Tag Archives: rudolf herz

hessel: stuck down gideon’s well

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Dave

Peculiar man this Stephane Hessel. The man of no fixed address in the spiritual sphere, floating vaguely between strains of Jewish thought and Christianity who grounded himself by welding his soul onto onto the deck of likely the ship of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Breton, Francois Truffaut, Henri-Pierre Roche, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Ruben Blades, rudolf herz, Stephane Hessel, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

deep philosophy or conceptual quip?

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dave

The greatest philosopher in modern art? Or did the art world make him, artificially construct him into a “readymade” himself, the philosopher who would trash tradition and under the pretext of modernism and the new, engage in the kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andy Warhol, Bernard von Lindenau, Damien Hirst, francis p. nauman, Giotto, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jeff Koons, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, mark polizzotti, Martin Heidegger, rudolf herz, The Enlightenment | Leave a comment

the wall street scuffle

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Dave

The man approached the teller and proceeded to undertake his deposit, transfer money to his line of credit and ended his sequence by a request to order cheques, a package of fifty would suffice, but a greater quantity if less … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, dodd-frank, Donald Kuspit, douglas gorsline, elliott barowitz, francis p. nauman, Frans Hals, hendrik gerritsz pot, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Doucet, Jean Genet, John Heartfield, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, philippe bruno, quentin metsys, rudolf herz, The Merchant of Venice, Walter Arensberg | Leave a comment

the smell of smoke

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Dave

Is art an effective means of dealing with a painful subject; after all, art’s form does not preclude the possibility of subject matter and emotions of the most intense and and appalling nature leading the aesthetic to serve as basis … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan schechner, carol zemel, elliott barowitz, Gottfried Helnwein, Heinrich Hoffmann, Lee Miller photography, Leonard Cohen, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, norman kleeblatt, rudolf herz | Leave a comment

duchamp’s children: spectacle of the private parts

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dave

…. Is there still the spiritual in art, the kind of transcending of the sacred/profane dynamic that Kandinsky spoke of? The grip of anti-art within the art world is predominant and intransigent. The argument has been made that post-modern art … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, Eli Broad, elliott barowitz, hans hoffman, Jeff Koons, la cicciolina, Marcel Duchamp, rem koolhaas, rudolf herz, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

lego : mirroring evil

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dave

A funny spoof on Lego sets and toy commercials is circulating on YouTube, but humorous in a somewhat disconcerting way. Almost a decade ago, Donald Kuspit made a famous assertion on a Rudolf Herz piece of art showing photos of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Donald Kuspit, john pike, lego cops and robbers, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, occupy wall street: the lego set, rachael liberman, rebecca walker, rudolf herz, zbigniew libera | Leave a comment

redemption against a brick wall

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Dave

The representation of trauma. What are the limits, the intersection between the desire to understand and the voyeuristic gaze? The conjunction of political and popular culture can collapse the meaning of distance resulting in a moral strain and ambiguity where … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan bullock, Franz Kafka, irving babbitt, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Josef Fritzl, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, piotr uklanski, Ron Rosenbaum, rudolf herz, saul friedlander, Slavoj Zizek, the sound of music, Tom Sachs | Leave a comment

artistic terror : conceptual cowardice?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dave

Is Marcel Duchamp a terrorist? In a figurative sense, a weapon of mass destruction. The super-bomb/dirty bomb alchemical chain reaction where crap is turned into monetary gold. Clearly, with the ready-made, there was an initial anti-hierarchical space of thought, something … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Potter, Arthur Koestler, Edouard Manet, Edward Bernays, elliott barowitz, francis p. nauman, Heinrich Hoffmann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath rebel sell, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, mark sagof, martin gough, norman kleeblatt, Pablo Picasso, renato poggioli, robert graham sculpture, rudolf herz, sidney janis, stephen foster, thomas frank the baffler, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

ready made for action

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Dave

An animal expression in intellectual disguise? An artistic terrorist? An ambassador to the reproductive qualities of art? A parody of art in which the object is a symbol, an interpretation of a subject. Anti-art. What, exactly, are the ideas that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Dadaism, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Jackson Pollock, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, rudolf herz | Leave a comment

lenin road show: the neverending tour

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

Rudolf Herz is not exactly a stranger to controversy regarding his unconventional approach to memory and remembrance. His work often attempts to explore the malevolence that underlines the criticisms directed towards him and certain other artists such as in the … Continue reading →