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confusion as intent
Dada. They brought to a sharp focus the dilemma in which making choices between so-called alternatives was a lost cause. Tristan Tzara ( of chess with Lenin fame ) saw opposites as essentially equivalent. Order=disroder. affirmation=negation. The efforts to incite … Continue reading
fantastic realism
She represented the opposite of the one dimensional society that was being constructed around her. Contrary to the nazi idea of purity, the well-managed in-bred society in the quest for the authentic human being and with the help of eugenics, … Continue reading
the edgy veggies: part of one big family
It seems that god’s original idea, if we look at the story of Adam, was that the first man could have the pick of the garden but not to eat meat. Doing the carnivore act was seen to coarsen the … Continue reading
striving to please: the second tear
It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Clive Bell, David Hume, Denis Dutton, Fernand Leger, Hannah Hoch, Harold Rosenberg, hermann broch, Howard Jacobson, john currin, Luke Fildes, Marcel Duchamp, Mel Brooks The Producers, milan kindera, stuart davis, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, tomas kulka, Walter Benjamin
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little criminals: occupy modify commodify
The ingenious part of our system, our “culture” is its ability to absorb and renew the top twenty percent of the population. These newbies, if you could call them, what Pierre Vallieres might term the new “white niggers of America” … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged andrew coyne, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, David Mamet, Edward S. Herman, Hannah Hoch, jacques duchesneau, jean charest, jean michel basquiat, John Heartfield, joseph heath rebel sell, Marianne Faithful, Marianne Faithfull, Martin Buber, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Pierre Vallieres, Robert ParkeHarrison, the duchesneau report, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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banality between the sheets: sucking on being
It has to be remembered that in the pecking order of European jewry before WWII, Germany was the absolute top of the hierarchy.There was no secular educational infrastructure to speak of in the East. The brethren from the Eastern ghettos … Continue reading
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Tagged Berel Lang, Bernard Wasserstein, boris lurie, carlin romano, edith birken artist, elzbieta ettinger, emmanuel faye, Franz Kafka, godley and Creme, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Hoch, hugo ott, jeremy waldron, John Heartfield, karl jaspers, kate fodor, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, max mueller, nathaniel popper, Ron Rosenbaum, victor farais, walter frank, william h. honan
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Not a Sugar Dada's Girl
Hannah Höch( 1889-1978) is best known as one of the originators of the medium of photomontage, and the only female member of the Berlin Dada group, an artistic grouping which protested the unprecedented destruction of World War I by putting … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Modern Art, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Berlin Dada, collage art, Dada Art, german art, Hannah Hoch, Heidegger, Henry Miller, John Heartfield, Luc Sante, Martin Heidegger, Martin Kroker, modern german art, photo montage, photomontage, Slate Magazine, Tropic of Cancer
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