Tag Archives: Michel Foucault

five O’clock paris … one hour and one spot

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave

The “experimental novel” of Claude Mauriac. The Marquise Went Out at Five. Paul Valery, asked why he never embarked on a novel said, “I could not bear to write down the words, ‘The Marquise Went Out At Five.’” A poet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Claude Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, French experimental literature, Laurent Terzieff, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, Paul Valery, the velvet underground | Leave a comment

the saturday evening you’re toast

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Dave

Is disavowal repressing something unbearable, or at least sublimating it something more palatable and socially acceptable? What often arises is the concept of innocence, a byproduct of this process of disavowal and reluctance to own up and acknowledge what one … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, da Vinci London Cartoon, Frans Hals, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinz Kohut, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Norman Rockwell, sarah kofman, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

halls of mirrors

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Dave

The paradox of representation is that it is never real. It remains a fragment of cultural dialog that even if conceived in the absence of narrative finishes by providing one. Both Singer’s Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and Velazquez’s las … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Diego Velazquez, erica e. hirshler, Franz Kafka, gareth hawker, Henry James, James McNeill Whistler, joel snyder, John Singer Sargent, mark brown guardian, Megan Marshall, Michel Foucault, radek | Leave a comment

imagination: leaving the gray elysium

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dave

An ambivalence to life reflected nowhere more so than the child’s relationship to memory, at once complete, graphic and epic yet vague, blurry and unfinished. And why not, given the facility to escape, to flee at one’s leisure the fairytale … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Ernst Bloch, Francisco Goya, Goethe color theory, Jacob Boehme, Jan Steen, jean paul writer, johann ludwig tieck, Michel Foucault, philipp otto runge, phillip otto runge, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Reich, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

ragged glory

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Dave

The first impression is of some weekend painter with a crude, vulgar, unskilled hand depicting mercenary goons, violence, power, subjugation, and a whole stock of themes from the politically correct almanac. Once that prejudice falls away there is something quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Donald Kuspit, Francisco Goya, Jasper Johns, Leon Golub, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Nancy Spero, Philip Guston | Leave a comment

prodigal children aware of time

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Dave

To trust, to put faith into the emotional life. To unencumber oneself of the layers of reason and logic, the common sense of classicism that had dominated art to that point. Romantic visions, but with a classical foundation. It added … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Diego Velazquez, Francisco Goya, Girodet, Jacques-Louis David, las meninas velazquez, Michel Foucault, sylvain bellenger, Theodore Gericault | Leave a comment

evil genius as madly creative

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dave

Is creativity always beneficial? Does it always lead to good outcomes? The study was called the dark side of creativity: original thinkers can be more dishonest. No, it was not written by Edgar Allan Poe, but it would make a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill gates, claude rains, dan ariely, Derrida, emmanuel levinas, francesca gino, Fritz Lang Metropolis, H.G. Wells, Hannah Arendt, jared harris, lorraine gammon, Marquis de Sade, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Simon Houpt, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

lego : mirroring evil

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dave

A funny spoof on Lego sets and toy commercials is circulating on YouTube, but humorous in a somewhat disconcerting way. Almost a decade ago, Donald Kuspit made a famous assertion on a Rudolf Herz piece of art showing photos of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Donald Kuspit, john pike, lego cops and robbers, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, occupy wall street: the lego set, rachael liberman, rebecca walker, rudolf herz, zbigniew libera | Leave a comment

mad men

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Dave

There was really no resemblance to social man. Artistically, a soul at war with the body in such visceral representations had heretofore gone unrepresented. The depiction of unreason in all its unfathomable, compelling, yet repulsive splendor. It was the beginning … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged ernst kris, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, friedrich nicolai, Heinrich Heine, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Marquis de Sade, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, zacchias | Leave a comment

reality: it ain’t necessarily so

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

At issue is whether meaning is an objective reality as opposed to an elaborated form of plain vanilla illusion arising from perception and dressed to the nines or is meaning a subjective reality, a fluid boundary shifter that reflects that … Continue reading →