Tag Archives: Gerhard Richter

tin drum solo: private concert

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Dave

Trivialities and profound truths. This spit and spat match with Gunter Grass can be seen as using Israel and Jews as a pretext for his own bashing of a new Germany, one remarkably different than his own version, which has … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Eli Yishai, Erich Mielke, Gerhard Richter, Gunter grass, Gunter Grass israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Neo Rauch, Zionism | Leave a comment

brand name incidental relationships

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dave

The transformation of beauty into claims of prestige? What if there was no super-wealthy class to cultivate and consume art and hence be able to draw invidious comparisons with their peers? Veblen asserted that wealth display and the splurging of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Geffen, Donald Kuspit, eileen kinsella, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, naum gabo, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, richard serra, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

muckrakers and culture stakers

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dave

The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Gerhard Richter, Guy Debord, Jean Genet, john collier, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, lincoln steffens, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Pete Seeger, Peter Max, the muckrakers, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, yvelyne wood | Leave a comment

grey melancholia: looking for mourners

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Dave

“Where one comes from?” The work of art invested with the pathos of melencholia.Fake tears? The failure of the West as a humanizing endeavor? Dreams of resurrection decomposing. The numbing greyness of the decaying corpse, the failed experiment of regeneration … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged anselm kiefer, Gerhard Richter, peter eisenman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigmund Freud, Stendhal, Thomas Mann, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

people in glass cases

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Dave

Call it an archiving of the human inventory of the ghetto. An accounting before sealing the doors shut and flipping the switch. August Sander. It was the new scientific method of photography. The subject as an anatomical study of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan trachtenberg, Albrecht Durer, August Sander, Charles Darwin, Gerhard Richter, Helen Levitt photography, John Berger, kurt tucholsky, Max Ernst, Sigmund Freud, Stendhal, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

is it art without the spiritual?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

violence and loss: dead moon fever

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dave

The beauty in ambivalence? Theodor Adorno said that after Auschwitz it was impossible to write poetry. But, is attempting to make beautiful art irresponsible? Is it responsible to invoke, to posit, monumentalism to unyielding hopelessness; to imply that nihilism is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alice Miller, anselm kiefer, bernhard vesper, Donald Kuspit, ernst nolte, Gerhard Richter, Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Heine, Joseph Beuys, mark r. dobbins, Martin Heidegger, sophie fiennes, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

spirits having flown: another gray morning

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dave

What is meant by the spiritual in art is not self-evident; its been lost in translation, like finding the code to understanding Van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece, its becoming extinct as a graspable part of the lexicon and daily interchange. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Franz Marc, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gerhard Richter, Harold Bloom, Hilton Kramer, jacques barzum, Jan van Eyck, Joseph Beuys, Kasimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Marilyn Monroe, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

kitsch and the scandal of discovery

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Dave

Maybe its about our ingrained habits of denying what we know, but don’t want to know.What could be termed disavowal. A dark, musty zone between knowing and unknowing. There is nothing sexually overt in John Currin’s paintings, an absence of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Gerhard Richter, john currin, John Haber, kim levin, Lucas Cranach, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Norman Rockwell, rachel feinstein, Robert Hughes, Roy Lichtenstein | Leave a comment

TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dave

His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading →