tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513679299375736828.post1960557925609087084..comments2024-03-11T01:47:38.754-07:00Comments on The World According to AmericanGoy: The meaning of ArtAmericanGoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00865892490752172185noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513679299375736828.post-5671795116738250622011-12-14T17:36:28.962-08:002011-12-14T17:36:28.962-08:00You might be interested in this essay about Walt D...You might be interested in this essay about Walt Disney:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/12/deconstructing-disney/" rel="nofollow">Deconstructing Disney</a>AnonymousCowardhttp://www.counter-currents.com/2011/12/deconstructing-disney/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513679299375736828.post-1349617832521772682011-12-14T15:55:48.539-08:002011-12-14T15:55:48.539-08:00Wharhol bored and brought vapid to a stupefying le...Wharhol bored and brought vapid to a stupefying level, to be sure. It was in music, (no personal pronoun applicable) the effect on human life brought in contact became extremely deleterious. My words stumble but one must see it as the language lacking the ability to register my disgust at the afore mentioned cretin. R. Olausen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513679299375736828.post-85478771978676966422011-12-14T13:46:38.809-08:002011-12-14T13:46:38.809-08:00Fyodor...
I think I am now stuck in an "Alic...Fyodor...<br /><br />I think I am now stuck in an "Alice through the looking glass" moment, and becoming more so with each year.<br /><br />There is the world out there, open and simple and shown on your reality TV, and then the hidden world, with secret, unknown power struggles, unnoticed by the blathering, confused masses.<br /><br />Thanks for posting the link - both are quite good.AmericanGoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00865892490752172185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513679299375736828.post-60463770158816062842011-12-14T12:18:22.244-08:002011-12-14T12:18:22.244-08:00I may have linked to the wrong article about Adorn...I may have linked to the wrong article about Adorno, the article I was thinking of was <a href="http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2009/09/the-mysterious-german-professor/" rel="nofollow">The Mysterious German Professor</a><br /><br /><i>....by the late 1940s Adorno understood that popular music could be used to further the cause of revolution. Adorno and the other Frankfurt School theorists and New York Intellectuals were well aware that popular music could be used to manipulate the masses in communist, fascist, and capitalist societies. As alienated intellectuals living in New York in the 1930s and early 1940s, they had excellent reasons to dislike popular culture: In the US, it upheld the capitalist status quo. In National Socialist Germany it reinforced anti-Semitism and racialist ideology. And in the Soviet Union, it was part of Stalinist repression.<br /><br />But it’s a completely different ballgame when they had the power to influence popular culture, as they did after World War II. If these leftist intellectuals had the power to influence popular culture, they could use it to manipulate the masses in the directions that they wanted — toward liberal cosmopolitanism, breaking down racial barriers, and promoting Black cultural icons.<br /><br />Atlantic Records was certainly involved in these trends.</i><br /><br />I'm afraid you might be asking your readers to do a fair amount of reading and thinking. Most people view the promotion of 'counterculture' in the 1960's as artists lashing out at 'the system' or 'the man'. <br /><br />These articles imply that these artistic trends are in fact serving as a cultural vanguard that promotes ideas, trends, tastes, that the 'elite' or at least a highly cohesive part of our elite wish to propagate. That's a bit too far outside of the box for most people to grasp.Fyodorhttp://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2009/09/the-mysterious-german-professor/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513679299375736828.post-85330098044136725282011-12-14T11:13:20.880-08:002011-12-14T11:13:20.880-08:00Thank You both for the outstanding comments.
Fyod...Thank You both for the outstanding comments.<br /><br />Fyodor,<br /><br />The film 'The Banishment of Beauty' states the facts but, like you hinted, dances around the subject of WHY (I will watch in full in a few days).<br /><br />"White Centre (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) by Mark Rothko (1960): Sold at auction in 2007 for $73 million"<br /><br />Culture is very important, and destruction of ALL art forms - printed media (yes, newspaper articles CAN be an art form, and of course poems and books), music (self explanatory), sculptures and paintings, with a flood of weird, ugly, depressing shit standing proudly in galleries to be bought by the 1%, with actual, real artists with talent having no place there.<br /><br />Sickening.<br /><br />Looking at http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2009/08/adorno-as-critic/<br />- just look at the picture of Theodor Adorno!<br /><br />Forgive me for pseudo-pop psychiatry here, but it is obvious that there is something disturbing inside this man; this man's face screams pain and loathing and fear and base feelings; something is wrong with him.<br /><br />Shudder.<br /><br /><br />Kosta;<br /><br />Ramona's painting is cute, especially as you see the animal actually smiling as it paints (do you see it too?).<br /><br />The monkey's work is much better than Warhololololol's in my not so humble opinion - but then again, almost everybody's is.<br /><br />Shit sells... He created a machine to produce shit. <br /><br />Of course, the powers that be praise and glorify this... this profoundly disturbed and sick... work (surely not art?).<br /><br />We live in a sick world my friends, but all of us can make it a little but better day by day.<br /><br />Don't give up the fight.AmericanGoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00865892490752172185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513679299375736828.post-30041543483752939742011-12-14T04:56:18.619-08:002011-12-14T04:56:18.619-08:00The painting of dots was... um... decorative?
But ...The painting of dots was... um... decorative?<br />But I'd rather have <a href="http://www.ramonaspainting.com/" rel="nofollow">Ramona's Painting</a> hanging on my wall.<br /><br />Or even <a href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/art-critics-go-bananas-over-paintings-made-by-monkey.html" rel="nofollow">Pockets' paintings. </a><br /><br />Perhaps you and I just don't get it goy boy, coz it seems that today, <a href="http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/fiers/fiers1-9-01.asp" rel="nofollow">Shit Sells</a><br /><br />"Banishment of beauty" indeed Fyodor.Kostahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03671075111499067052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513679299375736828.post-54688385406224939362011-12-14T00:59:14.599-08:002011-12-14T00:59:14.599-08:00The film 'The Banishment of Beauty'also di...The film <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=619ED61282CD714E" rel="nofollow"><b>'The Banishment of Beauty'</b></a>also discusses the explicit rejection of anything that demonstrates aesthetic value (or aesthetic accomplishment) in modern art. By doing this modern art is making a <i>political</i> statement. In rejecting the Hellenestistic value of beauty that has been a longstanding aspiration of western civilization it is rejecting the 'old' or existing world order that was defined by Christendom & Western Civilization. <br /><br />Of course the film, Banishment of Beauty, does not explore the political subtext behind these trends. LashaDarkmoon hit the nail on the head. <br /><br />I also encourage you to read up on the three part series on <a href="http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/09/mark-rothko-abstract-expressionism-and-the-decline-of-western-art/" rel="nofollow">Mark Rothko</a> in The Occidental Observer and of course, Elizabeth Whitcombe's article <a href="http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/author/elizabethwhitcombe/" rel="nofollow"><b>Adorno as Critic: Celebrating the Socially Destructive Force of Music</b></a>Fyodornoreply@blogger.com