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Tag Archives: Max Ernst
dada dum dada not so dum
Unsureness and confusion, in the sphere of Dada opinion, became a positive value, and one that had lethal effect of what could be termed systems of hierarchy and classification. Like Alfred Jarry, dada postulated a “pataphysical” logic of absurdity that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Dada Art, John Heartfield, Max Ernst
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shelter of a “false face”
In our own puerile way we sometimes take sanctuary behind impenetrable eyeglasses. For years, old and young have been wearing dark spectacles at all waking hours and in the gloomiest of places. And there are always men who rediscover another … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Breton, Andre Breton masks, Arthur Schopenhauer, Enrico Donati, Louis V. Shotridge, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Ernst, Peabody Museum Yale, Samuel Pepys, Surrealism, Tlingit masks, wolfgang paalen
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Naples down under
How they live and die in Naples. It was quite a collaboration. A great Italian film director interviewed his fellow citizens, while a leading German photographer recorded them. The result was a poignant document of humanity and heartbreak that very … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andreas Feininger, Bicycle Thief De Sica, Hans Bellmer, Herbert List, Herbert List photography, Lyonel Feinninger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Ernst, Napoli Vittorio De Sica, Robert Capa, Stephen Spender, Studs Terkel, vittorio de sica
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from whence she came
Intentional crisis that got out of hand? Power grab by Germany and will they serve as the patsy of choice again? It’s a shadowy sort of dance we are witnessing in Europe and for many it doesn’t make sense. The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged angela merkel hitler daughter, doug saunders globe and mail, francois hollande, Greek debt crisis, horst kasner, indignados movement spain, Jim Rickards, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth brown university, Max Ernst, oskar schlemmer, Richard Wagner, Thorstein Veblen
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eccentric patrons
By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexander Calder, Anton Gill, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glynis Bell, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Robert Motherwell, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Hart Benton
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peggy
The Buddenbrook’s Syndrome according to Thomas Mann was the rags to riches to shirtsleeves scenario, where the drive to continue to accumulate great wealth would diminish through succeeding generations; a waning enthusiasm for grabbing the bull by the horns. By … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Courmes, Benjamin Guggenheim, Buddenbrooks syndrome, Caspar David Friedrich, Herbert Read Museum director, Hilla Rebay, Jacqueline Weld, leonora carrington, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Michele C. Cone, Peggy Guggenheim, Rudolf Bauer, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Mann
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“all one needs is to be able to see”
It does appear to be beyond nominal doubt that the team of Craig Braun and Tom Wilkes pilfered to a large degree the work of Lol Creme and Kevin Godley for the Alice Cooper album School’s Out. The former’s Hotlegs … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alice cooper, Andre Breton, boris lurie, Craig Braun, GG/06, graham gouldman, Hotlegs group, karen levine, kevin godley, lol creme, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Tom Wilkes, Walter Benjamin, Wilkes & Braun, Yves Tanguay
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boutique atheism : babel banter
What are the limits of scientific rationalism? But what actually is atheism, besides an ecological and scientific dirt disher despite Chris Hitchens perhaps stuck in limbo, a purgatory of the missionary position somewhere in rhetorical rebuttal to the anal perversions … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged A.C Grayling, alain de botton, Alfred Stieglitz, Ashcan School, Christopher Hitchens, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, John Updike, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Heidegger, Max Ernst, Niall Ferguson, Stephen Fry, Thorstein Veblen, william glackens
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paranoid spittled walls
This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking … Continue reading
kipling the esoteric: the a.r.k. man
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) rudyard kipling is a very famous name in literature. for instance, he was the very first english speaking recipient (and the youngest) of the nobel prize in literature (1907). we all studied him and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, Arthur Rackham, aubrey beardsley, blavatsky theosophy, Helena Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, j.j. school of art and industry, kipling the jungle book, lockwood kipling, masonic ritual, Max Ernst, Rudyard Kipling, rudyard kipling illustrator, rudyard kipling manji, Steven Heller, William Blake
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