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imagination: leaving the gray elysium
An ambivalence to life reflected nowhere more so than the child’s relationship to memory, at once complete, graphic and epic yet vague, blurry and unfinished. And why not, given the facility to escape, to flee at one’s leisure the fairytale … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Ernst Bloch, Francisco Goya, Goethe color theory, Jacob Boehme, Jan Steen, jean paul writer, johann ludwig tieck, Michel Foucault, philipp otto runge, phillip otto runge, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Reich, Winslow Homer
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cabaret voltaire: an arcade project
Dada as just another shop, another boutique in the arcade? Dada put into question the myths surrounding originality, and the relationship of the artist to the category of “genius”. Dada suggested instead, or implied that everyone could be an artist, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Andy Warhol, cubism and dada, Donald Kuspit, emily hennings, Ernst Bloch, Francis Picabia, futurism and dada, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hans Richter, Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, miles w. mathis, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, situationism, Tristan Tzara, Voltaire, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin dada
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bosch: strawberry fields nor ever
A cursing of those fanatical, demented, crazed…tormentors and executioners….The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch has certainly puzzled viewers. It is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic paintings ever done. Only five hundred years later has its meaning … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Erasmus, Erich Fromm, Ernst Bloch, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin
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UTOPIAN DREAMS & SCHEMES and IN-BETWEENS
What is Utopia and why does it attract both hope and skepticism in equal measure? In a way that appears meaningful, it is a productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive optimistic utopianism and a negative utopian pessimism. A … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Amy Boesky, Andrew Milner, Charles Fourier, Ernest Bloch, Ernst Bloch, Francis Bacon, Frederick Engels, George Ripley, Gilles Deleuze, Gordon Campbell, Herbert Marcuse, Hieronymous Bosch, James Harrington, John Humphrey Noyes, John Milton, Jonathan Berman Commune, Lou Gottleib, Margaret Fuller, Michael Simmons Huffington Post, Michel Foucault, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New harmony, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Peter Simon, Richard Wagner, Robert Appelbaum, Robert Owen, Samuel Gott, Sara Davidson, Simon Schama, Sir Thomas More, Theodor Adorno, Thomas N. Corns, Walter Benjamin
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A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON
‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Gregoire, Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bernardino Fergioni, Bonaventura Peeters, Caravaggio, Charles Darwin, Claude Joseph Vernet, Danby, Douglas Kellner, Ernst Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Isabey, Flaubert, Francis Danby, George P. Landow, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Ivan Aivazovsky, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Keith Reid, Lorenz Eitner, Michelangelo, Robin Spencer, Tennyson, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman, William Falconer
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THE HOPE PRINCIPLE
The Medusa, a naval frigate, ran aground off Mauritania in July 1816. Only about 250 of the 400 people on board could fit into the lifeboats. On a jerry-built raft about 150 of the others were set adrift. By the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Berlioz, Charles Darwin, Chaumariex Medusa, De Musset, Ernst Bloch, Frederic Chopin, French Romantic Art, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Jacques-Louis David, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Robin Spencer, Romanticism Painting, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman
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BEING DOES NOT = E + MC 2
Though the goal of spontaneous human combustion can also be attained by splitting atoms and achieving fission in the more social sciences. The vocabulary of art is, a priori, a language. That is, its aim is to communicate to others … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu-Bakarr Mansaray, African Art, Bill Poser, Cheri Cherin, Darwin, Ernest Bloch, Ernst Bloch, Ernst Simon Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Globe and mail, Haiti, Hannah Arendt, Jane Alexander, Jean Paul Sartre, Leonard Cohen, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Malam, Mapplethorpe, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Mozart, Newton, Noam Chomsky, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Robert Mapplethorpe, Russell Smith, Sartre, Steven Pinker, Wangechi Mutu
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