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Tag Archives: Otto Dix
the hidden look: looks within looks
In a way, Zionism is explainable in its zeal to create a “new jew” ; an act of nihilism to consign to the dust-bin of history the entire diasporic experience of jewish life pulverized by the atomic bomb of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba Kovner, Alfred Rosenberg, Arthur Dinter, Arthur Koestler, eichmann trial, Felix Nussbaum, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Singer, J.F. Blumenbach, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Martin Englander, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, rich cohen author, roman vishniac, roman vishniak, Theodor Lessing, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Reich
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avoiding the seductive charms of despair
“Returning form Syracuse?” ….Four hundred years ago, the French “politiques” advanced the novel, and totally subversive notion of the time that people of different religious persuasions could live together, in peace, in the same country and under the same sovereign. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged daniel ludwig, Ernest Juenger, Frank Stella art, Friedrich Nietzsche, friedrich schelling, gadamer, Hannah Arendt, Hegel Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Oswald Spengler, Otto Dix, The Enlightenment, Voltaire
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redemption through damascus gate
Society of the Spectacle. A game. In part, an attempt to gain social acceptance in an environment hostile towards Jews or can it be attributable to an infantile effort to correct a haunting victim status through self-blame, the kinds of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Dershowitz, benny morris, De Paul University Norman Finkelstein, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Israel Shamir, Jeff Halper ICAHD, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Dix, Ruthie Blum, Salvoj Zizek, Steven Plaut, Yair Lapid
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hanging by a thread
Max Beckmann studied medieval German art, the triptychs, loaded with gory, violent scenes of Christian martyrdom, at its most inglorious and vulgar incarnations of the human grotesque. In his modern condition, the contradictions of Weimar, there is none of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Erhard Gopel, fabrizio Laurenti, George Grosz, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Mussolini hanged, New Objectivity painting, Otto Dix, Piazzale Loreto, sergio luzzatto, Theodor Adorno, Weimar Germany art
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a little truth to power
The pop culture hacker. Really a post-modern artist and a critic of capitalism, the entire apparatus of the Evil Empire in all its ugly glory and self rationalizations and justifications for the dirty deeds and power to make others do … Continue reading
americana as cultural habitat
Much in the vein of Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray and even the art of Jack Levine, its modern protest satire that helped define the left of center cultural aesthetic. The left cultural industry machine that by nature is part of … Continue reading
easel does it: I’ll paint with my donkey
Old easels never die, they just drag themselves into the woods on their last legs to become recycled, resurrected again to serve the aims of art. When painting came off the wall and onto the floor, the deed was done … Continue reading
discarding the forced, formal and faked
Orgasms of nihilism. A typically contrarian view, and one that labels Picasso as a minor artist. Essentially, an attack on the formalism intrinsic to modernism which entails a crowding out, indeed suffocation of the spiritual content. Cubism, was after all, … Continue reading
where shall i find thee?
It seems like nonsense anointing this writer as the torchbearer for Jewish writing. To be a Jewish writer you have to actually have a connection with Judaism. Otherwise what is left is a “culturally” jewish writer or a Jewish writer … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, alfred flechtheim, Anne Frank, boris lurie, Chaim Potok, Hieronymous Bosch, Howard Jacobson, Irving Layton, Michael Lewis, Nathan Englander, Otto Dix, Otto Frank, wilfred bion
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