Tag Archives: George Segal

fascination with opposites

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dave

….a fascination with opposites. The theory that no quality or trait in art can enjoy an independent existence without being dependent on a contrary. When you look at George Segal and Meyer Schapiro its very much a glimpse into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged ernst kirschner, George Segal, Marcel Duchamp, Max Horkheimer, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

where shall i seek you

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dave

The plausibility of Elie Wiesel asserting the importance of the holocaust as comparable and of equal significance to the events of Mount Sinai does seem like poetic lyricism gone amok and the elevation of the tragic to fetishised narrative of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged a.m. klein, Children of Lidice, Elie Wiesel, George Segal, Larry Rivers, Larry Rivers art, Max Horkheimer, Primo Levi, Theoor Adorno, Viktor Frankl, viktor frankl logotherapy | Leave a comment

leaving the absence intact

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dave

Monuments. There are monuments of the holocaust all over Germany. They are like crosses with the suffering Jesus allover the backroads of Quebec in the 1960′s. Mourn through the monuments and let them do the heavy lifting. We can’t really … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anne Frank, Anne Frank Madame Tussaud Berlin, Berlin holocaust memorial, Elie Wiesel, George Segal, Madame Pickwick, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Yasmin Ibrahim | Leave a comment

cin-thesis

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Dave

Articulations about suffering and pain without the destructive collateral damage of nihilism. Modern despair in a human way. A taking of Edward Hopper’s figures and putting them within the crowd of Baudelaire’s Paris, marching, crying, weeping, but maintaining a human … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Miller, Charles Baudelaire, Edward Hopper, franklin delano roosevelt memorial, George Segal, kent state shootings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, michael blackwood, Sigmund Freud, simmel, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

playing in the same band

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Dave

The WholeWorldBand. An uncontacted tribe coming to light.Will limited contact be necessary to protect the groups from external threats? Like Neanderthal Man recorded forty years ago, that glimpse, that brief appearance of a hitherto uncontacted tribe that vanished into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Amazon uncontacted tribes, FUNAI, George Segal, Hotlegs group, Hotlegs Neanderthal Man, kevin godley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, WholeWorldBand | Leave a comment

Chance Encounters In The Snare Of Dreams

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Dave

The weighty dilemma of the artist who must be ”human” in addition to creating. To slay the dragon of abstraction in pursuit of a cause. A mythological figure destined to eternal recurrence. Imagine alienation and despondency as a default setting, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Modern Art | Tagged Andy Warhol, Aristotle, Donald Kuspit, George Segal, Guy Debord, Jacques Ellul, James Rosenquist, John Sloan, Modern Sculpture, pop art, Robert Henri, Roy Lichtenstein, Sculpture, Sculpture Art, Socrates, The Technological Society | 1 Comment

Art of Cognitive Incoherence

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Dave

”An experience, in short, that violates all logic and expectation. The philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote that such anomalies produced a profound ‘sensation of the absurd,’ and he wasn’t the only one who took them seriously. Freud, in an essay called “The … Continue reading →