Tag Archives: T.S. Eliot

dark street notes

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

In Edward Adler’s Notes From a Dark Street the materials of common contemporary existence on the Lower East Side – circa late 1950′s- have been ordered and transmuted into a terrible cosmography far transcending its naturalistic events. The novel’s aesthetic … Continue reading →

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dopey banker

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Dave

What we have come to see over the past decade, culminating in the financial collapse is a new breed of banker: utterly unprincipled, ruthless and abrasive. You have to wonder if Greg Smith’s life is an episode, a subtle portrayal … Continue reading →

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100 red carpets for the sun

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dave

Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading →

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layton & those wild peculiar joys

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dave

Quite a mixed bag in looking at Irving Lyton on his 100th birthday. Not everything was gold, but there was in sum, a spiritual consciousness with the man, a leaving to the control of the instinct as sign of his … Continue reading →

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there’s plenty of room at the bottom

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dave

From the previous post that brought up Harry Saltzman, one of the originators of developing the social realism genre of film. Of course, Saltzman did not operate in a vacuum, but he had an intuitive sense that connected the north … Continue reading →

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lets build something together

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Dave

The realistic underside. A commentary on the tenuous grip on sanity that an excess of reason and common sense produce. The dead-end of the escapism into stark materiality. Portrait of a realistic underside of the economic miracle where all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged bernd becher, Edward Steichen, hilda becher, Immanuel Kant, Jean Tinguely, jeff wall, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, T.S. Eliot | Leave a comment

feel the feeling from without: vulgar(t)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Dave

When dreams turn into a dark nightmare, a small flickering flame extinguishable by a baby’s breath. It’s the realization of a nihilistic endgame, but its causes, and controlling forces are not always tangible, the reality is not transparent and the … Continue reading →

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a herd of mobile muskrats

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he at the end of the street,… ( T.S. Eliot ) As Occupy Wall Street … Continue reading →

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those were the days

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dave

In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by ‘postart’, a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal … Continue reading →

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authentic pathology and cozy passivity

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dave

Is art is the creation of an artifact that is it’s own argument? Essentially, It does not need a theory to define it, an expert scholar to contextualize it, or a given situation to render it meaning. So, a true … Continue reading →