tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post1168287856509051659..comments2024-03-26T10:07:14.049-04:00Comments on Painting: Impossiblity of transcendence in American ArtMartin Mugarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-58338146855803539252022-01-12T17:43:21.021-05:002022-01-12T17:43:21.021-05:00It was short lived but for awhile Mademoiselle Del...It was short lived but for awhile Mademoiselle Delphine provided great commentary on my work arranged a show for me in Paris and then disappearedMartin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-71846440288970098152021-11-02T12:25:13.582-04:002021-11-02T12:25:13.582-04:00(continued from above) To come back to Nietzsche a...(continued from above) To come back to Nietzsche and the Germans, to Zen and the Japanese, what more do you want me to say? You have said it all. As for the Mormons, the Amish, and all those absurd things (they are legion) that live in your country of the damned, I'm as much in awe of them as I am of cola and burgers.<br /><br />I am very happy to read what you say about Heidegger, that enemy of art. Although he was and remains a great philosopher, for me he is an aberration in the history of philosophy (even if he is very useful, with all his concepts stolen from others, like the great French philosopher Jean Beaufret - see in particular his Conversations with Heidegger, alas only partially translated into English). And since you mention Alexandre Kojève, so rightly, I would mention his Essays on a Reasoned History of Pagan Philosophy in the first place, and in particular the volume on the pre-Socratics, whom are largely underestimated, although It seems to me that they are coming back 'in fashion', and therefore to their misfortune, so few people are able to understand what their thought means for us and for art (I STILL INCLUDE, AS YOU KNOW, ARCHITECTURE IN ART, IT IS THE GREATEST AND FIRST).<br /><br />Alexandre Koyré, a near-homonym, is also VERY interesting: see in particular his Études d'histoire de la pensée philosophique, collected three years before his death (1964).<br /><br />Finally, I'll end by returning to the world of machines and technology in art (against which I obviously have NOTHING, as I am myself a kind of computer developer), but the DEMON must NOT BE IN THE DETAIL OF THE MACHINE. And here I would advise to read Jacques Ellul's work on this subject, especially his 1980 book, L'Empire du non-sens. L'art et la société technicienne. Everything is already there about what has happened since.<br /><br />On the day when Christ raises His right arm and gives the signal for the Last Judgment, painted EXACTLY AS IT WILL BE BY MICHELANGELO, know, Martin, that you will be among the angels who, at His side, will throw the damned souls into Charon's boat, but will also help the saved souls to reach Paradise.<br /><br />For the time being, we must, a handful, ACT OF RESISTANCE by CREATION ABOVE ALL. Human beings since the Fall have only ever been good at two things: either war or art.<br /><br />And that the Earth where we live, by the Grace of God, be then given back to the non-human animals, plants, minerals and inanimate beings endowed with a soul, i.e. THE PERFECT CREATION OF GOD, of which I greet each dawn that he grants me, as well as to my rare angels still alive. And whom I never cease to thank. Christ, it is of course impossible to thank Him because His divine Sacrifice to save us is so horrific that we can only love Him, without thanking Him, which would be hideous, and which His false church has been preaching ever since its creation by that damned Peter who, as He had foretold, denied Him THREE TIMES before His humiliation and condemnation as the Son of Man. Just as He had intended.<br /><br />Congratulations again on this article, Martin, I will read the one you refer to tomorrow because there is so much to say each time that I cannot get any work done.<br /><br />THANK YOU.<br /><br />Delphine, University of Bordeaux, FranceDelphine Costedoathttps://univ-bordeaux.academia.edu/DelphineCostedoatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-54051970368408680302021-11-02T12:21:52.454-04:002021-11-02T12:21:52.454-04:00Dear Martin,
This is a remarkable text, as always...Dear Martin,<br /><br />This is a remarkable text, as always, but moreover it is concise and in few words opens the keys to so many concepts and worlds that its richness is therefore inexhaustible.<br /><br />I agree, as a Frenchwoman, in every respect with you: my father, an eminent historian AND geopolitologist, never failed to point out that D-DAY, which in France we called and still call "the Liberation", was in fact, and as the Americans call it "justly", one might say, the triumphant advent of the "Invasion" of Europe by US culture. With its cohort of chewing gum, cola, burgers and so on. As a child during the Second World War in Bordeaux, where I now live, he had learned to spot what kind of aircraft were flying over the city in case of an alert. The planes of our 'best enemies', the UK Rosbifs, flew low, taking risks, in the face of German WFD, while the US planes flew VERY HIGH to avoid that WFD, and didn't give a damn about dropping their bombs on either innocent civilians or German military installations.<br /><br />As for what happened next in recent US history, it is a string of ignominies that few countries in the world have matched. The current demon Biden, with the camp he is having built next to the hideous torture camp at Guantanamo, this new detention camp, also hideous, and destined for migrants, notably Haitians and Mexicans but obviously many others, surpasses even Trump in hideousness. What I sensed on the SAME DAY OF HIS OATH, on the Bible which asked nothing of this country of damned, degenerate people, the dregs of Europe and the world, via the despicable Ellis Island in the 20th century, but also and of course from the time of its foundation, WITH THE HELP OF FRANCE. Of course, the influx of migrants who were among the most heavenly minds and spirits in the world into this cursed land that eradicated the so-called "native" peoples with alcohol after having simply murdered most of them, makes New York, in particular, and the East Coast of this cursed country, but also other places, blessed.<br /><br />It is because they 'kidnapped' from Europe the most wonderful thing it had in terms of thinkers and artists of all fields that the USA can boast a culture. If you can still talk about 'culture', anywhere, today.<br /><br />Well, enough of that, I'm tired of it. Fortunately, Martin, you are here, with your European background, your stay in Paris to study art, while all your peers confined themselves to their narrow-minded and stupid "communities", the concept of "community" not existing in France, for example. Yes, you are there, with your thought, your writing and your SPLENDID art, and soon, as you and I have planned, you will be exhibited in France and in Europe, not by the merchants of the Temple like those who have already exhibited you, but by friends of mine who sacrifice as little as possible to this "altar".<br /><br />(continued below)Delphine Costedoathttps://univ-bordeaux.academia.edu/DelphineCostedoatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-5655924856498098252019-08-02T19:36:30.718-04:002019-08-02T19:36:30.718-04:00I think that this is one of my best blog posts I think that this is one of my best blog posts Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.com