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surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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unconscious aggression: the blind minotaur
“When one has no character, one must have a method.” (Camus ) How can one reconcile such an atrocious human being with art? Unless its an art that glorifies the ugly, the sadistic; an impulse drunk on misogyny that craved … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albert Camus, Clement Greenberg, Douglas Cooper, Friedrich Nietzsche, h. blum, kincaid paintings, Lyonel Feininger, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Richard Wagner, roland penrose, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, walter kaufmann
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variations of destructive mockery
Overrated? Is it true that Picasso could pathologically destroy, or sabotage paintings of the old masters by sullying and subverting them? Is it simple playfulness,a prank,a mockery, a tribute, or an attempt to surpass the original? Strip Picasso of his … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Diego Velazquez, Donald Kuspit, Douglas Cooper, freddie rokem, john bratby, Lyonel Feininger, melanie klein, miles w. mathis, Pablo Picasso, pierre cabane, Rembrandt, roland penrose, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, susan buck-morss, susan galassi, Walter Benjamin
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ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination
It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Andre Breton, Arsene Alexandre, August Macke, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Douglas Cooper, Emil Nolde, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Roh, Gauguin, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Herbie Hancock, Herschel B. Chipp, Herschel Browning Chipp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Matisse, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Pechstein, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Seurat, Sigmund Freud, Signac, Virginia Chandler, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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