Category: arts
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The Humanities! The very name should call up something wild. From the moment Socrates started wandering the Greek market and driving Athenian aristocrats to their wits end, their place has… more ›
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I’ve been a fan of Brendan Nash’s blog and I’ve been following him on Twitter since this past summer. When I was in Berlin in October, I was able to take… more ›
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“Talent deprived of the gift of sorrow produces only near-values.” In 1932, John Graham completed Embrace, a 30 x 36 in. oil painting on canvas. It is held by The… more ›
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I spent the day focused on work and research, and yet this day has felt like debauched decadence: I began this morning reading a chapter in the Irigaray text, and then… more ›
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Since I have sworn that I would not pursue retranslating Malevich’s Suprematism manifesto until after completing the dissertation, I’ll use a deficient translation I found online several weeks ago. I… more ›
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In Part 1, Section 1.2B.iv “The limits of Erlebniskunst and the rehabilitation of allegory” in Truth and MethodGadamer delineates between allegory and symbol: “The symbol is the coincidence of the… more ›
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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich [Казимир Северинович Малевич] was Russian in its most contested forms: he was born in Ukraine of ethnic Poles, which would make his name Kazimierz Malewicz. I suspect… more ›
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I somehow managed to pass the 10,000-word mark on Chapter Two this afternoon. That was my goal when I sat down several weeks ago to work on my dissertation. I… more ›
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Is this damn blog still up and online? Does anyone ever post on this damn thing anymore? What’s up with the crappy black-and-white photos uploaded at random? Did the cute… more ›
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Art has no function, but the function of art is to revolutionize society. Art that functions to revolutionize society is nothing but mere propaganda. But art that serves its functionless… more ›