Tag Archives: margaret bourke-white

No! Art: confrontations on betrayal

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Dave

It was at the expense of good manners.Its an alternate method to engage oneself with memory. The burbling graphic images resurfaced later in etchings, paintings and collages like blood clots moving through hardened arteries. Alternating between the jarring and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged boris lurie, dietmar kirves, Donald Kuspit, Edward S. Herman, edward s. hermann, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Harold Rosenberg, Immanuel Kant, margaret bourke-white, Pablo Picasso, Raul Hilberg, sam goodman, stanley fisher, wilfred bion | Leave a comment

is-real-thing: endless solutions

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Dave

It is difficult to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue in anything approaching what could be termed a “common sense” way. The conventional wisdom is that we are even handed, or that some form of pseudo-historical junk science as religion “special status” … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged a.m. klein, alan schechner, Claude Levi-Strauss, henry wentworth monk, ivan c. rand, joshua neustein, lester b. pearson, margaret bourke-white, ram katzir, Rick Salutin, roee rosen, sigalit landau, Stephen Harper, Tom Sachs, yves engler | Leave a comment

where the truth lies: what is “the real thing” ?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dave

We are often convinced we are looking at a seamless and accurate depiction of reality and the shock involved is the realization that it is not quite so obvious as we thought… What are the boundaries of artistic representation and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan schechner, Art Spiegelman, Bell Hooks, Donald Kuspit, Gottfried Helnwein, holocaust art, Jennifer Peto, Jonathan Kay national Post, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, matthew frye jacobson, richard kazis, rudolf herz, terry fincher, Tom Sachs, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

alchemy of art: jangling the keys of solomon

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Dave

With secret sound. The liberation of the subjective self. Magic squares and alchemy in art lending hermetic interpretations to deciphering works of art.It was the irresistible lure of certain of the Magic Squares of the Third Book, and their tendency … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan schechner, anna freud, calvin tomkins, Donald Kuspit, eliphas levi, elliott barowitz, Florine Stettheimer, francis m. naumann, Heinrich Hoffmann, katherine dreier, katherine s. dreier, MacGregor-Mathers, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, Michael Kimmelman, otto fenichel, rudolf herz, Rudolf Steiner, Walter Arensberg, Wassily Kandinsky, willaim agee | Leave a comment

guilty by juxtaposition

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dave

A peculiar combination of context and coincidence.A new aesthetic discourse in Nazi representation. Is there an aesthetics of fascism? Rudolf Herz is the artist who took the seemingly incongruous combination of Hitler and Marcel Duchamp and combined the two in … Continue reading →