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Tag Archives: Jacob Epstein
the wilde bunch
by Art Chantry: oscar wilde’s gravestone. noted without comment… any ideas on who designed it? there was an amazingly beautiful mausoleum in a cemetery in st.louis that was designed by louis sullivan (for a mistress of a local beer baron.) … Continue reading
face the world
Confrontational realism. Like the late 18th century mechanical Turk chess set where a puppet moved the pieces guided by a hunchback in the workings, you have to wonder if the face we see is real and what is the nature … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged charley toorop, Jacob Epstein, jan toorop, Walter Benjamin
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freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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everything must go: but deep pockets not enough
The intricate relationship between art and commerce.This past Wednesday, Christies auction house in New York sold an astounding $300 million of art……Does it really matter if its good or worth it? Is it art or a commodity?…. The sales figures … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albrecht Durer, alighiero boetti, amy cappellazzo, andreas gursky, Andy Warhol, brett gorvy, cecily brown, christopher burge, christopher mason, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, cy twombly, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, edward dolman, Francis Bacon, Francis Picabia, greenberg rohatyns, Jacob Epstein, jean-pierre lehmann, Jeff Koons, julie mehretu, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, mary boone, maurice vlaminck, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Philippe Segalot, Rembrandt, richard diebenkorn, Richard Prince, todd levin, urs fischer
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failures of empathy:aesthetics of doubt
The basic problem that Walter Benjamin was uncovering was the relation between law and justice as it leaned on violence.The struggle of the divine power with mythological violence. His “Critique on Violence” addressed the question of whether violence in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Chaim Soutine, Clement Greenberg, Ernst Kirchner, Franz Kafka, Gustav Schiefler, H. Harvard Arnason, Heinz Kohut, Jacob Epstein, Max Horkheimer, Otto Dix, Sylvia von Harden, Walter Benjamin, willem de Kooning
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