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holiday grind: intellect confuses intuition
Pickwick Promo’s in the spirit of Piet Mondrian. “The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore the object must be eliminated from the picture. (Piet Mondrian)…Every true artist has been inspired more by the … Continue reading
t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat
T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading
the paranormal: does what matter
…Now there is a vast amount of testimony to psi phenomena. Freud and Jung took their existence for granted; they fascinated William James; and as Arthur Koestler pointed out in his The Roots of Coincidence, the British Society for Psychical … Continue reading
mondrian : boogie woogie underneath
Is looking at a reproduction of art an adequate substitute for the original? According to the theory of Arthur Koestler it is, but there is an apposing theory that art is not merely graphic design or easily transferable through mechanical … Continue reading
ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot
There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Bostom, benjamin disraeli, Benny Morris Historian, Benzion Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, doug saunders globe and mail, Fouad Ajami, Golden Age of Muslim Spain, Heinrich Graetz, Jane Gerber, Maimonides, Maimonides in Egypt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Montesquieu, Moritz Steinschneider, Nicky Larkin director, Pierre Bayle, Piet Mondrian, Robert Wistrich, Shlomo Dov Goiten, Voltaire
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brand name incidental relationships
The transformation of beauty into claims of prestige? What if there was no super-wealthy class to cultivate and consume art and hence be able to draw invidious comparisons with their peers? Veblen asserted that wealth display and the splurging of … Continue reading
degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters
Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged albert speer, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, dan graham art, daniel boorstin, Edvard Munch, Erich Fromm, gitta sereny, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, jay a. clarke, Jeff Koons, Joseph Schumpeter, lynn h. nicholas, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Theodor Adorno, Vanessa Beecroft, wilson bryan key, YSL Mondrian dresses
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business is business
….Courtesy of Brainiac Paul Hamilton: 1st of November 1979: BBC Radio 1, a Saturday afternoon magazine show called ‘Rock On’ (WOOO!), and Kevin Godley & Lol Creme are discussing their new LP ‘Freeze Frame’ with host Richard Skinner. Some excepts. … Continue reading
is it art without the spiritual?
Is art, art, when there is no spiritual content? Or is it simply at the level of a visual language that descends to the level of advertising and marketing management? Does the absence of the embodiment of the spiritual mean … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Damien Hirst, georg baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, James Hillman, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leni Riefenstahl, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, polke, social realist art, veronica brady, warhol pop art, Wassily Kandinsky
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