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a meme as astral seeks
Playing with memes and avoiding the minefield of sensationalism, and new variants on the theme of pornography, which seems to be the antithesis of magic and at least something surprising, compelling and not entirely comprehensible. [Kitsch] is perhaps most clearly … Continue reading
main street: direct appeal to the senses
Period pieces. Toby Tyler, circa 1890 and chockablock with tried and tested cliches which work pretty well, even by today’s standards. Toby Tyler, an orphan, and Disney is really the patron saint of orphans, who lives with a crosspatch uncle … Continue reading
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Tagged Clement Greenberg, Friedrich Schiller, Gabrielle Thuller, Hegel Philosopher, hermann broch, Ilya Repin, Immanuel Kant, Kevin Corcoran, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mr. Stubbs Toby Tyler, Thomas Kulka, Toby Tyler Disney movie
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Looking for the naughty bits
The intimate relationship between sex and death carried to the extremes of excess as only the Russian characters seems uniquely equipped to articulate. The secret erotic room of Catherine the Great as urban legend or in fact proof of decadence … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aristophanes, catherine the great erotic room, catherine the great furniture, hermann broch, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, peter woditsch, siege of leningrad, Sigmund Freud, sophie schoukens
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kitsch of genius: the old campaigners
Hard to believe people are willing to invest so deeply in art that is almost bereft of any importance. Strictly a commodity with exchange value? Perhaps. Clement Greenberg was likely too harsh on Repin, although he was correct in questioning … 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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absurdities: the masculine warrior figure
Vanity is usually pretty revolting. An auto-glorification. narcissism. But as a minor saving grace, it can aspire to a certain honesty. But, for some reason, the relationship between vanity and worshiping money remains an enduring legacy, as if the power … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Cindy Sherman, edouard manet olympia, Ernst Junger, Filippo Marinetti, Hans Bellmer, hermann broch, italian futurism, John Updike, lucio fontana, Max Ernst, Otto Weininger, Piero Manzoni, richard kazis, robert stoller, Umberto Boccioni, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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