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hunters and collectors: carry that weight
For seemingly forever, sociologists, psychologists, and amateur pundits of all persuasions have tried to comprehend why people collect; from the Collyer brothers to Eli Broad, it appears a pointless yet universal pursuit at least on the logical surface irrational waters … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Maslow, ai weiwei, avital ronell, Collyer Brothers, Eli Broad, ellsworth kelly, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Borgnine, Hans Bellmer, Homer and Langley Collyer, Jackson Pollock, kraft-ebbing, mary boone, odd nerdrum, scott chinery, Sigmund Freud, steve shaviro, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin
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kicking the can down the road: again
There is no doubt that poverty is degrading, and through force, legislation, moral suasion,manipulation, blackmail, soft euthanasia, and “gaming” democracy and elementary social responsibility we have gloriously succeeded in creating the scenario for economic collapse and social and political insurrection. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Goodman, Bobby Seale, Camp Forest tent city, cornel west, Emile Durkheim, erskine nichol painter, erskine nicol painter, Ford Madox Ford, Frans Hals, frederick walker paintings, george elgar hicks, harry belafonte, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Luke Fildes, Martin Luther King, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, sir samuel luke fildes, Stephen Colbert, tavis smiley, ted sanderson, the Heritage Foundation, tim geithner, war on poverty
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fire fire! your moneys on fire
Should good art always make those in positions of power and privilege feel uncomfortable, squirmy, ill at ease and irritated by pangs of consciousness even if irregular. Or is an art that is ostensibly anti banking and money serve to … Continue reading
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Tagged alex schaefer artist, aubrey hodes, doug aitken, ed ruscha, Emile Durkheim, Felix Feneon, Gustav Metzger, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Luc Sante, Marcel Mauss, Martin Buber, michael landy breakdown, Nelson Mandela, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Signac, rivonia trial south africa, sam dwyer, steve reich wtc 9/11, stuart home, Tyler Green, Walter Benjamin
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closing the sacredness gap
There is a conjunction, a point of inflection between morality and emotion that translates itself into the political sphere in an almost predictable yet unsettling fashion. Its a zone where we can explain conservative electoral success while at the same … Continue reading
history undone:android basterds
A vision of the primeval past wandering out of an imaginary forest of pre-historic times, lost in quirk of time. Yes, its the same notorious auroch found in the cave of Lascaux in southern France. The ferocious wild ancestor of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Constantine, allan hall, auroch cattle, bobby sands, Charles Darwin, Emile Durkheim, eric vogelin, ernst haekl, fountain of life program, Francis Galton, Friedrich Nietzsche, joel whitebook, katie drummond, Lascaux Cave, lutz and heinz heck, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, Michel Houlebecq, Oswald Spengler, paul theroux, Sigmund Freud, simon de bruxelles, the island of lost souls movie, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hobbes
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A LANGUAGE OF TRICKS & TREATS: Sea of Universal Myth
“A still further step can and must be taken, however, before we still have reached the bounds of the problem. Myth, as the psychoanalysts declare, is not a mess of errors; myth is a picture language. But the language has … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda K. Coomaraswamy, Angela Carter, Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Dante Alighieri, Donald Haase, Emile Durkheim, Gustaf Tenggren, Jack Zipes, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Julius Krohn, Karl Verner, Katherina Viehmann, Kim Carpenter, Lisa Falzon, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Nikolai Lesskow, Nin Harris, Robert Darnton, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Aquinas, Tom Davenport, Walter Benjamin
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INTO AN ENCHANTED FOREST: Shadowy & Conjectural Images
“So that by that time the Grimm brothers arrived to began their collection, much material had overlain the remote mythology of the early tribes. Tales from thee four quarters, inventions from every level of society and all stages of Western … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Angela Carter, Arthur Rackham, Brothers Grimm, Clemens Bretano, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Emile Durkheim, Frankfurt School, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Kim Carpenter, Marianne Stokes, Max Muller, Nin Harris, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Robert Darnton, Robert Leinweber, Theodor Benfey, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Grimm
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COGNITIVE ART & IDEAS as a PRODUCT
”Innovate as a last resort” was a famous quote from Charles Eames, and considering the knack of innovation of Charles( 1907-78) and wife Ray Eames ( 1912-88), seems almost counter intuitive and against the grain of their virtuosity.To them, everyday … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Eames, Concordet, Eames Demetrios, Eames Design, Emile Durkheim, Herman Miller, James Joyce, Jean jaques Rousseau, John Berry, Mary Blair, Max Weber, Michael Neault, Mies van der Rohe, Ray Eames, Rene Descartes, Robespierre, Schonberg, Thomas Watson, Voltaire, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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