Tag Archives: martin gough

artistic terror : conceptual cowardice?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dave

Is Marcel Duchamp a terrorist? In a figurative sense, a weapon of mass destruction. The super-bomb/dirty bomb alchemical chain reaction where crap is turned into monetary gold. Clearly, with the ready-made, there was an initial anti-hierarchical space of thought, something … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Potter, Arthur Koestler, Edouard Manet, Edward Bernays, elliott barowitz, francis p. nauman, Heinrich Hoffmann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath rebel sell, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, mark sagof, martin gough, norman kleeblatt, Pablo Picasso, renato poggioli, robert graham sculpture, rudolf herz, sidney janis, stephen foster, thomas frank the baffler, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

an original of a copy

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dave

But, then is not the artist themselves, whether man or woman, merely a “copy” an “imitation” even a forgery of the original’ the original first, man and women, of which after the Fall have lot their original aura, their sense … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alfred lessing, Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, Dietrich Fey, Han Van Meegeren, Jan Vermeer, Johannes Vermeer, Lothar Malskat, martin gough, max stern, max sterner, oswald hanfly, Pablo Picasso, Roland Barthes, Thorstein Veblen, timothy binkley, vermeer forgeries, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

down the amazon: art jungle

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave

Aesthetics is a very complex issue. But is insolubly linked to economics, taste and design. More profoundly, are aesthetic considerations merely another marker, another sign of decadence. Donald Kuspit’s controversial article on the art market several years ago , written … Continue reading →