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Tag Archives: Gertrude Stein
PICASSO’S REFLEX ANXIETY :2 1/2 Men & Close Encounter of the 3 1/2 Kind
Perhaps more than any other artist, Pablo Picasso depicted the dark side; the Darth Vader of the human psyche, as well as the positive and the beautiful…This departure by Picasso from the so-called “civilized” and classical influences of Western art … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Breton, Carl Goldstein, Darth Vader, David Galenson, Donald Kuspit, Edmond Fortier, Edward Fry, Ernst Junger, Fernande Olivier, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, J.K. Huysmans, jack Flam, John Berger, Jonathan Richman, Jonathan Richman The Modern Lovers, Laura Ball, Leo Steinberg, Max Kosloff, Megan Meighan, Michele Leight, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Richard Hamilton, Robert J. Sternberg, Robert Smithson, Rosalind Krauss, Satie, Sigmund Freud, Stravinsky, Vladimir Tatlin
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PICASSO & ANXIETY IN 3D: Me, Myself and Aye Yay
Did Picasso show the hollowness of the everyday objects in his world because he disbelieved them, even as he acknowledged their existence? Although Picasso’s “Demoiselles D’Avignon” is clearly about Picasso’s own desire it is also an expression of his fear?, … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Ernst Cassirer, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Leo Steinberg, Marquis de Sade, Max Kosloff, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Susan Sontag, Suzanne Langer, William Rubin
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PICASSO HO HUM:The Banality of Evil?
The story of Picasso’s Guernica is in itself a study of myth and of enduring magic….Even Picasso could not a foreseen the impact of Guernica and his own struggles living in occupied France. The political situation forced Picasso into isolation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Riding, Andre Derain, Andre Lhote, Ernst Junger, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Jean Bazaire, Jean Du Buffon, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Julien Hervier, Leo Steinberg, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michele C. Cone, Pablo Picasso, Paul Fluard, Pete Hamill, Richard Eder, Robert Luongo
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PICASSO, Visual Violence and the Unbinding of Desire: JUST BECAUSE
After the first World War, Andre Breton came to Picasso’s studio….. saw Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and recognised it as the definitive modern masterpiece. Breton, the leader of the surrealists, saw in it a painting about the revolutionary menace of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, El Greco, Felix Feneon, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Ingres, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Stein, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Kirby, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Tony Grillo
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PICASSO : Distortion and Ruthless attack on GOOD TASTE
Was it just new forms for old feelings? Are new feelings even possible? And were not these forms somehow recycled and repackaged from pre-Christian era civilizations? In any event, the innovations of modern art cannot be explained adequately on formal … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Green, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jacques Emile Blanche, John Canaday, John Golding, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Steinberg, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Patricia Leighton, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Robert Luongo, Roger Fry, Tamar Garb, Van Gogh
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MATISSE: “Abnormal to the Last Degree”
The man who created this exotic and compelling art was not easy to know. In 1913, the New York Times dispatched Clara T. MacChesney to interview “The King of the Fauves” in his home outside Paris. Aware that Matisse’s work … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Elsen, Andre Derain, Catherine Bock-Weiss, Clara T. MacChesney, Donald Kuspit, Fauvism, Fernande Olivier, Gertrude Stein, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Leo Stein, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman
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ITS A MAN’S WORLD:Fighting Over Creature Features
Elmer Wheeler was the greatest salesman of his time. He took a wise crack: “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle” and turned it into an imposing, profit-making, money-sucking business philosophy. Wheeler emphasised that people are not interested in “the steak”, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Caillou, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Brett McKay, Bruce Jay Friedman, Charles Darwin, Elmer Wheeler, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Hugh Hirtle, Josh Alan Friedman, Mario Puzo, Martin Goodman, Mickey Spillane, Mrio Puzo, Sherwood Anderson, Stuart Friedman, Will Hulsey
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LOST GENERATION : RECLAIMED FROM THE WASTELAND
The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. At this point in time, America had become a great place to, “go into some … Continue reading
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Tagged Anatole france, Archibald MacLeish, Daniel Aaron, David Sanders, E.E. Cummings, Edward Bernays, Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Bernard Shaw, George Grosz, Gertrude Stein, Gold, Gustave Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Jackie Gross, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jill Tripodi, John Dos Passos, Joyce Ulysses, Marcel Proust, Max Beckmann, Neil Howe, Romaine Rolland, Stephane Mallarme, T.S. Eliot, Thorstein Veblen, William Faulkner, William Strauss
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SILENCE FILLED WITH VIVID NOISELESS BOYS
After graduation and on the eve of his embarkation for France as a “gentleman volunteer” ambulance driver,John Dos Passos’s letters almost exploded with rebellion. “I have been spending my time of late going to pacifist meetings and being dispersed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Seeger, Archibald MacLeish, Charles Nordhoff, Daniel Aaron, E.E. Cummings, Egon Schiele, Eric Kennington, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, John Reed, John Steinbeck, Malcolm Cowley, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Nathan Asch, Otto Dix, Richard Norton, Robert Service, Sandra Gilbert, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolf, Thornton Wilder
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