“The mass is forced to contemplate itself (mass meetings, mass demonstrations). The mass is always present to itself and often in the aesthetically seductive form of an ornament or an emotionally moving image.” — Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament (1927) “Philosopher Siegfried Kracauer was among the first… Read More
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Painting is Painting’s Favorite Food: Art History as Muse at South Etna Montauk
“Asger Jorn, the great Danish artist and mastermind of the CoBrA movement, always had a zinger up his sleeve. He famously sent a mordant telegram to Harry F. Guggenheim, refusing the Guggenheim Prize with a single sentence: ‘Go to hell with your money, Bastard!’ Jorn titled one… Read More