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reality: it ain’t necessarily so
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
and the moon struck one
Exposing the infinite madness of the unconscious. Showing that anti-establishment art could be accepted, ultimately, by the powers that be through a direct democratic appeal to the what could be called “the great unwashed” unperturbed and uncorrupted by the veneer … Continue reading
absurdities: the masculine warrior figure
Vanity is usually pretty revolting. An auto-glorification. narcissism. But as a minor saving grace, it can aspire to a certain honesty. But, for some reason, the relationship between vanity and worshiping money remains an enduring legacy, as if the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Cindy Sherman, edouard manet olympia, Ernst Junger, Filippo Marinetti, Hans Bellmer, hermann broch, italian futurism, John Updike, lucio fontana, Max Ernst, Otto Weininger, Piero Manzoni, richard kazis, robert stoller, Umberto Boccioni, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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when they were fab
The optical unconscious.The truth shoppers would have to parse through all the footage to strip away the false consciousness maintained under the neo-liberal economic model with regard to video and film. Cult values and elements of the ritual predominate and … Continue reading
getting no satisfaction: a hollow world going wrong
Desire and Disillusion. That technical progress with its transformational capacity could finish by alienating the individual giving rise to consumerism fueled by invidious comparison and a spirit of competition which would appropriate Darwininian contexts to establish political, social and hegemonic … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, charles hinton, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, darwinism, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, john dewey, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, picasso blue period, richard kazis, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky
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memory and remembrance: disrupting comfortable convention
Artist Steve Reich and his recording label Nonesuch have been raked over the proverbial coals this past week since previewing artwork for Reich’s WTC 9/11 recording by the Kronos Quartet. It depicts the second plane going into WTC based on … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, beate passow, blalla w. hallmann, boris lurie, Donald Kuspit, Hans Haacke, masatomo kuriya, Raul Hilberg, richard kazis, sam goodman, sam goodman sculpture, Steve Reich, Walter Benjamin
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where the truth lies: what is “the real thing” ?
We are often convinced we are looking at a seamless and accurate depiction of reality and the shock involved is the realization that it is not quite so obvious as we thought… What are the boundaries of artistic representation and … Continue reading
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Tagged alan schechner, Art Spiegelman, Bell Hooks, Donald Kuspit, Gottfried Helnwein, holocaust art, Jennifer Peto, Jonathan Kay national Post, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, matthew frye jacobson, richard kazis, rudolf herz, terry fincher, Tom Sachs, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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