Tag Archives: Gottfried Helnwein

complicity: holocaust reprisal

Holocaust denial. An inverted, form of denial where the number of camps is exponentially greater than what could possibly be imagined. And the number of victims greater as well? It comes back to that stubborn old national characteristic which is … Continue reading

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darwin: creating the pretext for a dilemma

…It is a strange paradox that Darwin, who gave up shooting because of the cruelty it entailed, should have been one of the begetters of the strident power philosophies of the late nineteenth century. The notion of the struggle for … Continue reading

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the syrian bride: all in the family

It wasn’t because of his dancing ability, or his sexy cinema noir looks, or the jew jokes at the dinner table in which he always forgot the punch-line, or his absolutely ribald yet compelling attempt at yodeling; does she laugh … Continue reading

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austerity will set you free

A Pinata Party. Picking over the carcass. Reena Virk. A girl, fourteen, caught in a deep plunge of self-esteem. She just wanted to be part of the gang. The cool club. But she became a victim of adolescent ritual. Virk … Continue reading

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passively complicit outrage

There are a number of near non-resolvable dilemmas that artists face in representing the holocaust in their creations. It addition to contributing a broader and profound understanding of the complexities of this tragedy, there are other considerations such as whether … Continue reading

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the smell of smoke

Is art an effective means of dealing with a painful subject; after all, art’s form does not preclude the possibility of subject matter and emotions of the most intense and and appalling natureĀ  leading the aesthetic to serve as basis … Continue reading

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above the law: shadows of angels

Germany using Israeli lawyers to help “repatriate” Kafka manuscripts and literary legacy back to Germany. Keeping the works under lock and key, like incarcerated hostages out of Jozef Fritzl. It should burnish the national brand, used as export propaganda for … Continue reading

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where the truth lies: what is “the real thing” ?

We are often convinced we are looking at a seamless and accurate depiction of reality and the shock involved is the realization that it is not quite so obvious as we thought… What are the boundaries of artistic representation and … Continue reading

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guilty by juxtaposition

A peculiar combination of context and coincidence.A new aesthetic discourse in Nazi representation. Is there an aesthetics of fascism? Rudolf Herz is the artist who took the seemingly incongruous combination of Hitler and Marcel Duchamp and combined the two in … Continue reading

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New Order : elusive holy grail

Does fear eat the soul? Eventually Hitler’s Aryan myth, like many another, monstrously devoured both its creators and its supporters. It all began as a minor and unsolvable issue in comparative linguistics around the time of the French revolution. It … Continue reading

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