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malthus: specter at the feast
Thomas Robert Malthus. Hunger is always at the door, even in an era like our own. People still die of starvation. Do people starve because there are too many of us ? Or, is famine the necessary companion, the price … Continue reading
humor in art: hurt idealism
It would seem that humour and style are inseparable. But humour itself is not-never was-mere jocularity. Humour is a way of feeling about life, and when humour is great it is almost never without one of its opposite moods- tenderness, … Continue reading
finding their way back to the new-old world
At some point the sublimity of spirituality becomes corrupted, infected and toxified with religious hallucinations embedded with supersitition and fantastic images from the recesses of the mind. An addiction to the subjective roots of ostensibly objective problems. James Ensor could … Continue reading
hollow figures: surreal importance
“The hollow figure of a human head…” is the way one dictionary defines a mask. But surely there must be more to it. What unkind fate has kept us from using masks in our own time? Why do we continue … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Donald Ellis Gallery, Enrico Donati, George Gustav Heye, Hunter Gorinson, James Adams, James Ensor, Jenna Cederberg, Judith H.Dobrzynski, Julius Carlebach, Laura Allsop, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Rosalind E. Krauss, Surrealism, Valery Oisteanu, Yves Tanguy
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FRANKLY MR. SHANKLY: I’d Rather Be Reified
Frankly Mr. Shankly, I’d rather be famous than righteous or holy, any day….. and so Morrissey sang with the Smiths. Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I’ve held it pays my way and it corrodes my soul I want to leave … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Billy Wilder, Byron, Erik Estrada, Hegel Philosopher, Ian Fraser, James Ensor, John Keats, Karl Marx, Keats, Linda Evangelista, Lord Byron, Lukacs, Marxism, Maurizio Cattelan, Morrissey, Robert Fulford, Stefan Edlis, The Smiths, Theodor Adorno, Tom Cruise, Walter Benjamin
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UNPLEASANTLY SANE & MYSTICALLY MAD
“William Blake is an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement….the proor man fancies himself a great master, and has painted a few wretched pictures, some of which are intelligible allegory, others an attempt at sober character by … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Adam and Eve, Edvard Munch, Emanuel Swedenborg, Frantz Fanon, Fuseli, G.K. Chesterton, Jacob Boehme, James Ensor, Joshua Reynolds, Karl Marx, Le Douanier Rousseau, Lord Byron, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Pauwel Rubens, Rubens, T.S. Eliot, Timothy Vines, W.B. Yeats, Walter Scott, William Blake, William Blake Nebuchadnezzar, William Wordsworth
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Art of Alienation
Does alienation have a predefined or finite limit after which death writes its inevitable postscript? Can it become an all-consuming identity; part of a core genetic makeup? Is victimhood a path forged on the basis of free will, or a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertholt Brecht, Brecht, Felix Nussbaum, Felka Nussbaum, German Expressionism, James Ensor, Mark Jenkins, Van Gogh
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