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spiritually diseased please
There was a famous line attributed to Walter Benjamin that captures somewhat the problem the Nazi’s had with what they termed “degenerate art,” which lacked the necessary material underpinnings to easily transform itself into unchallenging kitsch. Benjamin’s “logical result of … Continue reading →
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Tagged alexander mitscherlich, David Grubin, Degenerate Art Exhibit 1937, diane thodos, Donald Kuspit, el lissitzky, Emil Nolde, gitta sereny, godley and Creme, Leni Riefenstahl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marg Moll, Max Horkheimer, Naom Slutzky, Otto Dix, Otto Freundlich, Peter barnes, Peter Barnes plays, Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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tumbling dice: rocking the casbah
In the disapora, the absence of political sovereignty presented some opportunities for self-improvement, it was never regarded as an end in itself. Much like the Old Country proverb about dying, it was more of a tradition than a good deed. … Continue reading →
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Tagged denis goldberg, Edmond de Rothschild, frumkin commission, gush emunim, ICAHD Jerusalem, jabotinsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm X, meir margalit, Moses Montefiore, Moshe Feiglin, Norman Finkelstein, Peter barnes, Zvi Zameret
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DIDO FORSAKEN: Duties of the Ruling Class
Peter Barnes gained almost instant recognition, from relative obscurity with his play “The Ruling Class” in the late 1960’s. The play came at the height of the 1960s counterculture movement, when the youth of the western world began to openly … Continue reading →
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Beau Brummel, Bertolt Brecht, Brian Sewell, Charles James Fox, Dr. Ben Johnson, Edward Bond, George Cruickshank, George Cruikshank, George Hangar, Henry Holland, Ian Christie, John Arden, John Nash, King George III, Lady Letitia Lade, Lady Letta Lade, Lord Barrymore, Michel Garnier, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Peter barnes, Peter Nichols, R.D. Laing, Rex Whistler, Robert Cruickshank, Robert Cruikshank, Sir John Lade, Thomas Kemp, Thomas Rowlandson, Zoe Brennan
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Small Little Freaks & Urban Rumors
Is bigger always better. Are the large stone figures on Easter island. ….puppets? Shambling along the shoreline of Easter Island with its stone statues cradled under his arms. Germut, the nephew of the biblical Goliath was arrested by 300 crewman … Continue reading →
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Tagged Avenue Q, Benjamin Carr, Clea Minaker, Consumerism, curse of the puppet master, Dante, Dante Alighieri, David Schmoeller, Easter Island, Gulliver's Travels, James bradshaw, john Lambert, Jonathan Swift, Josef Skupa, Marionettes, Militarism, Moai Statues, National Theatre's War Horse, Peter barnes, Playwrights Canada press, puppet theater, puppet theatre, Puppeteering, Puppets, racism, rivka jacobson, Robert Lepage, Ronnie Burkett, siminovitch prize, Spejbl and Hurvinek, The Divine Comedy, The Ruling Class, Theatre, Trudie Lee
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Michael Moore & Voltaire's Public Intellectual
Capitalism: Aggressively Indifferent or Passively Aggressive ,it is a an easy target; a path of least resistance for our current head priest of the churchof secualar leftism, Michael Moore to preach from the sermon of this years new film release … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam Smith, Agnes george de Mille, Capitalism: A Love Story, David Ricardo, Glenn Beck, Henry George, Herbert Spencer, Jean jaques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, Mark Jenkins, Michael Moore, Paul Samuelson, Peter barnes, Progress and Poverty, Rousseau, Rush Limbaugh, The Ruling Class, Voltaire
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