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Tag Archives: Marcel Duchamp
heretics and art: unorthodox conceptions
We seem to be living in the age of the heretic. The orthodox Church of heresy.Is the new heresy to accept that there are many rules? Is it a heresy to swim with the tide? Are those “rebels” really actually … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Certosa di Pavia, Chris Burden, E.H. Gombrich, Edmund Gurney, Edward Gibbon, Eleanor Heartney, Erasmus, Gale Iain, joel-peter witkin, John Vicar, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Paul Rubens, Protestant Reformation, Puritan England, seth godin
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those heretics: searching for the kingdom of saints
Mysticism, whether heretical or not, is often the refuge of defeated radicalism.Messianist German Anabaptists would become pacifist, mystical Mennonites, and the messianic English “Fifth Monarchy Men” would become pacifist, mystical Quakers. The wild millenarians, The Seers; there is no shortage … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albigensian Church, Arnold of Brescia, brenda zlamany, English Fifth Monarchy Men, Joachim of Floris, John Milton, John of Leiden, John Wycliffe, Lollard Revolt, Marcel Duchamp, Mergery Kempe, Peter Waldo, Richard Rolle, Roger Waters Separation Wall, Ruysbroeck, Sami Michael, Steven Plaut, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, Thomas a Kempis
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deep philosophy or conceptual quip?
The greatest philosopher in modern art? Or did the art world make him, artificially construct him into a “readymade” himself, the philosopher who would trash tradition and under the pretext of modernism and the new, engage in the kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Bernard von Lindenau, Damien Hirst, francis p. nauman, Giotto, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jeff Koons, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, mark polizzotti, Martin Heidegger, rudolf herz, The Enlightenment
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modernism: press the refresh button
Modernism as a ready made. The break with the past; the discarding of tradition. The shock of the new. Modernism struck at the heart of the conventional wisdom in the arts which meant that an aesthetic of plot, dramatic incident … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, anna freud, Art modernism, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Francis Nauman, francis p. nauman, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Janis Gallery, John Maynard Keynes, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, sidney janis, Walter Benjamin
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120 billion dollar bash
End of the Euro? It does seem that three is a crowd. And with the Euro, The American dollar and China as a nimble but nonetheless elephant in the room, it may be the Euro will slowly be dismembered and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alen Ginsberg, Angela Merkel, European Growth Pact, European Stability Mechanism ESM, francois hollande, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Larry Rivers, Marcel Duchamp, mark blyth, Niall Ferguson, Simon Tilford, Tom Wassermann, watson institute
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normal: what them worry?
Stiff necked? For sure. The perils of Pauline in the desert is clear evidence of that, an unruly nature not easily buying into the coach’s plans for victory and redemption,perhaps setting the seeds for the later exile. But today is … Continue reading
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Tagged Benny Gantz, Christopher Hitchens, daphni leef, David Ben Gurion, G.K. Chesterton, Gilles Deleuze, Harold Bloom, Joel Schalit, Marcel Duchamp, MK Michael Ben Ari, MK Regev, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Herzl, tony judt, Udi Aloni, Yassam special forces, Zionism
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doing battle with the muse: not a-mused
Is it intrinsic to modern art in general, a kind of withdrawal into a space, a locus of narcissistic preoccupation and obligation? A space where fear of the object leads to mistreatment of it. The aggressive and destructive impulses, which … Continue reading
sandusky: labyrinth of fourth and long
Sandusky is a kind of minotaur who sacrificed human victims. This primal, nihilistic rejection in which nearly everything is lost, shattered, despised, mocked and unrepairable. It suggests the sadism uses and abuses the body as an identification with a nightmarish … Continue reading
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