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All the arguments for de-legitimizing Israel are fair game. Not for the supposed and ostensible reasons we usually hear, excessive violence, and racism for example, but because the country is totally inept, and for its own security and those of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ami Popper, Amos Oz, Ben Dror Yemini, Bob Dylan, bob dylan world gone wrong, Franz Kafka, George Grosz, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthias Grunewald, Max Brod, MK Shlomo Benizri, Moshe Katsav, Ray Caesar art, Ron Myberg, shimon peres, Steven Plaut
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enlightenment by design: build a better world?
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Arthur Gobineau, Ben Grasso, Friedrich Nietzsche, giovanni battista vico, Herder linguist, Horace Walpole, John Maynard Keynes, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer, Paul Gauguin, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire
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wild bauhaus bohemians: mechanical paradise
A “house for building” is what Walter Gropius called the new school he founded in Germany in 1919. But the Bauhaus was much more than its modest name implies: it was a force that changed the shape of the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged anna freud, Clement Greenberg, georg muche, joost schmidt, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, Paul Klee, Thomas Mann, ulrike muller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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unconscious aggression: the blind minotaur
“When one has no character, one must have a method.” (Camus ) How can one reconcile such an atrocious human being with art? Unless its an art that glorifies the ugly, the sadistic; an impulse drunk on misogyny that craved … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Clement Greenberg, Douglas Cooper, Friedrich Nietzsche, h. blum, kincaid paintings, Lyonel Feininger, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Richard Wagner, roland penrose, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, walter kaufmann
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variations of destructive mockery
Overrated? Is it true that Picasso could pathologically destroy, or sabotage paintings of the old masters by sullying and subverting them? Is it simple playfulness,a prank,a mockery, a tribute, or an attempt to surpass the original? Strip Picasso of his … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Diego Velazquez, Donald Kuspit, Douglas Cooper, freddie rokem, john bratby, Lyonel Feininger, melanie klein, miles w. mathis, Pablo Picasso, pierre cabane, Rembrandt, roland penrose, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, susan buck-morss, susan galassi, Walter Benjamin
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fathers and sons: leaving traces
It was a school that combined crafts and fine arts, and conceptually followed a basic idea that mass-production was reconcilable with individual artistic spirit. Founded at Weimar in 1919, Bauhaus concepts of art were particularly influenced by Modernism. That is, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Clement Greenberg, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Stephane Mallarme, t.lux feininger, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC and the UNCANNY “SECOND SIGHT”
“A member asked what was the ethos of German Expressionism, suggesting it was ‘cultural despair’. The speaker reiterated his title phrase: ‘an explosive cocktail of cultural despair and political instability’, adding that the German character seemed almost morbid in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Zuckermayer, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Emil Jannings, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, George J.W. Goodman, Heinrich Mann, Howard Buffet, James Turk, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Proyect, Lyonel Feininger, Marianne Faithfull, Marlene Dietrich, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Gough, Paul Klee, Peter Rex Valentine, Richard Nixon, Rosa Luxemburg, Seth Taylor, Walter Gropius, Warren Buffet, Wassily Kandinsky
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