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Tag Archives: Tom Sachs
friends in the fire
From Jonathan McIntosh. Quite Brilliant. Does remind me of the Prada Death Camp ( Tom Sachs ) and LEGO concentration camp ( Libera) from the Mirroring Evil exhibit in New York about a decade ago, which means Jonathan as a … Continue reading
redemption against a brick wall
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
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evil, what evil?
Can the world be mended of fragmentation? Is it our destiny to be treading water between connection, unity and oneness and highly radical, morbid and death infused darkness … de-realization, disorientation, and fragmentation. But also Klein’s epigraph to The Second … Continue reading
is-real-thing: endless solutions
It is difficult to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue in anything approaching what could be termed a “common sense” way. The conventional wisdom is that we are even handed, or that some form of pseudo-historical junk science as religion “special status” … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.m. klein, alan schechner, Claude Levi-Strauss, henry wentworth monk, ivan c. rand, joshua neustein, lester b. pearson, margaret bourke-white, ram katzir, Rick Salutin, roee rosen, sigalit landau, Stephen Harper, Tom Sachs, yves engler
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where the truth lies: what is “the real thing” ?
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
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