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Tag Archives: Leo Bersani
slow worker
from Giorgio Vasari’s account of Leonardo and his work on the Last Supper, his unconventional disposition, his salesmanship and the perplexing bent of secular humanism which was disconcerting to the defenders of the faith…. He also painted in Milan, for … Continue reading
paranoid spittled walls
This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking … Continue reading
closet painter
A “flamboyant homosexual” as Dan Brown labeled Leonardo is misleading and irrelevant unless the author was searching for a DNA code for gay tendencies and not the other trail of splatter leading to the holy grail. Although a kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged cynthia fuchs epstein, Da Vinci Burlington House Cartoon, da Vinci London Cartoon, dan brown da vinci code, Donald Kuspit, Giorgio Vasari, Jonathan Jones Guardian, klaus herding, Leo Bersani, Peter Paul Rubens, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud leonardo
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genet: love comes in spurts
.Masks. Mirrors. Symbols. Rituals, dreams and trances… Jean Genet’s The Blacks is constructed of two simultaneous plays within the play, one performed on stage, the other out in the wings. When the lights come up, several couples are discovered turning … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, angela davis, Edmund White, hadrien laroche, Hannah Arendt, jane fonda, Jean Paul Sartre, jessica mitford, Ken Kesey, Leo Bersani, Leonor fini, martin kramer, Michael McClure, Michel Foucault, steven maynard, steven mayrand, tom hayden
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disruptive mobility: mop up the unemployed imagination
Art that contradicts by showing its contradictions, its unresolvable tensions, will usually end up being debunked and marginalized as a distortion to a broader picture.A random anomaly to be forgotten. There is a tendency to want to keep our morals, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bersani, Cindy Sherman, Colin Maccabe, Conrad Felixmuller, Craig Owens, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Edward Bernays, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, George Grosz, Gottfried Helnwein, Goya, Guy Debord, Leo Bersani, Mark Vallen, Max Beckmann, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit
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abberations from the ideal form
The German realist movement or broader German expressionist movement of the post WWI era that popularly characterizes Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann, and then links them into a category of depictions of corruption and a largesse of lifestyle … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Phillips, Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Alessandro Botticelli, Beckmann, Donald Kuspit, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, Intimate Strangers 2004, Jean Paul Sartre, Leo Bersani, Lucas Cranach, Matthias Grunewald, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Patrice Leconte, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sigmund Freud
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$#*! That’s real real gone
Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or sermon or ritual. To Otto Dix, death was not … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Phillips, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Maja, Leo Bersani, Marcel marceau, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Richard Poirier, Robert Fulford, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit, Viktor Frankl
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