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l’amour fou: abstract extreme ambivalence

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dave

Surrealism as an inherently anti-woman movement? The female body viewed as primitive machines designed socially,psychologically and mechanically to carry out primitive functions.This intensity and dept of a response to women was a rupture with traditional figurative art, a certain appropriation … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, claude cahun, D.H. Lawrence, Donald Kuspit, dorothy tanning, eileen agar, Hans Bellmer, keresz, lee miller, raoul ubac, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism | Leave a comment

guilty by juxtaposition

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dave

A peculiar combination of context and coincidence.A new aesthetic discourse in Nazi representation. Is there an aesthetics of fascism? Rudolf Herz is the artist who took the seemingly incongruous combination of Hitler and Marcel Duchamp and combined the two in … Continue reading →