Tag Archives: Louis Sass

soul portrait: mirror of the moon

Is there a moon in the soul, slivery shivers of light acting as an electro-magnetic field absorbing and expanding sensorial perceptions, like a flashlight vaguely illuminating a dark and unknown attic of our mind…. I saw the best minds of … Continue reading

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cairo: flights into egypt

Sensationalism.The aesthetic of violence in the Society of the Spectacle. The birth of the agitated space and a relishing of absurd charismatic appeal. Art, like the society around it, became caught between the joy of freedom and the fear of … Continue reading

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REAL MAD, SOMEWHAT BAD & A LOT OF KITSCH

Henry Fuseli’s ghostly and frightening subject-matter was a visual continuum of the Gothic novel, which developed an aesthetics of terror and horror, was occupied with dreams and the unconscious, and often looked back to the feudal world. Fuseli once said, … Continue reading

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