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Tag Archives: Jacques Ranciere
back to the salon: trititude and tritism
A labored avant-garde, hack mediocrity, tired formula and mixing the sauce on old recipes resulting in a living fabric of life being transposed into a theatrical event? Its possible the avant garde today is decoration catering to mediocre tastes much … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Jacques Ranciere, jean-louis meissonier, jean-louis picard, Joseph Beuys, Kazimir Malevich, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, Peter Burger, peter watson, Sir Edwin Landseer, Wassily Kandinsky
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mural mural on the wall…
Can street art murals be simply too hot to handle for the public to view? Are the public funds and corporate subsidies often used to produce it any more disreputable than the same norms that permit corporations to peddle much … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged adrienne bennett, Diego Rivera, diego rivera murals, Frida Kahlo, graham w.j. beal, Henry James Thaddeus, Jacques Ranciere, jeffrey deitch, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, judy taylor maine mural, Leon Trotsky, mike tipping, paul lepage maine governor, Slavoj Zizek, street artist blu
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theatre of the union: logos, pathos & a dog called sputnik
Do we call the Obama speech, his state of the union address, a seizing of the Sputnik moment. We have had Minsky moments, but a Sputnik moment? Or is this just another example of those pointy headed white intellectuals lecturing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Anderson Cooper, Ari Fleischer, Aristotle, Byron York, David Gergen, Douglas Brinkley, Elizabeth Maupin, Jacques Ranciere, Jimm Lasser, Kubrick, Matt Taibbi, Obama, Obama State of the Union, Peter Aldhous, Plato, Stanley Kubrick
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Power of the narrative: distributing the sensible
Call it the hidden hand.When the narrative breaks down the ability to pull classic trump hands from the pile. This means of depicting the other as something suspicious; like turning over a rock with a stick and seeing what living … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Al Gore, David Brooks, Dick Cheney, Gabrielle Giffords, Howard Kurtz, Jacques Ranciere, James Fallows, Jared Lee Loughner, John Kerry, Jonathan Chait, Katharine Wolfe, Mark Karlin, Maureen Dowd, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Saul Alinsky, Senator Gary Hart, Tyler Bass, Yobie Benjamin
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feast and famine of pure reason
At age twenty-two in 1937, the Museum of Modern Art purchased “Feast of Pure Reason” , and Jack Levine became known as the school of Boston Expressionism. It seems hardly justified that his work would fall almost totally out of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged David Sutherland, Dennis Raverty, Harvey Kurtzman, Honore Daumier, Jack Levine, Jacques Ranciere, Jerry Tallmer, Marc Chagall, Marcus Williamson, Pablo Picasso, Robert Crumb, Robert Hughes, Seth Lipsky, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian, William Hogarth
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