Tag Archives: Leni Riefenstahl

descent worries and anxiety: “easy delight”

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dave

I came across a biography of Maria Landrock who was a celebrity star during the Third Reich. It does force one to look at the role of popular entertainment within its context as part of the entertainment industry pushed to … Continue reading →

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skin deep

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dave

Its at the nexus, that volatile inflection point between emotion and capitalism somehow tied into the fascist aryan ideal of beauty. A world of choreography following the Leni Riefenstahl template. I faintly remember my grandmother pushing me to eat, to … Continue reading →

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doctor i’d like a divine proportion

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Dave

McBeauty. Is happiness an inside job? If it ain’t broken don’t fix it. Hardly.No black swans. Cosmetic surgery, a procrastination of the genetic code is situated at the charged sweet spot between emotion and capitalism. A heady mix. Part of … Continue reading →

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somewhere down that crazy river

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Dave

Body painting. It has to be considered to be one of the oldest forms of art. Way before people covered themselves in clothes, they clothed themselves with pigments. Basically bright mineral paints that temporarily embellished the skin and the use … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged alice prin, Andre Breton, hans silvester, Leni Riefenstahl, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Susan Sontag, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

jackboots and the aura of love: from dada to dachau

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Dave

Its difficult to ascertain precisely why Salvador Dali seemed attracted to fascism, and drawn to something in the aesthetic, unless at something in less manifest sense, there was a convergence between fascism and eroticism. The eroticization of the fascist existed … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged descharnes, Dorothea Tanning, Georges Bataille, Gilles Néret, Jean Genet, Laura Frost, Leni Riefenstahl, Leonor fini, leonora carrington, Louis Aragon, Luis Bunuel, ruth brandon, Salvador dali, Susan Sontag, Vincente Navarro | 1 Comment

revenge of the mediocre: all hail the chief

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Dave

The Aryan myth. It started simply enough as an irresoluble issue in comparative linguistics at the the dawn of the Romantic Age. Then, caught between quack science, nationalist fervor, and raw emotion, it transformed itself into a full-fledged theory of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Angelica Kauffmann, emil schiebe, Frederic Spotts, geoffrey wheatcroft, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, hugo hoppener, hugo hoppener fidus, James Young, Leni Riefenstahl, Max Horkheimer, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Wagner, sepp hilz, Theodor Adorno | 1 Comment

I’m O.K you’re not O.K: Death wish

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Dave

Self-destruction as aesthetic pleasure? The Aryan myth was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century. From there it assumed proportions of a full-fledged racial theory in the Romantic age that welded sentimentality, blood, … Continue reading →

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life on parade: playing dress up

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Dave

It was the Aryan myth. It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics, grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization….. Steven Heller: In fact, Hugo Boss was the designer back … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arno Breker, Arthur Szyk, Bryan Ferry, Filippo Marinetti, Frederic Spotts, Georges Bataille, James Young, Jean Genet, Joseph Thorak, Julius Paul Junghanns, Kerry Bolton, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Steven Heller, Susan Sontag | Leave a comment

myths and madness

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Dave

It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics; it grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization. The Aryan myth….. The most famous proponent of the Aryan myth was Count Arthur … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Janesh, alys eve weinbaum, Arno Breker, arthur de gobineau, Hubert Lanzinger, Joseph Thorak, Leni Riefenstahl, Max Muller, Walter Benjamin | 3 Comments

terrifyingly normal: throw them to the wolves

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Dave

In no other field of social science has prejudice more disastrously masqueraded as fact than in the study of race. Myth has pervaded discussions of race throughout the history of Western civilization. The mythmakers have exploited the popular associations of … Continue reading →