Tag Archives: rudolf herz

where the truth lies: what is “the real thing” ?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | 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 | Leave a comment

alchemy of art: jangling the keys of solomon

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Dave

With secret sound. The liberation of the subjective self. Magic squares and alchemy in art lending hermetic interpretations to deciphering works of art.It was the irresistible lure of certain of the Magic Squares of the Third Book, and their tendency … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan schechner, anna freud, calvin tomkins, Donald Kuspit, eliphas levi, elliott barowitz, Florine Stettheimer, francis m. naumann, Heinrich Hoffmann, katherine dreier, katherine s. dreier, MacGregor-Mathers, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, Michael Kimmelman, otto fenichel, rudolf herz, Rudolf Steiner, Walter Arensberg, Wassily Kandinsky, willaim agee | Leave a comment

guilty by juxtaposition

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dave

A peculiar combination of context and coincidence.A new aesthetic discourse in Nazi representation. Is there an aesthetics of fascism? Rudolf Herz is the artist who took the seemingly incongruous combination of Hitler and Marcel Duchamp and combined the two in … Continue reading →