Tag Archives: Heinrich Hoffmann

young karl marx: the romantic aesthetic

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Dave

The many faces of Karl Marx: The forgotten one is the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …In his secure niche in the placid, comely, pre-industrial world of Trier and the German university towns, it … Continue reading →

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baltzer: liar liar pants on fire

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Dave

More of an insult to those less fettered by what is perceived as the superior worth of the ostensibly intellectually superiority. The self-perceived superior worth. An unquestioning obedience to values of the secular enlightenment, liberalism and opposition to religious values. … Continue reading →

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Lego: innocence engineering

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Dave

Evidently, Lego toys are darker and more complex than consumers are willing to admit. Early in the twentieth-century, Sigmund Freud spilled the beans that even young infants harbored violent and sexual and violent fantasies. Freud scandalized, shocked, emerging middle-class sensibilities, … Continue reading →

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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

artistic terror : conceptual cowardice?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dave

Is Marcel Duchamp a terrorist? In a figurative sense, a weapon of mass destruction. The super-bomb/dirty bomb alchemical chain reaction where crap is turned into monetary gold. Clearly, with the ready-made, there was an initial anti-hierarchical space of thought, something … Continue reading →

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a sagging and bagging story

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dave

The pull up your pants law. With a recession and lots of people with extra time on their hands. The law is part of a more complex social issue that says more about white culture’s response to hip culture, but … Continue reading →

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guilty and lovin’ it

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dave

Not innocent and bathing in the glory, the release of the burden of innocence. Freedom. There was a time when children were less glorified and spoilt.The child’s innocence was lost in pregnancy and never recovered.. In all our periods and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan gopnik, Charles Dickens, george s. zimbel, Heinrich Hoffmann, helen levitt children, Helen Levitt photography, l. frank baum, R.M. Vaughan, roald dahl, Sir John Donne | Leave a comment

alchemy of art: jangling the keys of solomon

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Dave

With secret sound. The liberation of the subjective self. Magic squares and alchemy in art lending hermetic interpretations to deciphering works of art.It was the irresistible lure of certain of the Magic Squares of the Third Book, and their tendency … Continue reading →

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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

RESERVOIR OF TEARS: Black Pedagogy & Do Nice Kids Finish Last?

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Dave

“I remember spending afternoon with Mr. Richter in the Central Park Zoo, I went weighted down with food for the animals, only someone who’d never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them, Mr. Richter … Continue reading →