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What do you think about Francis Bacon's "nihilism"?

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2024/11/30
11:47 UTC

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adorno and hopeful art

hi i’m new to adorno and would appreciate some help! so i’ve decided to write about hopeful art for my essay. what i understand (with limited knowledge) is that this kind of art is liberating and truthful because it is not created to please nor manipulate the mass. what i want to know is if it loses its function (of enlightening) once it’s institutionalised, and does the fact that it is kept in museums or galleries diminish its impact or meaning? i wonder if adorno wrote about this and if not, what you think he would have said. if you can kindly signpost me to any authors/theories i’ll be really grateful!

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2024/11/24
22:01 UTC

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Why do we know so little about such a close and important friend to Vincent? 

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2024/11/20
17:26 UTC

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Jung on Surrealism?

I know Carl Jung isn’t a frequent authority in art criticism and is not without controversy when attempting to do so (his essay on Picasso, for example). However, I recall the segment of his book Man and His Symbols on modern art where his acolyte Aniela Jaffé acknowledges the unconscious as the potent source of art but criticizes certain elements of the surrealist movement (especially automatic writing, Dadaist poetry and exercises in randomness) which are essentially pure expressions of the unconscious mind without conscious organization. I believe her idea was that art creation requires the unconscious mind for potent ideas but also the counterbalancing conscious mind to organize them into a pattern or else you just have incomprehensible randomness.

I’m not sure I 100% agree with this but it caught my attention. Any ideas or thoughts on this?

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2024/11/12
23:58 UTC

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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (1951) by Wallace Stevens — An online reading group starting November 12, weekly meetings, open to everyone

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2024/11/08
03:05 UTC

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Why do we know so little about such a close and important friend to Vincent? 

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2024/11/05
09:00 UTC

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Books about the labour of how art is made

Can I get some help in finding books which explore the history of how art is made. More along the lines of artist that had teams of people working for them over history and how that has changed. I’ve read Dark Matter, which was good, but looking for others which look critically at the labor arrangements towards the production of art. Thanks

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2024/10/23
10:14 UTC

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Vaporwave - cool art picks

Vaporwave - Wikipedia

Vaporwave originated as an ironic variant of chillwave, evolving from hypnagogic pop as well as similar retro-revivalist and post-Internet motifs that had become fashionable in underground digital music and art scenes of the era, such as Tumblr's seapunk. The style was pioneered by producers such as James Ferraro, Daniel Lopatin and Ramona Xavier, who each used various pseudonyms.[34] After Xavier's album Floral Shoppe (2011) established a blueprint for the genre, the movement built an audience on sites Last.fm, Reddit and 4chan while a flood of new acts, also operating under online pseudonyms, turned to Bandcamp for distribution.

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2024/10/12
18:55 UTC

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Massurrealism - cool art picks

Massurrealism - Wikipedia

Coined in 1992, massurrealism is a development of surrealism that emphasizes the effect of technology and mass media on contemporary surrealist imagery.

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2024/10/12
18:53 UTC

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Returning From the Russian Exile - They Did Not Expect Him by Ilya Repin

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2024/10/10
18:45 UTC

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Thoughts on Black Mountain College…

I am currently in school to become a Landscape Architect, and in a lot of my readings, as well as conversations with designers, I’ve heard references to the art education at BMC and how many prolific artists had gone through that program. There is like a family tree of artists who had studied there and became very well known. For many, that experience was an integral and formative point in their careers. Understanding its relationship to Bauhaus helps to contextualize the importance and lasting legacy of the program.

Do you feel like there is anything/anywhere like Black Mountain College today? Was this purely a product of its time?

Part of me believes the faculty/students were, yes, very talented, but more importantly, ahead of their time. So, the philosophies and ideologies taught there are now folded into most art education. They were simply the catalyst for change/the inception of some contemporary thought.

Shouldn’t there be someplace/someone who is pushing us forward in the art world today? I believe this is hard to see without retrospection, but I’m curious if anyone has thoughts on this…

Also I would love to hear any thoughts on BMC and its importance/influence and other artists who have sprung from there, as I am starting to grow my knowledge on this.

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2024/10/02
00:35 UTC

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How would you call a blend of Old and New Like antiques but made today, and you can use them in your everyday life. Modern Day Antique – Montique?

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2024/09/28
02:56 UTC

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LF: Texts that theorize about art from a disability perspective

I’m just starting to explore art from a disability perspective, and would appreciate any recommendations for texts in this area that would be considered key or “foundational”.

Thank you in advance!

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2024/08/12
12:54 UTC

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Künstler, Kunst, Rezipient – Verstand und Gefühl im Widerstreit (Artist, art, recipient - intellect and emotion in conflict)

The question of the extent to which art is morally contaminated by an artist's immoral character, attitude or criminal lifestyle can be answered unequivocally: it is not! But precisely this unambiguity is highly problematic. A definitive answer: Künstler, Kunst, Rezipient – Verstand und Gefühl im Widerstreit (Article in German)

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2024/08/08
06:33 UTC

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encyclopedias with dope cool artworks and illustrations?

does anybody know where i could buy encyclopedias/textbooks with dope cool artworks and graphics? as long as the illustrations on it are well done and great, i don't mind their subject, but if the encyclopedia is about aesthetics, that's even better

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2024/08/06
02:30 UTC

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Understanding the Art of Existential Dread

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2024/08/03
01:23 UTC

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Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment (1790) — A SLOW reading group starting Sunday July 14, meetings every 2 weeks on Zoom, all are welcome

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2024/07/12
04:21 UTC

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Lessons from the subterranes -- a case for the mystification of prehistoric art

Would love to hear thoughts/feedback on it, check it out if you want to! https://atmidnightalltheagents.substack.com/p/lessons-from-the-subterranes?r=2eypst

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2024/06/27
19:49 UTC

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A discussion whether the last person on Earth would still create art: a case for the inter-subjectivity of art as a symbolic form

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2024/06/25
21:09 UTC

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