Tag Archives: D.H. Lawrence

whose face did he see?

There is a paradox to Henry Miller. The two Tropics books are among the foulest books ever written. Cancer is bad enough, but Capricorn gets worse as it goes on and reached depths of vileness which are really indescribable. Miller’s … Continue reading

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by another name

Attacking the enfranchised “unfit.” Purging society of those who do not measure up to the required standards of national efficiency, ( Henry Kissinger’s “useless eaters” ) or whatever euphemisms we may have to couch the theory of euthanasia, and the … Continue reading

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discarding the forced, formal and faked

Orgasms of nihilism. A typically contrarian view, and one that labels Picasso as a minor artist. Essentially, an attack on the formalism intrinsic to modernism which entails a crowding out, indeed suffocation of the spiritual content. Cubism, was after all, … Continue reading

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canto for a very old world order

Ezra Pound and Mussolini.The kind of hero worship that seems absurdly ridiculous today. Search for the father figure? Demented, this love for pathological killers recast as humanist heroes and purveyors of order and nobility in a world moving too fast … Continue reading

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karl and herbie

It’s an odd juxtaposition to be sure. Karl Marx and Walt Disney. Both probably are able some posit some form of historical progressivism but is it possible the Disney Corporation and Marx are somehow complicit in our current state when … Continue reading

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shafia: pet rats in a skinner box touch his lever

and so it is. Like Freud’s Totem and Taboo, we have an ape man living in groups dominated by an all powerful father who kept all women for his own exclusive sexual use and abuse. Unlimited, buffet style access to … Continue reading

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l’amour fou: abstract extreme ambivalence

Surrealism as an inherently anti-woman movement? The female body viewed as primitive machines designed socially,psychologically and mechanically to carry out primitive functions.This intensity and dept of a response to women was a rupture with traditional figurative art, a certain appropriation … Continue reading

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those were the days

In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by ‘postart’, a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal … Continue reading

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liberal bias: in-conscience of a liberal

The quintessential bleeding heart liberal, the kind of perverse sensibility guided by blinders and unwilling and ineffective in bringing about meaningful change. The establishment liberal , who according to Joseph Conrad, was a “moralist who betrayed rather than revealed the … Continue reading

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modigliani: humanizing the dream within the dream

Its an old question. Its manifestations are like sparks and fleeting, ambiguous forms capable of de-materialization. How do you reconcile the opposites between the sensual and the spiritual? Is defiance and disorder, as Modigliani seemed to imply, the only route … Continue reading

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