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Tag Archives: Esther Leslie
and the moon struck one
Exposing the infinite madness of the unconscious. Showing that anti-establishment art could be accepted, ultimately, by the powers that be through a direct democratic appeal to the what could be called “the great unwashed” unperturbed and uncorrupted by the veneer … Continue reading
inanimate itch for the kitsch: real men don’t eat kitsch?
Modernist culture is simply not animated by eternal values of the purity of art and abstract truth. Like the dinosaur it failed to adapt and we tossed the baby out with the bath water. Not surprisingly, Walter Benjamin said that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged bazzano-nelson, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Esther Leslie, godley and Creme, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Jeff Koons, kracauer, liliana porter, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Roger Scruton, Sigmund Freud, sylvia meyer, Theodor Adorno, W.H. Auden, Walter Benjamin
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wall street : hot under a blue collar
If anything, the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors has simply evoked the long-standing fallacy of Joseph Stiglitz’s assertion of the 1% vs. 99% thesis. The police. Those on blue know where the bread is buttered and those in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abbott and Costello, Alexander Cockburn, Blue Labour, Charlie Chaplin, david north, Esther Leslie, IWW, Joseph Stiglitz, keystone cops, lisa ansell, mark ciavarella, Maurizio Cattelan, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, michael conahan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, occupy wall street, peter mcbrien, peter taaffe, ralph miliband, Rosa Luxemburg, sam gompers, stephen shalom, The Wobblies, zuccotti park
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alienating and liberating
The art of Hollywood, or really the business of Hollywood is to dumb and trivialize any critical currents into marketable product. Absorption and coop-tion skills that dumb everything down into cheap neutral entertainment where meaningful content is parceled into bite-sized … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bernays, Bernie Madoff, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Rollason, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, Eisenstein, Esther Leslie, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Sergei Eisenstein, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin
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