Tag Archives: H. Harvard Arnason

failures of empathy:aesthetics of doubt

The basic problem that Walter Benjamin was uncovering was the relation between law and justice as it leaned on violence.The struggle of the divine power with mythological violence.  His “Critique on Violence” addressed the question of whether violence in the … Continue reading

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EXUBERANT BUT NOT ABERRANT: No Orgies Of COLOR

Henri Matisse was termed a “wild beast”, a fauve. Traditional art was soon to become an irrelevancy, an anachronism, as experimental art began to develop its own audience, its own markets, and its own rationales apart from being merely anti-traditionalist. It seemed … Continue reading

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