Tag Archives: Ludwig Wittgenstein

EXIT POLL ON ANNOYING LANGUAGE: Dreaming Without Meaning

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Dave

The most annoying words:If you’re like, “whatever,” and someone gives you a mean look, just remember it is what it is – certain sayings rub people the wrong way, you know? Anyway, at the end of the day, who cares? … Continue reading →

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A WOMAN’S GAZE & THE FEMALE IDEAL:Ordained To Be Seen But Not Heard?

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Dave

“Either it really exists or else I have conjured it up so often that it might as well. The painting belongs to a familiar genre – that of the pensive figure in the garden . . . A woman in … Continue reading →

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SACRAMENTS OF MARRIAGE: Take Your Shoes Off

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Dave

Jan van Eyck, of all artists, is the one who proves that turning to the world need not mean reduction to the commonplace, and of all his paintings, the double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride, Jeanne Cenami, is … Continue reading →

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PRIVATE LANGUAGE and SACRED CONVERSATIONS

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Dave

Encounters with robbers in the desert…No need for the cross of salvation?…..An esoteric language, an Aristolean network, an ambiguity, or “pentimenti”–changes of mind— of additional, multiple and complex narratives under the surface….. The mystery intrigues and continues to prevail…. The … Continue reading →

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$ AS A READY-MADE : TZANCK You For The CHECKS

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dave

Conceptual art will soon be one hundred years old and it is arguably viewed with as much suspicion now as it was in 1917 when Marcel Duchamp first submitted a signed urinal for inclusion in an art show in New … Continue reading →

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LANGUAGE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Dave

By detaching art from aesthetics,Marcel Duchamp set it spinning on a different course from the one it had followed since the Renaissance. His concept of the ready-made work of art came out of the blue. It could not have been … Continue reading →

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OLD VIENNA OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Psychic Conflict, Anxiety and Hysteria

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Dave

In a letter written in 1892 to Wilhelm Fliess, Freud made a remark, ” No neurasthenia or analogous neurosis exists without a disturbance in the sexual function.” “I am pretty well alone here in tackling the neuroses. They regard me … Continue reading →

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CÉZANNE:ABOLISHING THE TYRANNY OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE…. FOREVER

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Dave

Catagorizing the style of Paul Cézanne’s( 1839-1906 ) artwork is problematic. As a young man he left his home in Provence in the south of France in order to join with the avant-garde in Paris. He fell in with the … Continue reading →

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DIE HARD: BRINGING DOWN THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Dave

Marjorie Perloff has described how “Wittgenstein’s language games have provided models for poetic composition,” and concluded that, for him “the ‘ordinary’ . . . turns out to be, after all, capable of being seen as the ‘aesthetic’” With regard to … Continue reading →

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THE PRODIGIES: CHECK-MATE ON GENIUS

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Dave

The cutoff for what is often considered ”gifted” is an IQ score that is among the top two percent of the population, which is a score of 130 on the Wechsler scales, or 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale. This sole … Continue reading →