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striving to please: the second tear
It always strives to please. Pleasing and self-congatulating as a ready-made. Kitsch. The inevitable feature of an art in which too much money and desire is chasing too little taste and knowledge. If Kitsch is like the common cold, impossible … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Clive Bell, David Hume, Denis Dutton, Fernand Leger, Hannah Hoch, Harold Rosenberg, hermann broch, Howard Jacobson, john currin, Luke Fildes, Marcel Duchamp, Mel Brooks The Producers, milan kindera, stuart davis, Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, tomas kulka, Walter Benjamin
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kicking the can down the road: again
There is no doubt that poverty is degrading, and through force, legislation, moral suasion,manipulation, blackmail, soft euthanasia, and “gaming” democracy and elementary social responsibility we have gloriously succeeded in creating the scenario for economic collapse and social and political insurrection. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Amy Goodman, Bobby Seale, Camp Forest tent city, cornel west, Emile Durkheim, erskine nichol painter, erskine nicol painter, Ford Madox Ford, Frans Hals, frederick walker paintings, george elgar hicks, harry belafonte, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Luke Fildes, Martin Luther King, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, sir samuel luke fildes, Stephen Colbert, tavis smiley, ted sanderson, the Heritage Foundation, tim geithner, war on poverty
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SCHOOLBOY IN VICARIOUS DISGRACE
”His brief stint at the Blacking Factory haunted him all of his life — he spoke of it only to his wife and to his closest friend, John Forster — but the dark secret became a source both of creative … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abraham Solomon, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Charles Dickens John Forster, Dickens Bob Fagin, Dickens David Copperfield, Dickens Great Expectations, Dickens James Lamert, Dickens Marshalea Prison, Dickens Pickwick papers, Elizabeth Dickens, Fanny Dickens, G.F. Watts, George Edgar Hicks, George Frederick Watts, James Lamert, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, John Forster, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Luke Fildes, Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, Susan L. Reviere, Warren's Blacking Factory, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith
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