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obey
Obey. If you put them in a line, will they just keep going? Are they brought up that way? Obedience. The question might not be centered around perverse pleasures and sadism, but of placing oneself in view of the all … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Alice Miller, anselm kiefer, emmanuel levinas, georg baselitz, Gunter grass, helmut middendorf, janka, Leni Riefenstahl, markus lupertz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rebecca horn, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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when the grim reaper won’t leave
A bit problematic to be German. Still. The long arc of history is easily within an arm’s reach of the old Germany, tortured, and with a romantic sensibility of subject confronted with a bleak Germanism that marked the new realism. … Continue reading
burying the dead ends
The avant-garde revolution was over. Ironically, their work also signified the end of avant-gardism and the onset of post-modernism. The avant-garde had become history. Its contradictions, the emptiness, the triumph of form over substance, essentially its transformation into rote kitsch … Continue reading
is it art without the spiritual?
Is art, art, when there is no spiritual content? Or is it simply at the level of a visual language that descends to the level of advertising and marketing management? Does the absence of the embodiment of the spiritual mean … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Damien Hirst, georg baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, James Hillman, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leni Riefenstahl, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, polke, social realist art, veronica brady, warhol pop art, Wassily Kandinsky
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full chalk circle
There was a sense of existential desperation to this quintessentially German artist. Death infection was always lurking in the work of Bertolt Brecht, often the fatalistic embodiment of existential truth. This lurking triumph of death, the dance of death, may … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Andy Warhol, Bertolt Brecht, dieter hacker, Donald Kuspit, elvira bach, georg baselitz, Harold Rosenberg, Hegel Philosopher, helmut middendorf, martin disler, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, walter ulbricht
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too long in exile: worn out welcome
Brecht in exile. He wrote movie scripts and tried to sell them but, except for his scenario for Hangmen Also Die, Brecht sold nothing. He seems to have persistently missed the fact that a great many of the ideas he … Continue reading
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Tagged anselm kiefer, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, charles laughton, Charlie Chaplin, clifford odets, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth hauptmann, Fritz Lang, georg baselitz, HUAC hearings, jaroslav hacek, John Fuegi, lotte lenya, Peter Lorre
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between empathy and illusion
…Brecht began to contrive an elaborate complex of stage techniques to produce the celebrated alienation effect, which was designed to stir audiences without exhausting them. He employed many varieties of the play within a play convention to keep the narration … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Aristotle, Bertolt Brecht, Charlie Chaplin, Donald Kuspit, edward kippers, georg baselitz, german neoexpressionism, Kurt Weill, martin esslin brecht, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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