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ready, aim, fire: hold the curser till’ you see the white of their eyes
What Hollywood accomplishes best is to repackage. Like transformed food it strips the nutritional qualities into sugar coated and sodium charged calories that create addiction and dependency. The craft, for though there is no art, is a distilling, filtering and … Continue reading
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Tagged D.W. Griffith, Eric Rosenfield, Henry Lowood, Honore Daumier, John Heartfield, John Wayne, Max Beckmann, Nick Turse, Otto Dix, Otto DixGerman Art, Steven Spielberg, Theodor Adorno, Tim Lenoir, Tom Engelhardt, Walter Benjamin
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abberations from the ideal form
The German realist movement or broader German expressionist movement of the post WWI era that popularly characterizes Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann, and then links them into a category of depictions of corruption and a largesse of lifestyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Phillips, Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Alessandro Botticelli, Beckmann, Donald Kuspit, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, Intimate Strangers 2004, Jean Paul Sartre, Leo Bersani, Lucas Cranach, Matthias Grunewald, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Patrice Leconte, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sigmund Freud
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WEIMAR: “CREOLE LOVE CALL” on the Rhine
Everyone loves to throw around the Weimar metaphor, from pundit Glenn Beck to America’s anarchist in residence Noam Chomsky, and a contingent of microphone friendly snake oil salesmen in between…Crazy or sane, left or right, the analogies of fear mongering … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Schmitt, Conrad Felixmuller, Erhard Gopel, Eric D. Weitz, Ernst Junger, Franz Neumann, Frederik Taylor, Glenn Beck, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, James Fallows, James Fallows Guardian, Jankel Adler, Jeanne Mammen, John Maynard Keynes, Josephine Baker, Marcel Ronay, Martin Hutchinson, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Krugman, Sandy Levinson
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WEIMAR ARCADE: Shoot the Hypnotist First
Or is the hypnotist merely the decoy, the puppet of even greater evil? The Weimar resemblance? Its nervous, alienated, and often brilliant culture can seem uncomfortably like our own. But, is the sickness that killed the German Republic of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertram M. Gross, Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Ed Driscoll, Eric D. Weitz, Erich Maria Remarque, John Heartfield, Julien Benda, Kurt Weill, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Michael Brenner, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Thomas Mann
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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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THE WEIMAR “LAST TRANCE” CABARET: Escaping to Feed Your Head
For Walter Benjamin, this was the real significance of the First World War, “an attempt at a new and unprecedented commingling with the cosmic powers.” He worried that mankind’s alienation from itself was deepening “to such a degree that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertholt Brecht, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Mayer, David Weigel, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Glenn Beck, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, John Wonder, Kurt Weill, Lovis Corinth, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Mike Huckabee, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Whealy, Robert Wiene, Sen. Jim DeMint, Steven Ozmet, Walter Benjamin, Weimar Republic
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LOST GENERATION : RECLAIMED FROM THE WASTELAND
The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. At this point in time, America had become a great place to, “go into some … Continue reading
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Tagged Anatole france, Archibald MacLeish, Daniel Aaron, David Sanders, E.E. Cummings, Edward Bernays, Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Bernard Shaw, George Grosz, Gertrude Stein, Gold, Gustave Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Jackie Gross, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jill Tripodi, John Dos Passos, Joyce Ulysses, Marcel Proust, Max Beckmann, Neil Howe, Romaine Rolland, Stephane Mallarme, T.S. Eliot, Thorstein Veblen, William Faulkner, William Strauss
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SILENCE FILLED WITH VIVID NOISELESS BOYS
After graduation and on the eve of his embarkation for France as a “gentleman volunteer” ambulance driver,John Dos Passos’s letters almost exploded with rebellion. “I have been spending my time of late going to pacifist meetings and being dispersed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Seeger, Archibald MacLeish, Charles Nordhoff, Daniel Aaron, E.E. Cummings, Egon Schiele, Eric Kennington, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, John Reed, John Steinbeck, Malcolm Cowley, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Nathan Asch, Otto Dix, Richard Norton, Robert Service, Sandra Gilbert, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolf, Thornton Wilder
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RUNNING WITH LIONS:The Enigma of “The Idiot”
For all of them Henri Rousseau was the “venerable child” of art, the great primitive who lived and worked beyond the reach of damaging speculation and sophistication, at one with himself, original, as nature had made him. Conscious, deliberate action … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Malraux, Andre Salmon, Cornelia Stabenow, Cubism, Dostoevski, Edgar Degas, Fernando Botero, Franz Marc, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giorgio de Chirico, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde
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