Tag Archives: Gottfried Helnwein

complicity: holocaust reprisal

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Dave

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

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Dave

…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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Carnegie, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, darwinism, ernst haeckel, Gottfried Helnwein, Herbert Spencer, J.C. Lavater, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx and Engels, oswald mosely, Prince Kropotkin, Walter Bagehot, William Graham Sumner | Leave a comment

the syrian bride: all in the family

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Asma Assad, Bashar Al Assad, Gary Cooper, Gottfried Helnwein, Henry Kissinger, James Gillray, Niall Ferguson, Peter Munk Debates, Philip Zimbardo, Syrian President Assad, Thorstein Veblen, Vogue Magazine Asma Assad, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

austerity will set you free

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Angela Merkel, Gottfried Helnwein, Greek debt crisis, james rickards, mark blyth, mark blyth brown university, mimmo rubino, nicole itano, reena virk, reena virk murder, Thorstein Veblen, watson institute, watson institute brown university | Leave a comment

passively complicit outrage

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adorno, alan schechner, Bruno Ganz, carol zemel, Claude Lanzmann, Donald Kuspit, Elie Wiesel, Gottfried Helnwein, henryk ross, Jean Paul Sartre, Lee Miller photography, margaret bourke-white, Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

the smell of smoke

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Dave

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 nature leading the aesthetic to serve as basis … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan schechner, carol zemel, elliott barowitz, Gottfried Helnwein, Heinrich Hoffmann, Lee Miller photography, Leonard Cohen, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, norman kleeblatt, rudolf herz | Leave a comment

above the law: shadows of angels

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged arnold zweig, Daniel Schmid, David Zane Mairowitz, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Gottfried Helnwein, Hannah Arendt, hans fricke, isaac babel, Judith Butler, justin vicari, kafka manuscripts, louis begley, Milena Jesenska, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Crumb | Leave a comment

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

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan schechner, Art Spiegelman, Bell Hooks, Donald Kuspit, Gottfried Helnwein, holocaust art, Jennifer Peto, Jonathan Kay national Post, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, matthew frye jacobson, richard kazis, rudolf herz, terry fincher, Tom Sachs, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

guilty by juxtaposition

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Gottfried Helnwein, Heinrich Hoffmann, Lady Gaga, lee miller, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, Ron Rosenbaum, rudolf herz, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

New Order : elusive holy grail

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Dave

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 →