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Tag Archives: Joseph Beuys
violence and loss: dead moon fever
The beauty in ambivalence? Theodor Adorno said that after Auschwitz it was impossible to write poetry. But, is attempting to make beautiful art irresponsible? Is it responsible to invoke, to posit, monumentalism to unyielding hopelessness; to imply that nihilism is … Continue reading
the anger management chip ( on the shoulder )
Although Steve Jobs was worshiped deity on his death,and not dragged through the streets of sirte and paraded on a car hood like a felled prize stag such as Gaddafi, there are some weird and perplexing connections between such powerful … Continue reading
build a better mousetrap to snag em’
build it and they will come? Good intro here, but the Father then went on to extoll the stadium. But, some interesting points. You have to wonder if these massive structures are a perversion of some form of twisted ideology. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged b.c. place stadium, christopher caudwell, Donald Kuspit, Father Raymond J. de Souza, fred herzog photography, Guy Debord, Helen Levitt photography, henri Lefebvre, Joseph Beuys, mikel dufrenne, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Raymond De Souza, Robert ParkeHarrison, Viktor Frankl, viktor frankl logotherapy, wilson bryan key
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failure: discomfort of hazard and chance
Are the fragments of our lives ruled by laws of random events and unpredictable chance? A single moment can irrevocably alter the course of a life. We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.Lifelong certainties about the world can … Continue reading
STORIES OF STUFF:GARAGE SALE OF THE SOUL
Annie Leonard and her “The Story of Stuff”. It raises issues that go beyond pollution and recycling; it addresses complex relationships at the intersection of feminism and environmentalism. At this moment, both feminism and environmentalism are at interesting points in … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Abigail Johnson, Ann Filemyr, Annie Leonard, Caroline Merchant, Catriona Sandilands, Charlotte Smith, Dani Crosby, ecofeminism, Elizabeth Royte, Feminism, Francis Bacon, Gender and Politics, Irene Diamond, Jane Smiley, Joseph Beuys, Kandi Tayebi, Lynne Hull, Martin Lewis, Martin Lewis Green Delusions, Noel Sturgeon, Panniccia Carden, Pratrap Chatterjee, Robert Solow MIT, Rosanne Kanhai, Rose Gonnella, Shi Hui, Susan Kollin, William Blake
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PARALLEL STRESS OF CONCEPTUAL ART
The earliest conceptual artists to get wide public attention were the Earth Artists, including Michael Heizer, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, and Walter De Maria, who in October, 1968, exhibited mainly photographic documentation of their works in a group show called … Continue reading
Phantom of the Oprah
”On the one hand, he gambled on everything that traditionally secured the value, claim to validity, and hence authority of art and artists, while on the other hand he assumed the traditional patriarchal position of the messianic proclaimer of ultimate … Continue reading
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Tagged Avant-Garde Art, german art, Jan Verwoert, Joseph Beuys, Maimonides, Oprah Winfrey, pop art
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