romance with terror
To acknowledge the power of the irrational. A kind of spiritual revolt of unhappy souls who in a negative sense become overwhelmed with the powers of ideology and terror, producing the perfect recipe...
View ArticleBrecht: don’t look back
Somewhat shakily, tottering, revelation and the spiritual in art managed to survive intact after being banged around from the forces of the new objectivity.It is an absurd state of mind Brecht was...
View Articleto the confusion of our enemies
Abraham as a flaneur. Walking, wandering, and catching a fleeting remark, a floating fragment of dialogue that would change his life and that of all history past, present and future. His dialogue with...
View Articleerikson: going native on magic
In his work, Erik Erikson surpassed the Freudian focus on dysfunctional behaviour to evaluate the ways that the normal self is able to function successfully, through an integration of the effects of...
View Articlelogic of a dream
Giorgio de Chirico created one of the first of these invented worlds and one of the most enduring. Before the word surrealism was invented he anticipated many of its devices without crossing the line...
View Articlefly in the soup of innocence
Henri Rousseau was fortunate enough to receive from established painters whom he admired the good advice to avoid formal training even when he was in a position to take advantage of it. Emulating...
View Articleprint collecting in the arcade
Art of the fantastic or visionary art. Generally at best a tenuous relationship with the world we know and must depend upon associations of the most personal and inward kind. Our response to visions...
View Articlekeep calm with bob
French/English language promo on the “keep calm” meme. Mr. Bob was anything but calm with intense poetic vision that straddled the line between chaos and order. Did Mr. D ever read Walter Benjamin and...
View Articleto give and retrieve
The idea, in the popular conception o made be in need of a total makeover. Despite all the campaigns to fight poverty and wars for the poor which often appear more like war on the poor, he chasm...
View Articlefight for your right to scream
Maybe sometimes its good to scream. there is a slice of silence that listens. that treats and attracts, that begs curiosity. It might not answer immediately, but there is listening… you wanna pick a...
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