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languid luxury: the quicksand complex
Inertia as the root of evil. Is it the same as laziness? What to make of leisure present in the ideologized function of art where an aesthetic of laziness seems connected to the notion of conspicuous consumption, comparative preferences and … 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
road weary
It is the triumph of capitalist rationality. Call it Fordism. The dark side, apparent from the beginning, is the dangerous temptation of an inhuman but very rational drive toward profit. Fascism. There is no doubt that the landscape created by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, Andrew Graham Dixon, bianca mugyenyi, Billy Wilder, charles sheeler, diana dors, Filippo Marinetti, Georgia O'keefe, giacomo balla, italian futurism, james j. flink, John Sloan, Max Horkheimer, Reclaim the Streets, Rick Salutin, Theodor Adorno, yves engler
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a silent noise:from babylon to broadway
She rarely showed he paintings publicly and refused to put any of her work up for sale. Of course, she came from a wealthy family and didn’t have to sell her art to survive or play the art game with … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, christine cariati, dieter daniels, Florine Stettheimer, Georgia O'keefe, henry mcbride, joseph cornell, katherine dreier, Katherine Dreir, Marcel Duchamp, pavel tchelitchew, raymond roussel, Roberta Smith, ROberta Smith New York Times, Salvador dali, susan laxton, Tristan Tzara, Walter Arensberg
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SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT
”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander Calder, Allen Ginsberg, Claes Oldenberg, Dennis Oppenheim, Donald judd, Dylan Thomas, Ethan Coen, Georgia O'keefe, Ingar Dragset, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, Joel and Ethan, Joel Coen, John Chamberlain, John Constable, Laura Riding, Len Lye, Max Ernst, Michael Elmgreen, miro, No Country for old men film, Picasso, public art, Robert Graves, roger horrocks, W.H. Auden, Wind Wand
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