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fascination with opposites
….a fascination with opposites. The theory that no quality or trait in art can enjoy an independent existence without being dependent on a contrary. When you look at George Segal and Meyer Schapiro its very much a glimpse into the … Continue reading
the thrift of paradox
Banality is typically North American. It lends itself to kitsch as kind of a general anaesthetic which tends to numb and mute over our differences, which helps us from cutting each others throats, at least in theory. Banality speaks to … Continue reading
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ballad of a thin man with stogie
You, the owners of property are the truly brutish ones, runs the line of ironic implication; we slaves have remained human. Caught between what he expected and what he actually felt, the cultivated German spectator found hmself animated by chronic … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Bob Dylan, carl a. rossi, Donald Kuspit, Hannah Arendt, helene weigel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, lotte lenya, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, suze rotolo, The Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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MOON ROCKS & SHAKESPEARE’S SECRET AUTHOR TALKS
This year sees a 25th anniversary re- publication of Margaret Atwood‘s dystopian classic,”The Handmaid’s Tale” about an oppressive America of the future where sexual reproduction is both a eugenics of mind and action. The Handmaids are forced to provide children by proxy … Continue reading
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MARCUSE: ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN= ONE DIMENSIONAL ART
Q. But what of art like that of Beckett, which can’t seem to formulate a positive vision of the future? Marcuse: I think it is precisely the total absence of all false hopes that brings out the depth of the … Continue reading
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