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mutilated english: decode it man
If one is searching for springs of language undefiled by pedantry, politics, or motivational vector analysis, what more likely place to look than the domain of belles-lettres? For is it not reasonable to assume that poets and novelists- craftspeople who … Continue reading
back to the futurism: cleansing joy of combat
F.P. Marinetti and futurism. The grand effort to wipe out every vestige of the past. As the poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in 1913, it was the first collective effort to suppress history in the name of art… While Filippo Marinetti … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Battle of Adrianople, Bob Dylan, Charles Bernstein MOMA, F.P. Marinetti Futurist Manifesto, Filippo Marinetti, Futurist aesthetics, Guillaume Apollinaire, Isotta Fraschini car, Italian Fascism, Italy World War I, Kenneth Burke, Le Corbusier architect, Mussolini newspaper editor, Pierre Bourgeois, Rene Magritte, Sant' Elia futurist architect, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman
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running from the glare of lights
Pop culture as a religion of poses, mimicking the empty religion that has normatively been disseminated to the common denominator. The counter empty gesture harking back to the pre-religious paganism, the sense of wonder in the grove at Alba and … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, amy winehouse, Andy Warhol, c.c. sabbathia overweight, eva braun, Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jared Diamond, Leaves of Grass, madona wh, madonna hydrangeas, Marlene Dietrich, Pauline Kael, prince fielder overweight, Ricky Gervais, Susan Sontag, Walt Whitman
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the washington square drips and splatters
Hard to pinpoint what brought them together, this collection of opposites that endured to the end. Arshile Gorky was a late and marginal member in Andre Breton’s surrealist circle and he may have transmitted the importance of trusting introspection, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, harold rosenberg art critic, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, John Graham, matta echaurren, Pablo Picasso, stanley william hayter, Walt Whitman, willem de Kooning, Yves Tanguay
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what if there was no back then
Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading
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Tagged emmanuel levinas, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Max Brod, pauline pistis, Randy Newman, Robert Crumb, Sam Harris, Theodor Adorno, Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, William James
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rimbaud: farewell of the damned
He held out for some sort of salvation, but what that was to be, its form, went largely unknown and undefined. The broken home, childhood sexual trauma, abusive parents, addiction. Like Jean Genet, the criminal and outlaw experience informed the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Genet, jef rossman, joel-peter witkin, leo ferre, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Todd Haynes, Walt Whitman
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homer: arcadia americana
It’s art that arrives at its destination from the outside and then pays attention to observation. Homer is part of the strong figurative tradition in American art, and although appropriated as a popular stereotype it reaches back to older, quite … Continue reading
occupy the authentic
Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading
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Tagged 10cc, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Guy Debord, Henry Adams, John Sloan, laura ingalls wilder, Lionel Trilling, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, mike moffatt, miles orvell, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, stephen crane, susan pinker, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Walt Whitman
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I’d rather be a weed
It can be plausibly argued that violence does cause thinking. If peace was predominant, there would never be much occasion for thoughtful reflection. So, thinking is bound to violence, and violence seems the janus-faced side of civilization. And, the trick … Continue reading
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Tagged alexia nader, Allen Ginsberg, Chris Hedges, christopher caudwell, cornel west, Howard Zinn, marshall rosenberg, michel maiofiss, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Paul Krugman, victor villasenor, Walt Whitman
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soliloquy: photos of american monologues
Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation. Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading
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Tagged alec soth, alexander Farkas, Alexis de Tocqueville, Damien Hirst, Edgar Allen Poe, ellis washington, emily dickinson, Greil Marcus, Henry James, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, michael a. ledeen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, neal riemer, Walt Whitman
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