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men of leisure: rewards of mediocrity
When you read about the number of billionaires in the United States, it is easy to arrive at a judgement that defines Americans as brighter than everyone else and have the cash hoard as evidence. This is balanced by cultural … Continue reading
art for the sake of creative destruction
Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Damien Hirst, David Ganek, Eli Broad, Francis Bacon art, Guy Debord, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Quinn, Pablo Picasso, Randy Newman, Stephen Wynn, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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the “oedipal” murder and on to a new era
by Art Chantry: most people try to link my thinking to andy warhol. i get that. my stuff looks a lot like andy’s work becasue we’re both pulling from the same galaxy of americana. he and i had a lot … Continue reading
the myth is not invulnerable
Aesthetics and economics. As with the farmer, so it generally went with the small businessperson: dealer, salesman, contractor,and small merchant. Their income may be considered handsome when compared to past standards, but they are, collectively, a group that has to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Hauser, David Geffen art collection, Donald Kuspit, Francis Bacon artist, H.L. Mencken, Henry Clay Frick art collection, Jan van Goyen, Jeff Koons, jeffrey deitch, Marcel Duchamp, Sinclair Lewis, Sir Joseph Duveen, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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fear of hardship: price of precarity
Starving artist syndrome. Or superior creation under the wing of economic security. …. One can bring the matter between aesthetics and economics within the scope of a single hypothesis. It is that pecuniary motivation- roughly, the desire for money income- … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Arnold Hauser, Arthur Schopenhauer, benjamin disraeli, David Geffen art collection, Jackson Pollock, Jan Steen, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meindert Hobbema, Norman Rockwell, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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doing battle with the muse: not a-mused
Is it intrinsic to modern art in general, a kind of withdrawal into a space, a locus of narcissistic preoccupation and obligation? A space where fear of the object leads to mistreatment of it. The aggressive and destructive impulses, which … Continue reading
sandusky: labyrinth of fourth and long
Sandusky is a kind of minotaur who sacrificed human victims. This primal, nihilistic rejection in which nearly everything is lost, shattered, despised, mocked and unrepairable. It suggests the sadism uses and abuses the body as an identification with a nightmarish … Continue reading
just like starting over
An ambivalent relationship to be sure. Antagonistic. Lots of arguments. But breaking up is what they are wired to do. The quarrels, the separation, and the inevitable efforts to try and patch things up with a first love of the … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony storr, David Park art, Elmer Bischoff, John Koch paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, richard diebenkorn, Sigmind freud, tom wesselmann, willem de Kooning, wolfgang lederer
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a bolt of the volt
Among the men of the Enlightenment Francois Marie Arouet, self-styled Voltaire, stands first. The acid skepticism, the faith in nature and science, the hatred of theologians and dogmamongers, all this had already been formulated when Voltaire was still a fashionable … Continue reading