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inanimate itch for the kitsch: real men don’t eat kitsch?
Modernist culture is simply not animated by eternal values of the purity of art and abstract truth. Like the dinosaur it failed to adapt and we tossed the baby out with the bath water. Not surprisingly, Walter Benjamin said that … Continue reading
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Tagged bazzano-nelson, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Esther Leslie, godley and Creme, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Jeff Koons, kracauer, liliana porter, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Roger Scruton, Sigmund Freud, sylvia meyer, Theodor Adorno, W.H. Auden, Walter Benjamin
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guess who’s coming to dinner
The world had changed. To draw similarities with today is hazardous- the situation is more complex today- but some of the contexts bear semblance, the same family genes so to speak. When Chaplin met Einstein in January 1931, the financial … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, bernard riemann, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin the rink, Hannah Arendt, james j. sylvester, jennifer cooke, John Updike, kracauer, marcel grossman, max born, Max Horkheimer, max jammer, ross benjamin, susan buck-morss, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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