Tag Archives: lynn h. nicholas

when the grim reaper won’t leave

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Dave

A bit problematic to be German. Still. The long arc of history is easily within an arm’s reach of the old Germany, tortured, and with a romantic sensibility of subject confronted with a bleak Germanism that marked the new realism. … Continue reading →

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degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dave

Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading →

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the collector: “our Hermann”

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Dave

Or so he was called by the die-hards. Hermann Goering functioned as a leading symbol of all the perversity modernity could bring to bear and a living 3-D demonstration of the power of instrumental reason over our lives. The Nuremberg … Continue reading →

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