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Tag Archives: Mark Vallen
future crock
Italian futurism….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is something I clipped somewhere a while back. No recollection of where it was, or when it was. I don’t know who did this and I don’t know when it was created, or whether … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art blog, art chantry, Benito Mussolini, corrado cagli, dante baldelli, Donald Trump, enrico prampolini, Filippo Marinetti, Frederico Fellini, Italian Futurist art, Italian Futurists, Madame Pickwick, Mark Vallen, Prampolini, r.a. bertelli, Walter Benjamin
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disruptive mobility: mop up the unemployed imagination
Art that contradicts by showing its contradictions, its unresolvable tensions, will usually end up being debunked and marginalized as a distortion to a broader picture.A random anomaly to be forgotten. There is a tendency to want to keep our morals, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bersani, Cindy Sherman, Colin Maccabe, Conrad Felixmuller, Craig Owens, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Edward Bernays, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, George Grosz, Gottfried Helnwein, Goya, Guy Debord, Leo Bersani, Mark Vallen, Max Beckmann, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit
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dix & the creative curse: if hollywood say so its O.K.
The idea was to find an idiom that best suited him to criticize the society he found himself: essentially, a capitalist bourgeois Germany. After returning from the front, he passed through the expressionist, futurist and dada schools before settling on … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Christian Schad, Christopher Hitchens, David Seidler, Donald Kuspit, Franz Radziwill, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Lucas Cranach, Mark Vallen, Neville Chamberlain, Otto Dix, Rob Candelino, Russell Smith, Seidler king's Speech, Stuart Elliott, Travis English
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alienating and liberating
The art of Hollywood, or really the business of Hollywood is to dumb and trivialize any critical currents into marketable product. Absorption and coop-tion skills that dumb everything down into cheap neutral entertainment where meaningful content is parceled into bite-sized … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bernays, Bernie Madoff, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Rollason, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, Eisenstein, Esther Leslie, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Sergei Eisenstein, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin
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$#*! That’s real real gone
Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or sermon or ritual. To Otto Dix, death was not … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Phillips, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Maja, Leo Bersani, Marcel marceau, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Richard Poirier, Robert Fulford, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit, Viktor Frankl
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the deaf man’s house: paint it black
Somehow with Francisco Goya, we never quite ask why a man whose friends in maturity were among the most enlightened thinkers and the most devoted moralists of the age of reason; a man who, we have kept telling ourselves, shared … Continue reading
distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation
Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Bishop, Donald Kuspit, Edward Bernays, German Expressionism, Gilles Deleuze, Guy Debord, hemingway, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Mark Vallen, Marshall McCluhan, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Brenson, Otto Dix, Paul Maizer, Pierre Schaeffer, Roger Scruton, Theodor Adorno, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin, Walter Lippman
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caprichos: folly ridden assemblies
The “Caprichos” of Francisco Goya were among the first etchings to be done with aquatint, and were completed between 1796 and 1798 then put on sale the following year in book form. They had begun to take shape in the … Continue reading