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banality between the sheets: sucking on being
It has to be remembered that in the pecking order of European jewry before WWII, Germany was the absolute top of the hierarchy.There was no secular educational infrastructure to speak of in the East. The brethren from the Eastern ghettos … Continue reading
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Tagged Berel Lang, Bernard Wasserstein, boris lurie, carlin romano, edith birken artist, elzbieta ettinger, emmanuel faye, Franz Kafka, godley and Creme, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Hoch, hugo ott, jeremy waldron, John Heartfield, karl jaspers, kate fodor, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, max mueller, nathaniel popper, Ron Rosenbaum, victor farais, walter frank, william h. honan
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walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between
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
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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
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life is a silent scream
Ingrid Pitt. For some the horror was never over. Torn between building a life while repressing the horrors experienced. As a child sent to the Stutthof Concentration camp. How can one survive? The only thing that makes sense are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Bill Plympton, bill plympton beyond the forest, boris lurie, Elie Wiesel, helene weigel, ingrid pitt, Ken Russell Gothic, nils blommer, perry chen, Sigmund Freud, sylvia plath daddy, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Frankl, viktor frankl logotherapy, Walter Benjamin, yehuda nir
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all the butcher’s helpers
In socio critical terms, the emphasis is always to focus on the victims.Perhaps our relation to them. All is enhanced and detracted by the problematics of memory. Very little stares squarely at the locus of the problem which is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Plympton, boris lurie, cornel west, Donald Kuspit, dr. jud newborn, gilles paquet-brenner, ingrid pitt, jerome witkin, kevin sean michaels, kristin scott thomas, perry chen, sarah's key, serge joncour, tatiana de rosnay, Walter Benjamin
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evil, what evil?
Can the world be mended of fragmentation? Is it our destiny to be treading water between connection, unity and oneness and highly radical, morbid and death infused darkness … de-realization, disorientation, and fragmentation. But also Klein’s epigraph to The Second … Continue reading
memory and remembrance: disrupting comfortable convention
Artist Steve Reich and his recording label Nonesuch have been raked over the proverbial coals this past week since previewing artwork for Reich’s WTC 9/11 recording by the Kronos Quartet. It depicts the second plane going into WTC based on … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, beate passow, blalla w. hallmann, boris lurie, Donald Kuspit, Hans Haacke, masatomo kuriya, Raul Hilberg, richard kazis, sam goodman, sam goodman sculpture, Steve Reich, Walter Benjamin
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traces of wiped-out existences
how is holocaust art received in the land “of the perpetrators”? Well that depends… In a way, its the politics of remembrance and memory.Or at least the problematics. Memory is often the theme with the focus not on what is … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur c. canto, boris lurie, brett ashley kaplan, christian boltanski, ernst nolte, esther shalev-gerz, gunter demnig, harold marcuse, inge stephan, james e. young, jochen gerz, leah rosh, manfred zach, Michel Foucault, peter eisenman, Raul Hilberg, reinhard matz, Ronald Reagan, rudolf herz, Theodor Adorno
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boris lurie: distrubing the ceremony
How was holocaust themed art received in the “land of the perpetrators”? Well, For over two decades everyone tried to forget. It was a cultural amnesia and the path of least resistance. Make money. Raise your family. And don’t go … Continue reading
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Tagged beatre klarsfeld, bernhard vesper, boris lurie, eike geisel, ernst nolte, fassbinder veronika voss, gunnar reski, hanna hoch, Hannah Arendt, harald fricke, John Heartfield, lea rosh, manfred zach, Orson Welles, Raul Hilberg, sam goodman, stanley fisher, Werner Fassbinder
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decoys of perception: poetry after …..
Could poetry be written after Auschwitz? Theodor Adorno’s famous assertion did not necessarily mean that no poetry could be created about the holocaust. Its a touchy grey zone; a metaphorical voyage of the damned where like Odysseus you tie yourself … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, Art Spiegelman, art spiegelman maus, boris lurie, clayton patterson, david h. katz, David katz, Donald Kuspit, elaine martin, eli mandel, emmanuel levinas, Irving Layton, Jacques Derrida, Michael Franti, Michael Greenstein, Raul Hilberg, seymour mayne, Walter Benjamin
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