Tag Archives: Heinrich Hoffmann

young karl marx: the romantic aesthetic

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

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

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 infantsĀ  harbored violent and sexual and violent fantasies. Freud scandalized, shocked, emerging middle-class sensibilities, … 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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artistic terror : conceptual cowardice?

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

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

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

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alchemy of art: jangling the keys of solomon

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 irresistibleĀ  lure of certain of the Magic Squares of the Third Book, and their tendency … 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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RESERVOIR OF TEARS: Black Pedagogy & Do Nice Kids Finish Last?

“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

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