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karl marx: conspiracy weary
…Karl Marx’s irritability was undoubtedly exasperated by persistent ill health. When writing “Capital” he was severely troubled with hemorrhoids. As he wrote plaintively to Engels, “to finish I must at least be able to sit down,” adding grimly, “I hope … Continue reading
tergenev: high tide for the serf
The great emancipator: Ivan Turgenev and his collection of stories A Sportsman’s Sketch. He helped bring freedom to the serf by the devastating method of showing them what their lives were like through fiction… …Even in those stories where the … 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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picasso comet
The effect of the rise of esteem in the earlier periods of Picasso automatically put a grip on the reception of the later ones as they came off the easel. Since the end of WWII every freshly painted Picasso was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Francisco Goya, Ilya Repin, Jackson Pollock, Jonathan Richman, jonathan richman pablo picasso, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Man Ray, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Analyst Cubist period, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Valentine Dedensing, William Blake
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excess: wild steppes forward
Russians have always discussed the state of their souls as earnestly as the state of the economy of the vagaries of Russian politics. Always a strange blend of grandiose schemes, despair and optimism, futility and petty bickerings. The luxury of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ilya Repin, Josef von Sternberg, lansere russian artist, Madame de stael, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marlene Dietrich, russian history, the empress petrovna, vladimir putin election 2012
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putin: land of toska and dousha
Russians have always had a thread of excess, showing itself strong and clear against the somber texture of their existence. Extreme activity. Extreme laziness. Extreme appetite. The extremely excessive. The extravagant Slav temperament seems to be traced to all classes … Continue reading
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Tagged Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ilya Repin, john stackhouse, john stackhouse globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Vladimir Putin, vladimir putin election 2012, zinaida serebryakova
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too much is not enough
Fatalism as part of the Rusian DNA, an absurd romanticism stretched to the extreme, grounded in a byzantine hierarchy of social order that defined the nobility, fenced them off from the world at large, and which ultimately this insulation contributed … Continue reading
correctional devices
Truth at the margins. Playing with trauma and variations on holding the traumatic moment. There is an uneasy relationship with popular culture, kitsch, and an underlying current of fascism. As Adorno said, “The encouragement of kitsch is merely another of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, edouard manet olympia, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Ilya Repin, kazimierz switon, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, saul friedlander, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Lohengrin, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera
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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
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