman, vintage toys, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

client and customer: freebies on the family

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dave

Olympia is one of the most famous paintings, one that could say marked the iconic launch of the modern era in art. The background to the work may be seen in Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil, a very pessimistic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Germaine Greer, Gustave Caillebotte, janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, John Sloan, Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Freud, suzanne vega, suzanne vega luka, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

old wild men: sandwiches of them

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Dave

See it as a matrix of sensations.Mutable. Unfixed.Unhinged. Something of the child rubbing against the unknown world of the adult. Sometimes we have to go back to reach beyond the future, to be as children, and approach the objects of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged 10cc, Alfred North Whitehead, Boris Cyrulnik, eric stewart, godley and Creme, graham gouldman, Guy Debord, john bruinsma, john williams, Kazimir Malevich, Keith Moon, lol creme, michael newman, Paul Cezanne, ralph denyer, strawberry studios, trevor horn, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

Family Trees: Cut a few gnarly branches here and there

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Dave

A family tree, to many, is a precious link that provides roots for millions of the rootless. It seems all men and women of European origin cling to their ancestors as assiduously as would any mandarin of ancient China. At … Continue reading →