Tag Archives: carl andre

burying the dead ends

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Dave

The avant-garde revolution was over. Ironically, their work also signified the end of avant-gardism and the onset of post-modernism. The avant-garde had become history. Its contradictions, the emptiness, the triumph of form over substance, essentially its transformation into rote kitsch … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adolf Loos, anselm kiefer, arthur c. danto, carl andre, Clement Greenberg, emily dickinson, georg baselitz, Georgia O'keefe, judy chicago, Kazimir Malevich, Roy Lichtenstein, sigmar polke | Leave a comment

escape to the clumsy arrangements

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Dave

The aesthetization of political understanding. After all, kitsch is the dominant culture, almost the only culture. Its effects are characterized by immediacy, an ingratiating nature,a form devoid of ambiguity and a cuteness marked by superficiality. Sometimes however, and somewhat disconcertingly, … Continue reading →