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Tag Archives: Roland Barthes
common sense: gossiping around the village pump
The decline of common sense and why we might wish to revive it…. A truly surprising paradox is implied in all this. Prideful thought and common sense stand at opposite poles, yet the poles turn out to be the very … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alvin Rakoff, Cervantes, David Bordwell, Don Quixote, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Frank Finlay actor, Iggy Pop, Josee Moreno Carbonero, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Miguel de Cervantes, Noel Carroll, Rex Harrison, Roland Barthes
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acknowledged silences
We are dealing with unavoidable traumatic effects; actual and not idealized fancified tragedies and catastrophes. We don’t need T.S. Eliot preaching how low we have sunk. It was the trial run of eugenics, Fabianism, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bertold Brecht, Bertolt Brecht, boris lurie, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Irving Layton, jean amery, jerome witkin, Larry Rivers art, madame pickwick art supplies, Madame Pickwick. madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Nietzsche, Primo Levi, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno
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two faced value
Threatening complacency and self-satisfaction. Wallowing in the glory of inertia. Taking a pass on disturbing entrenched assumptions. By extension, not resisting to conformity means a negation of what is regarded as the uncannily human, meaning one ventures onto the slippery … Continue reading →
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Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Dwight MacDonald, Eduard Hanslick, Gustave Courbet, hanslick, henri Bergson, Ilya Repin, Pablo Picasso, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Walter Benjamin
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banking with igor: foreclosure on bad anima
It gives rise to strange sensations when we transfer the body into an emotional language, a coded language that no longer seems common. Maybe it reveals a certain vulgar emotional truth about our own perceived deformities as well as providing … Continue reading →
belley up
He may be viewed as a rebel or a thrill seeker,a radical, but he never did leave the mainstream. Girodet’s representation of the liberation of slaves, equality, had little to do with liberation; he was a democrat of the most … Continue reading →
raft of the medusa redux: can i get a coke with that?
Most of us know the original sad story of the Medusa, immortalized by Gericault. There are recurring elements in pop culture that have no qualms of turning impact of powerful visual art narratives into…. Gilligan’s Island? Satire. Copy Cat art. … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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Tagged Adad Hannah, alexandre correard, Arthur Schopenhauer, david schonauer, Diane Arbus, emmanuel levinas, gericault raft of the medusa, Hu Jieming art, jean-baptiste-henri savigny, joel-peter witken, jonathan miles, Roland Barthes, Simone Weil, Theodore Gericault
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an original of a copy
But, then is not the artist themselves, whether man or woman, merely a “copy” an “imitation” even a forgery of the original’ the original first, man and women, of which after the Fall have lot their original aura, their sense … Continue reading →
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Tagged alfred lessing, Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, Dietrich Fey, Han Van Meegeren, Jan Vermeer, Johannes Vermeer, Lothar Malskat, martin gough, max stern, max sterner, oswald hanfly, Pablo Picasso, Roland Barthes, Thorstein Veblen, timothy binkley, vermeer forgeries, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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if you meet a shaman on the road…
“From the cavern, man does not like to stir” – W. Benjamin. Where is the scariest place to live. It may just be inside of us. But we love to project…..Antonin Artaud studied the Tarahumara indians in Mexico in 1936,who … Continue reading →
tiger’s leap into the past
Roland Barthes once claimed that a society produces images, splices of mythologies peddled, as magical instruments to enforce a social order.All nations have their founding mythologies, the necessary illusions that maintain the social hierarchy. In Israel, it was conquering and … Continue reading →
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Tagged a.m. klein, adi nes, anatot settlement, boaz arad, Edward Said, israeli art, menachem kahana, Michael Greenstein, miri segal, philip rantzer, pipi longstocking, rafi gamzou, richard lemm, Roland Barthes, rona yefman, ronit lentin, Slavoj Zizek, stephen ratzner, Walter Benjamin, yassin rifawi, yesh din
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ball four strike 3 fair or foul?
Who’s on first? Does it matter? Although the actors change, the same situations repeat themselves, almost, in an eternal cycle. But, baseball is a business. It may be the national pastime, imbued in the national fabric but it remains a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aaron Sorkin, al schacht, Andy Warhol, babe ruth, bennett miller, billy beane, Brad Pitt, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, dorothy dottie kamenshek, earl weaver, georg lukacs, Honore Daumier, market socialism, max patkin, Max Weber, michael Lewis Moneyball, moneyball, neil morris, neil sorkin, peter king, Piet Mondrian, roger maris, Roland Barthes, sabermetrics, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Walter Pater
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