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spiritually diseased please

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dave

There was a famous line attributed to Walter Benjamin that captures somewhat the problem the Nazi’s had with what they termed “degenerate art,” which lacked the necessary material underpinnings to easily transform itself into unchallenging kitsch. Benjamin’s “logical result of … Continue reading →

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degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dave

Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading →

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