Tag Archives: thomas hess

yells of awe and anger

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Dave

The death instinct laying claim. Death making a deposit on even the most modest and humble aspirations, dragging us over the abyss back to the primal aesthetic root; as Nietsche said, if you look at the abyss long it begins … Continue reading →

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wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

Was the impulse of modern art to destroy beauty, to pitch renaissance notions of beauty into the dumpster? Behind De Kooning, was there a profound and embedded hated of women? He did say “flesh was the main reason oil paint … Continue reading →

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